Gun truck pics

[M1075]

My Dad was going through his Army photos in the attic and found these pics he took. Hope you enjoy. His notes below:

Pleiku Viet Nam 24 Dec 1968 , 541st Trans Co

Gun jeep (M151) equipped with the following;

AN-VRC 47 radio
2 M-60 machine guns
3 M-16 rifles
1 M-79 grenade launcher

Gun truck equipped with the following

2 M-60 machine guns
1 50 caliber machine gun
1 M-79 granade launcher
4 M-16 rifles
1 AN/VRC radio

PS. He says he liked the "Quad 50s" the best.

EDIT: I found this old thread and the pics were gone from the old server crash. I have uploaded them again for viewing.

 

[Westech]

AHHHHHHH gun trucks were m35's also!!!!! I knew it

 

[Monster Man]

that's awesome! thanks so much for sharing. Wetsech, if you take a look in the Member's Rides section under cool deuce pics http://www.steelsoldiers.com/DotNetForum/default.aspx?f=66&m=5616&p=3 I posted a few deuce gun trucks in there. But these two are ones I hadn't ever seen before. I really hope you'll head over to:


http://groups.msn.com/VietnamGunTrucks/


there is a sort of registry, I'm sure they would love to know the locations, names, companies, etc. of these trucks and their drivers.

Great work!
OMG- edit- now this is wild- I was just over there, and low and behold, what do I see?

 

[Deuce-bigalo]

Wow - those are great!!! The only thing is I wonder how many tires they went through. You'd think they would also put a sheet of steel over tha exposed rubber in the rear!!! Anywho, thanks for sharing those cool photos!

John

 

[Monster Man]

Wow - those are great!!! The only thing is I wonder how many tires they went through. You'd think they would also put a sheet of steel over tha exposed rubber in the rear!!! [/quote]
ahhh, the beauty of duals. As said, these things were WAY overloaded (even the 5 tons) with all that steel, and with duals you can just keep going and going

 

[M1075]

A more recent pic of Quad 50 in a duece. Oh my, would I love to have one of these!

 

[gimpyrobb]

Nice! I can finally look at porn while at work!

 

[vtdeucedriver]

M1075, what unit was your dad with in Vietnam???? It ok to foreward these pics to a couple of guys? One of them may be a crewmember on "Kings" I have met 3 guys that have crewed that truck. Its a good pic of her.


Westy.........you should have asked me, I would have told you. Tho not as common as 5 tons, there were quite a few. Most of the "well known" ones were with the 541st Trans Co. as they were a deuce outfit.


Only a couple with quad mounts were with a Transportation unit. Tho the quad 50 was nice, it still did not offer the crew much protection during a ambush. I can only imagine the crew of a Ontos trying to load its recoiless would be much of the same.
Anyways, when you see a quad in the back of a truck, chances are its attached to a Firebase. The dolly system sucked during the monsoon season so they would mount the quads in the back of deuces and 5 tons and move the truck where they needed the quad along the perimiter of the FB.

That last pic of those quads look typical to what they would have on a firebase,

 

[M1075]

Send the pics on.

I think my Dad served in the following roles during 68 & 69

61st company (platoon leader)
563rd trucking company (company commander)
541st transportation officer (s2, s3)

 

[vtdeucedriver]

Sent you a IM.

 

[Uglyranger]

King of the Roads

 

[Barrman]

Hmmm, both of the "Quad -50" trucks look like Gassers. I also notice that one of them has the side panels removed and a Diesel intake mushroom. Intereresting.

Thanks for posting the pictures.

 

[vtdeucedriver]

There both multifuels..............early trucks did not have a stack. The exhaust goes down the bed and out between the duals on the right side.

 

[vtdeucedriver]

Dont forget this version! Tho this was early paint job for the truck. King of the Roads was a differnt truck all together. She was around in 69-70.


Also since I am a big fan of the 541st, I will post a pic of the company sign!!!

 

[vtdeucedriver]

How much of a fan????? All 3 trucks were in the markings of the 541st!!! Two of them were marked up as Gun Trucks before they were made into one. "The Mafia" and "assassians"

 

[uh60]

Thanks to everyone for postin the pictures I enjoyed all of them.