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M34 Active duty

msgjd

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A forklift loading ammo crates? Wow what a concept. Where the heck were they when my armored BN was in the field? I lost count how many hundreds of 105mm crates we loaded, unloaded, reloaded, unloaded again, and lastly, load and unload the spent dunnage, in a day, all by hand. Apparently our griping eventually worked, because after I had been assigned to oversee the fuel section, the ammo haulers at least had an all-terrain forklift available to load live rounds, but unloading and dunnage was still a hand job. Famous words at MTOC (army truck school) ,, " A driver does not handle his load, he is only there to supervise the loading and unloading." Okay, yeah maybe if he is driving a dump truck or the mess truck. . lol
 
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foxtrot

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Did you guys notice these M34s have the same diagonal gussets at the outer wheel well openings as the GMC M135s? Must be a later production thing, like 1951.
Photo from 1953.
It did not have the tailgate with the integrated step.


On this last photo, I think the photographer also wanted to show us in the background the armament pointed due east.
 
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