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Dennis_Smith · ***Power User*** Offline Joined: Mar 17, 2006 Posts: 192

That's a great map, armyjunk2. If I'd only had it 25 years ago.... Sad

It was probably available, if only I had known where to look. A lot of those trails became the roads that we knew. And I'll bet the ones that had fallen from use were still visible.

I'm very interested in learning more. Please e-mail with any information that you can share.

DennisMenace56(takethisout)@bellsouth.net I see people using the (takethisout) all the time. Guess it keeps spammers from calling?

Thanks, Dennis

piney

Is that like Burlington?
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armyjunk2 · ***Power User*** Offline Joined: Sep 22, 2006 Posts: 1416

Dennis, I sent you a set of the 1921 and the 1935 maps to the Harbor Defenses of Panama, let me know if you get them ok. I have plans for most of the Ordnance related building there also.........

Dennis_Smith · ***Power User*** Offline Joined: Mar 17, 2006 Posts: 192

Got the maps Armyjunk2. Thanks!

Looking at maps published in the '20s and '30s is like going into a time warp. Stuff marked "proposed" was the base where I lived, 60 years later. Stuff marked "existing" was the stuff that we stumbled across and marveled at, deep in jungle.

Our military maps didn't show anything there, or just said "ruins". It took the advent of the internet before I found out the true extent of all those mysterious ruins!

Dennis_Smith · ***Power User*** Offline Joined: Mar 17, 2006 Posts: 192

My apologies for stepping so hard on the forum threads. Hopefully, I'll be called back from lay-off soon. I know you guys will be glad, too! Cool

Neil_Baumgardner

A couple of M1879A4 guns on M2A3 (WWII era?) carriagees at Fort Jackson...

This one was at the Fort Jackson museum

Couldnt make too much off the breach - except 1918...

This one was across the street

Neil

armyjunk2 · ***Power User*** Offline Joined: Sep 22, 2006 Posts: 1416

thank you neil

Neil_Baumgardner

No problem - did you already have them on the list?

Neil

armyjunk2 · ***Power User*** Offline Joined: Sep 22, 2006 Posts: 1416

1302 and 1303 but no pictures

Neil_Baumgardner

Armyjunk2, here's some arty from the 45th Infantry Division Museum in OKC - thanks to my friend Kevin...

ID these for us if you would!

Another M1897 on an M2 carriage?

M1905 3" field gun

Not sure which era or type this is....

But it seems to also have a really impressive carriage

Two actually?

Neil

bsmart

That looks like either an 8" gun or a 240mm Howitzer. Yes, it is a two load piece (They have a gun and recoil system on the travel carriage at Aberdeen but not the carriage) I wonder what the tires are on the transport for that? Aberdeen had a hard time finding tires the right size when they needed them. Turned out the Russians still used that size on some large vehicles. So the display at Aberdeen has Russian tires Shocked

. I wonder if we can claim it is Reverse lend lease

armyjunk2 · ***Power User*** Offline Joined: Sep 22, 2006 Posts: 1416

M1918A1 Howitzer No.218

75mm M1897A4 ABS No.22267

M1902 3" field gun SN 90

Gun, 8in., M1; Carriage, Gun, 8in., M2 World War II

bsmart

The muzzle of the 8" has me a little baffled. Any ideas what it is?

JimWeb

- bsmart

The muzzle of the 8" has me a little baffled. Any ideas what it is?

Looks like it was used with a barrel insert for testing ammunition of some sort.

Cool

Neil_Baumgardner

M1897A4 75mm field gun

M1920M1 155mm field howitzer - appears to be one of the oldest surviving items in the museum collection. The museum catalogue system includes a year along with the item number. Most date from the 1940s - this one is dated 1920...

PaK 97/38 7.5cm - French 75 converted to an anti-tank gun

Neil

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