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Armor and ground forces of the Allied forces during World War II.
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D-Day dozer tank, 70th TB, Utah, DT-7...real?
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Posted: Friday, November 07, 2008 - 11:01 AM UTC
Hi all,

im pulling together everything needed to build the M4 Dozer tank, DT-7 as illustrated in concords "US ARmord Funnies", and is on a Bison decal sheet (35030). However, i started looking for some references, and so far I am only able to find that there was Dozer tanks from the 70th on Utah, but when looking up info on the 70th (including Zaloga's D-Day Tank Battles, by Concord, and several D-Day books i found on Google books), i can only verify that there was 3 companies..A, B, C. No "Delta" company mentiond anywere. Acording to these sources, C co was the only one with wading trunks...so what happened to D? were they spread out and assigned to other units, so dont show up in the various D-Day books?

The tank has some neat markings, i just want to verify that it existed!

Thanks!
Andy
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Posted: Friday, November 07, 2008 - 01:07 PM UTC
Andy: Yes DT-7 existed along the lines of what Steve depicted. I have seen a photo of it. Steve, as I'm sure you know, is a good stickler for detail and he captures the features correctly.
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Posted: Friday, November 07, 2008 - 08:23 PM UTC
Gday Andy
I think I have read somewhere that the DT-7 basically stood for 'Dozer Tank-7' believe it or not...

Regardless, the decals are accurate based on Bisons take on Steve Zalogas take on the real thing...

A still



Should prove to be what you are looking for, inclusive of some stowage.

Brad
::EDIT:: Apologies, but have just realised the fallen GI in the foreground is in quite a state... Overlooked this until right now
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Posted: Saturday, November 08, 2008 - 01:56 AM UTC

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Hi all,

im pulling together everything needed to build the M4 Dozer tank, DT-7 as illustrated in concords "US ARmord Funnies", and is on a Bison decal sheet (35030). However, i started looking for some references, and so far I am only able to find that there was Dozer tanks from the 70th on Utah, but when looking up info on the 70th (including Zaloga's D-Day Tank Battles, by Concord, and several D-Day books i found on Google books), i can only verify that there was 3 companies..A, B, C. No "Delta" company mentiond anywere. Acording to these sources, C co was the only one with wading trunks...so what happened to D? were they spread out and assigned to other units, so dont show up in the various D-Day books?

The tank has some neat markings, i just want to verify that it existed!

Thanks!
Andy

At the time, the D Company of Medium Battalions was outfitted with Light tanks, that is M5A1s
The few remaining Light Battalions had no D Company
HTH
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Posted: Sunday, November 09, 2008 - 05:11 AM UTC
All, thanks for the picture and infomation!

Anybody know of a good source for the dimentions of the T40 "wiz-bang" rocket lancher mounts? Note that DT-7 had these.

any ideas what is on that stowage? looks like some ammo tubes up top, and maybe a 5gal can on the rear. Ideas what all the folded items are?
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Posted: Sunday, November 09, 2008 - 02:57 PM UTC
yes the company existed, theres a show about a new jersey man in ww2 that was fighting alonside these tanks, i believe it was the njn network. i hope to see a project in the future
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