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vietam gun truck named yankee clippper
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Posted: Friday, March 12, 2004 - 04:20 PM UTC
i have an old military molder magzine from dec of 1984.
and they did a story on the yankee clipper it has a 50 cabliber with a power turret.
this gun truck is sweet.
the guy made it from momograms 2 and a half ton truck
have any of u gusy heard about this guntruck
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Posted: Friday, March 12, 2004 - 04:26 PM UTC
Perhaps Animal has...

I have not, however, ever run into any reference or photo(s) that backed-up that old article...

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Posted: Friday, March 12, 2004 - 04:44 PM UTC
i will try to copy the pics out of the maginze.
i posted cause i thought u gun truck guy would like it,
it make me wanna build a gun truck lol.
and the other name for this truck was road eater
and gunnie thanks for helping me 2 day with that m 21




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Posted: Saturday, March 13, 2004 - 01:53 AM UTC
I have never heard of this truck in either names. I will check with some of my trucker Bros and see if anyone else herd of it. Does the article give a date when this truck was supposed to have existed? If you have this info it would help a lot in trying to track it down. There were over five hundred different gun trucks in Nam at one time or another.
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Posted: Saturday, March 13, 2004 - 03:27 AM UTC
hi animal yes the truck saw service from 1968 to 19 72
it was a convoy protector
it was also called the war wagon but this name came after the use in nam.

4444 th transportation group
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Posted: Saturday, March 13, 2004 - 04:41 AM UTC
I know the truck when it was called the War Wagon. It was assigned to QNSC 27Tans Bn 444 Trans Company. One of my good firends and Bro was the Convoy Commander in this Unit.
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