Morotai

[Lang]

Further Morotai Photos1

Looks like the girls handing out the coffee are American Red Cross. Mix of Australian and American troops getting a drink.

[Lang]

Further Morotai2

[Lang]

More Morotai Photos3

[Lang]

More Morotai Photos4

The photo with the smoke shows how close the Japanese were and they were being bombed or shelled while all the boys are watching.

[Darrell Zinck]

Hi

Nice pics. Interesting to Google Maps/Earth/Streetview some of those pics today to match up features.

Quite the rig on that Matilda. The other 'dozer blades that I have seen on Shermans, Grants, Stuarts, Centaurs etc don't look like that. Field mod or was that an AEV of some sort?

Just being curious.

regards
Darrell

[Lang]

Probably more than a field mod. Is the bloke sitting on the front operating the blade winch?

Lang

[lynx42]

Thanks Lang for the recent lot of photos.

An interesting one is the line up of AIRBORNE GMC's. A quick look at the AWN's shows that approximately 150, GMC, 6x6, 2 1/2 ton, canvas topped special cabin trucks with split diffs are listed between ARN. 89330 and 89487. I found one of these just out of Ballarat a few yours ago and another not far from here. According to the ARN. they were disposed of in 1955.

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Regards Rick.

[motto]

Originally Posted by Lang

Probably more than a field mod. Is the bloke sitting on the front operating the blade winch?

Lang

That would have to be what he is there for. From where the driver sits he wouldn't be able to see a damned thing. What an arrangement!
It's been said that a camel is a horse designed by a committee. This device obviously got the same treatment. Probably the only one built.
As regards the airborne CCKWs, there is an almost intact example in the Lake Salvage yard in Mildura, Victoria. The cargo body has been replaced with a turn table (fifth wheel) but it wears its original paint job and some of its markings. It still has the word AIRBORNE stencilled on the doors.

David