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I came upon some interesting pics of the Clarkair bulldozer while researching an article I'm writing for the Pintlehook newsletter. I thought I'd share them with everybody as it shows how the bulldozer was stowed in a Horsa glider (OP Market-Garden?) as well as some very interesting pics of an experimental trailer to allow the CA-1 to be towed by a Jeep. Quite a load for the doughty Jeep as the bulldozer alone weighs over 4,000 lbs!
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At the same time that you were posting this thread about the Clark Airborne Dozer some one e-mailed me a link to this Airforce web site. Take a look at page 16.
http://www.afcesa.af.mil/shared/medi...070606-026.pdf Cheers
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Here's Phil's picture by itself.
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I remember reading that it was planned for the US 825th Aviation Engineer Bn to take some of these dozers by glider on Operation Market Garden in order to build an airstrip near Nijmegan, which was to be used by Allied fighters. I think their mission was scrubbed at the last moment.
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heres a picture of just the dozer
I think its a clarkair
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I'm sure you're right abut the 825th. There is scant reference to an "American Engineer unit" that was to be flown in to construct an airfield after members of the 261 Field Park Co. of the Royal Engineers used their Clarkair to clear the landing zone. Events overtook the troops in Arnhem and the Clarkair was never used ![]()
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Thanks for the pic. Yep, it's definitely a Clarkair CA-1 and it's long ways from home. Any ideas how it ended up in Dubbo?
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not really .It belongs to a private collector in the area . He owns somewhere between 40-50 old tractors and dozers of varied marque and description. Havent actually met him
It is possible however that he might have aquired it when the Dubbo RAAF stores depot closed and auctioned off some gear about 20 years ago. They had some interesting items there apparently ![]()
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Here's an interesting Clarkair photo towing a scraper. The caption read:Clark Airborne CA-1 towing a CAB-1 LaPlant Choate Pan Scraper —Burma in the Spring/Summer of 1944.
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Great pic Dave, thanks! With your permission, I'll use it in my article. Most of the pics I've downloaded from the 'net are quite small...15-16 kbyte range and don't enlarge well. The very versatile CA-1 really got around as I've found pics of it in Burma, Guadalcanal, and N.W.E....as well as Oz (thanks aj). I'll upload some more pics: here's the Clarkair in a C-47 at Ramsbury airfield preparatory to D Day.
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Here's an interesting shot of a Clarkair CA-1 after it was ejected from it's glider at landing zone "Broadway" during the night of April 5-6 1944. The bulldozer was undamaged and no injuries resulted from the unplanned ejection.
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...you can turn the Clarkair into it's own with the addition of stub axles.
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This last pic is of the United States Forestry Service "Trail Tractor" which was the predecessor to the Clarkair CA-1. This picture was taken from the British Columbia provincial archives suggesting that the Trail Tractor saw service in B.C. I will investigate this connection further and ask for any info that any of you B.C.ers may be aware of.
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The post "Bulldozer question" resurrected my interest in the ClarkAir dozer. I knew I had seen the stub axle that was shown in the picture in my earlier post before. A lengthy search led me to a picture I had archived about LSTs. There on the shore is a piece of unidentified kit which looks like it has the same stub axles as installed on the CA-1. Can anyone identify what is shown in the picture? It looks like a piece of Engineer kit to me. Thanks, Derek.
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The picture you have is of a road grader, a grading blade with fine adjustments mounted between the front pair of stearing wheels and a quad set of power wheels under the engine. The driver is just ahead of the engine so he can control the blade.
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As Homer Simpson is wont to say, "DOH!" There I was thinking I was looking at some unknown tractor with a scraper in tow. I missed the front wheel completely. I'm a wee bit of a berk tonight! Thanks Kent.
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This picture was taken last year in The Liberation Park at Overloon, The Netherlands.
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Here is a shot of a Clarkair with British markings on the top of a Horsa ramp. It was taken at the RE Museum at Chatham.
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Great picture Boddie, thank you! Did it mention anything about the units that used that Clark-Air? I know the 286th Field Park Co., R.E. landed in Normandy at 0335 hours with two dozers and proceeded to clear the LZ of crashed gliders and other impedimentia so as to allow the 6th Airlanding Brigade and their Divisional troops access. Derek.
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Edit: link added: http://www.remuseum.org.uk/campaign/...aign_6adiv.htm Last edited by Bodston; 17-03-08 at 13:24. |
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The 261 field park company used one clarkair in operation market garden. it was brought in by glider and driven a few miles into oosterbeek were it was parked by a fence at 9th field company hq never to be used again, it's hydraulics were demolished when the sappers withdrew over the rhine.
i'm not sure about the next bit but if i understand it correctly then the clarkair currently on display in the airbornemuseum hartenstein in oosterbeek is the original bulldozer that was left behind there. Wim
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Wim, I don't believe the bulldozer in the museum is the same as the one that arrrived on Landing Zone "Z" on Monday, Sept. 18, 1944. The one in the Airborne Museum 'Hartenstein' was bought in 1999 from a seller in Belgium and as far as I know has never been presented as such. Interestingly, the original Clark-air is shown in a German newsreel taken in Oosterbeek after the germans re-occupied the town. Derek.
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Hello Derek,
New information in the form of fellow KTR-member henk minne has come to light. The clarkair of the airbornemuseum is actually purchased from a belgium scrap-dealer and is not the original arnhem example. Wim
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