I'm fairly new to the group and was wondering if there was anyone around the Omaha, Nebraska or Des Moines, Iowa areas? I basically live between the two...
Hey all, Was just chatting with Tim at Gomi Designs and has has informed me they are back after unexpected problems with their server. So if you`r looking for...
So I notice that in each platoon you have the HQ and 3 x Rifle squads my question,is there an M-79 Blooper in each squad? I've read that there was only one in...
... only one in each platoon. Yes, one per squad. Army had one per fireteam (two per squad). C.M. White Cataloguing Department The Library University of East...
Thanks, and just to confirm it: "A Marine rifle platoon had 47 men. The three 14-man squads had three four-man fire teams plus a squad leader and a grenadier...
I know there was such a battle at An Loc. Not sure how many others there were. And yes, it was during Tet. There seem to have been an opportunity towards the...
Actually there were only two instance of US Armor agianst NVA armor on in 1968 when an USMC M48 engaged and destroyed a PT76 near the DMZ, and in 1969 with the...
Don't forget Australian Armor events as well. jIMSKI _____ From: Vietgaming@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Vietgaming@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Arrigo Velicogna ...
Tom, An loc was in april-jun 72, the T55 you refers are the one ramming open the gate of the presidential palace in saigon in 75 (pretty famous picture, even...
australian armor was used mainyl in infantry support role. most notable: Operation Matilda, the battle for coral and the action at Bin Ha Arrigo ... From:...
In a message dated 10/13/2008 3:56:56 P.M. Mountain Daylight Time, arrigov@... writes: Tom, An loc was in april-jun 72, the T55 you refers are the one...
Try this again.... In a message dated 10/13/2008 3:56:56 P.M. Mountain Daylight Time, arrigov@... writes: Tom, An loc was in april-jun 72, the T55 you...
At An Loc there were Pt76, Type 63 (the chinese version) and T54-55 I have some articles from Armor and some US air force and US Army material with a lot of...
None that I ever heard of. They would over-run Special Forces Bases with T-76 tanks. When they invaded Annam, we countered with Airmobile anti-tank. There may...
Alex Newman
zennine@...
Oct 14, 2008 1:45 am
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Think you mean PT-76 tanks. I have not heard of US versus NVA armoured actions either. However, had the US plan to invade Cambodia and Laos (the full scale...
Again: two known instances of armor vs armor engagement between US units and NVA tanks: 1968 on the DMZ (reported in Marine tanks battles in Vietnam by Oscar...
I know its a bit of a sideways leap from this theme but I remember watching news footage from the 1979 Chinese invasion of Vietnam and there were some large...
Nick, you are spot on on australin use of armor, especially when they got them in sufficent number. US Army use of armor was much more varied. There was a...
My inexperience is, as usual, the source of overblown enthusiasm! I MUST make a set of modular terrain to play out my FNG solo campaign games in 20mm. Before I...
Errrm... In regard to GM 100, there is one point I would correct. GM 100 was initially assigned a company of M5 light tanks (3rd Squadron, 5th Cuirassiers...
_http://minimi.co.uk/pirates/junk.htm_ (http://minimi.co.uk/pirates/junk.htm) this looks good for both 20mm and 28mm ... [Non-text portions of this message...
I was wondering if anyone would care to offer opinion on usability of the table here http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/indirect.htm I decided to use it...
I looked over the table. Enough information do just an artillery game. The NVA would move into 50 to 100 meters of your normally night defensive position, and...
Alex Newman
zennine@...
Oct 25, 2008 8:02 pm
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Hi, It might be good to contact veteran's lists about how effective mortar fire was. We, were re-enacting Russian WWII with an 82mm Morta at an Vietnam event,...
Not sure what you are asking here. Are you suggesting that IDF assets be limited by that table? As that site says, we were instructed that MSDs are not a...
Matt, the point is, that it is not recommended to fire artillery, or even mortars, onto one's own troops. Doing so is a last resort of an infantry commander,...
Thank you for clearing this up, I hope. In the Army we had these recommendations, and what it tells you is that if you call in an air strike or arty support...
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