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Early 1st Armored Regiment Photos


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Shown is a small grouping of photos taken by a member of 1st AR soon after unit creation. Sadly there are not dates or captions.

First up, M2A4 light tank. Note that painted on the turret is the pennant from their former unit, Company B, 1st Cav. Regiment.

 

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Light tanks lined up. Notice that the tank in the foreground has dummy guns mounted on the turret. This was a new one for me!

 

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Three crewman pose in front of their tank. Coveralls are the uniform of the day. The soldier in the center (vehicle commander?) wears the early "Doughnut" tanker's helmet from padded ring.

 

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Nice close-up of the front of a vehicle and driver. I interpret the markings as B (Company B), 1 (1st AR), 4 (tank #4) Thoughts and comments are more than welcome.

 

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The Peep in #10 is a Willy’s MA.

 

The two jeeps in the foreground of post #12 are both first series Ford GP’s.

 

All three preceded the standardize MB & GPW respectively.

 

Early Stewies. Nice photos!

 

The first GP The Pigmy was delivered for testing 23 Nov 1940.

 

 

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Thanks vonmoen,

I recall that at one time you were looking for early photos of Ft. Knox. I believe I have quite a few from this batch that I'll post along with the vehicle and tank photos.

As for post #3 I believe you are "on target" about the radio command tank.

All the best,

Mike

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