"French Indochina Alligator LvT 4 query" Topic
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| Lord BuettTocks | 09 Jun 2017 3:41 p.m. PST |
I read on Red Star Miniatures blog that the french LvT squadrons had 10 vehicles (1 command, 1 ArV, 6 troop carriers and two LvT (A) 4s).
I have been scouring the Internet looking for photos of the ArV and command variants.
Does anyone have any pics or links to these vehicles?
Here is the link to that blog. link |
| Lord BuettTocks | 09 Jun 2017 3:57 p.m. PST |
How did this get posted twice. It must be that ghost in the machine i have heard so much about. Mr. or Ms. Moderator, please erase one of these duplicate posts.
Thanks. |
| T Labienus | 11 Jun 2017 3:37 a.m. PST |
You have a description of the use of LVT in General Bernard de Bressy account on this page :
link
He says that there was only two sorts of vehicles : LVT 4 and LVT 4A with a 75cm short gun. Seeing your link, it seems to me that the foreign legion officers use the LVT 4A as command vehicle.
Bernard de Bressy doesn't speak of the LVT with 40mm Bofors gun in the same link.
French recovery LVT in Indochina :
US recovery LVT during WWII :
I hope this will help, cheers |
| Lord BuettTocks | 16 Jun 2017 10:08 p.m. PST |
Yes, this helps a lot. Thanks. I sometimes wonder how accurate the info is in the Osprey books. |
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