Recent content by John Wear

The USMC shipped their tanks to Okinawa. Then some went to the West Coast.

I signed up for this forum because someone was talking about tanks in Vietnam. I am a long time member of the USMC Vietnam Tankers Association. When people (like Dye) talk trash about tanks, they need to be corrected. Perhaps you have had better results finding records of the medals that...

No reason for saying that no M-60s were deployed in Vietnam. Oh wait! I "offended" you by using capital letters??????

I respectfully disagree.

Dale Dye mentions NVA tanks attacking the Lang Vei Special Forces camp. He neglected to also report on the one and only tank-on-tank battle that took place further south at the Ben Het Special Forces camp. Three M-48 tanks from the US Army 69th Armor took on several NVA PT-76 amphibious tanks...

Yes, when the UN or some other "snowflake" international governmental organization decided that napalm was "cruel and inhumane" it was forbidden to be deployed in war.

Dale Dye is a prolific writer of fairly good fiction. As far as I know, he never took on the role of infantry officer in Vietnam. He was a reporter for Stars & Stripes newspaper...or another publication. I spend a fairly good amount of time inside of a US Marine M-67A2 flame thrower tank...

There were NO M-60 tanks deployed in Vietnam.