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[sheepherder]

Originally Posted by MikeP

My buddy and me had a live 08 Maxim we carried around in a 59 olds.

My dad was born in 1904; too young for WW I but he enlisted anyway...Anyhow, he told me a story once about carrying two Spandau machine guns around in the back floor of his old Ford...That would have been around the mid '20's...

According to him, the gov't gave away surplus tanks (minus the turrets & armament) to any farmer who applied for them...This, I think, was in the late 40's...

Here's an old picture-postcard of his unit...he's the one with the 'salty' cover...