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05-17-2009, 10:37 AM
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Peter – Thank you for that excellent description of the kit and the background information on the specific vehicle represented, with additional thanks for Charlie C. adding his unbeatable expertise and Doug and Jim for their recollections (Jim: there is a 94th Aero restaurant near the Silver Spring Airport in Maryland. No ordnance, but lots of airplanes and reproductions of airplanes outside).
The Quad Fifty halftrack was also used widely during the Korean War. If I may be permitted to add my bit by quoting from two chapters of one of my books (US Army Forces in the Korean War, Oxford, UK: Osprey Publications, 2005): Antiaircraft weapons. The 90-mm M2 antiaircraft artillery (AAA) guns, towed by the M4 high speed tractor, were intended for defense against high altitude aircraft, but were used as field artillery early in the war. The self-propelled AAA automatic weapons (AW) battalions were each equipped with some combination of the multiple gun motor carriage M16A1 (Quad Fifty), which consisted of four .50-caliber machines guns mounted in a halftrack, and the 40mm M19A1 Multiple Gun Motor Carriage (Dual 40): two 40-mm Bofors guns mounted in an open turret on an M24 light tank chassis. The Quad Fifty could also be mounted in a 2½-ton truck or, as the M55, on a trailer. In at least one case in the 25th Division, Quad Fifties were also mounted on M39 Armored Utility Vehicles. The multiple motor gun carriage M15A1 was a 37mm gun and two .50-caliber machine guns mounted coaxially in a half-track. Many of these were in storage in Japan and the Tokyo Ordnance Depot modified them, replacing the 37-mm gun with a 40-mm Bofors. Mobile AAA AW battalions were equipped with single 40-mm Bofors guns towed by 2½-ton trucks and with M55 Quad Fifty trailers. [Pages 53-54.] Static warfare. . . . The divisional AAA AW Battalions dispersed their Quad Fifty and twin 40mm automatic weapons along the line. The massive firepower of these weapons led the Chinese to refer to the quad .50s as “running water.” [Page 48.] Don Last edited by Don Boose; 05-17-2009 at 10:40 AM. 
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05-17-2009, 11:09 PM
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A review and build is in the works. I asked about the color because It appears to be very dark almost black. Jim Nunn
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