We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2010 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/another_first.html Sat, 24 Mar 2012 15:44:25 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2012 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Remember when I predicted we'd be Number 1 in Google for "T-128 Anti-Tank Gun"? S-C-O-O-O-O-R-R-R-E! So much for self-aggrandizement. Back to keeping John flummoxed your online source for winning at "Trivial Pursuit 2007." Yesterday's Whatziss guesses were close (as in, Screw/Auger, Mud, 1 each), but the stogie stays in the wrapper. You drill a hole with an auger and then remove it to insert something. In this case, the thing stays put. It's a screw anchor for a Scruple Lighthouse. Oooops. Make that "Screw Pile" Lighthouse. Dang quadrifocals... Oh-kayyy, so far the Great Rolling Whatziss Contest has served to amuse... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/another_first.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/another_first.html Fri, 26 Jan 2007 00:03:41 -0600 True... But I could put a 105mm on a dunebuggy and it still wouldn't be a tank (hints of a whatzis I have in mind...) But heck, I don't know. I never heard of one of these things before this, so you can call it whatever you want, I'll go for it... ;-) http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/another_first.html#comment-55894 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/another_first.html#comment-55894 Mon, 29 Jan 2007 02:55:54 -0600 Dunno if you could call it a tankette -- that breed were usually beefed-up machinegun carriers, and the CTMS-1TBI *does* have a main gun. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/another_first.html#comment-55845 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/another_first.html#comment-55845 Sat, 27 Jan 2007 21:18:00 -0600 Chris, Well, you're better at this than me. I never heard of the M22 before, but it was that tank that led me to a website with pics of the Marmon-Herrington CTMS-1TB1. If BillT ever gives them back you'll see where I ended up. I just googled the heck out of the M22 an found one site with the Marmon-Herrington name, and voila, there it was. To be honest until this week, I thought I was pretty sharp re: US tanks, WWII and later, but seemingly not. I'd never heard of the CTMS either. But I agree about it being a "tankette." I just called it what i saw it listed as, though. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/another_first.html#comment-55830 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/another_first.html#comment-55830 Sat, 27 Jan 2007 15:25:02 -0600 Sanger, I didn't forget about the M-22 Locust airborne tank. In army nomenclature of the time it was asuper light tank. Personally I think even that is somewhat generous, it is really a tankette, the army just didn't want to own up to that fact. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/another_first.html#comment-55819 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/another_first.html#comment-55819 Sat, 27 Jan 2007 01:29:33 -0600 Ok you all kept takling google which really messed me up, so according to Stuart A History of the American Light Tank Volume 1 by R. P. Hunnicutt published by Presidio Press 1992 page 217, this it the Marmon-Herrington CTMS-1TB1 produced for the Netherlands Purchasing Commission. Cant fool me. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/another_first.html#comment-55817 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/another_first.html#comment-55817 Fri, 26 Jan 2007 22:29:02 -0600 Looks something like one of the Marmon-Herrington USMC eval tanks, but some details are puzzling. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/another_first.html#comment-55816 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/another_first.html#comment-55816 Fri, 26 Jan 2007 22:22:37 -0600 Chris, if it helps: You missed at least one of the M-series light tanks, and the one you missed will give you a clue to the one in the picture. I'd never heard of it before, but this week has shown me there's a lot I don't know about army stuff... [/abiding shame] http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/another_first.html#comment-55813 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/another_first.html#comment-55813 Fri, 26 Jan 2007 21:59:33 -0600 Dang! As a Florida person I shoulda caught the Screw-Pile notion! George Meade, the old goggle-eyed snappin' turtle Engineer, and builder of lighthouses in the Keys, (most still standing) and victor at Gettysburg, and all! http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/another_first.html#comment-55809 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/another_first.html#comment-55809 Fri, 26 Jan 2007 20:16:25 -0600 Me thinks it my be Light Tank T-4E something or other. Remember US light Tanks go M-1, M-2, M-3, M-5, M-24, M-41, M-551, M-8. That last one never being adopted but its' gun and autoloader finding their way onto the Stryker AGS variant. The autoloader being an out growth of the FMC jobber used on the Navy's MK 45 mount. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/another_first.html#comment-55806 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/another_first.html#comment-55806 Fri, 26 Jan 2007 19:23:44 -0600 AW1 Tim, Not an M2, I called that one days ago, for the same reason, then realized I was wrong. The spacing between the two roadwheel pairs is too narrow for an M2, and there was never an M2/M3/M-anything that had that forward and upper hull design. I found it eventually, but it took time... too much time, actually... [sigh] http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/another_first.html#comment-55804 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/another_first.html#comment-55804 Fri, 26 Jan 2007 18:37:27 -0600 I was in the 3rd row for Screwpile Lighthouse's bantamweight title shot. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/another_first.html#comment-55800 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/another_first.html#comment-55800 Fri, 26 Jan 2007 16:50:21 -0600 Actually, I was thinking it looked like one of the one's the NAzi's used to bulldoze Poland. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/another_first.html#comment-55792 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/another_first.html#comment-55792 Fri, 26 Jan 2007 14:40:38 -0600 http://www.wwiivehicles.com/usa/tanks-light/m2.asp Respects,]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/another_first.html#comment-55790 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/another_first.html#comment-55790 Fri, 26 Jan 2007 14:33:50 -0600 Are none of the rest of you slackers even trying? Hmmm, mebbe it's time for a hint, Bill. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/another_first.html#comment-55788 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/another_first.html#comment-55788 Fri, 26 Jan 2007 13:44:20 -0600 supposed to work. Displaying the [alt] tag contents as mouseovers is a rotten dirty nonstandard HTML trick played on web-developers and web-users everywhere by MS Internet Destroyer. O joy! Now I know how to make my own webpage images display mouseover-titles in all browsers. And I can pass on the word, so that (hopefully) others can make their image-labels readable by non-MS browsers. Thanks, AFSis. ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/another_first.html#comment-55781 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/another_first.html#comment-55781 Fri, 26 Jan 2007 13:21:51 -0600 > the color of Ozzie boots. I thought Ozzie boots were black, like the tanks and pants... Now that would be a Kiwi color, right? And yeah, too, I missed the mouseover titles (thanks AFS) "Hi, I'm a cruel, sadistic Aviator(ret.)" (but velly funny) http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/another_first.html#comment-55770 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/another_first.html#comment-55770 Fri, 26 Jan 2007 11:50:54 -0600 Bill... love the mouse-over picture titles. LMAO http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/another_first.html#comment-55764 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/another_first.html#comment-55764 Fri, 26 Jan 2007 10:53:07 -0600 Yer right, Sanger - that's more the color of Ozzie boots. (Red Herring Alert!) http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/another_first.html#comment-55762 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/another_first.html#comment-55762 Fri, 26 Jan 2007 10:12:03 -0600 > I don't suppose it's Polish? No, I don't think it's Kiwi brand. And I've never seen it that color. :-D http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/another_first.html#comment-55755 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/another_first.html#comment-55755 Fri, 26 Jan 2007 09:05:58 -0600 >'n for the record and bragging rights - I id'd *with* nomenclature *before* Sanger did. Yeah, I already *graciously* acknowledged that. An I think I spell just fine, TYVM. (I need an emoticon for mope) > It's important to me to beat Sanger at things like this. I dunno why, it just is. 8^D I think you've had google-envy since I first ID'd that "Ballisticlean" bullet in Jan 05. :-> But I do get credit for having half a clue about the screw-jobbie. "Sand-anchor for something, not so much an augur (not really cut to move dirt) as something meant to stay stuck where it was put..." Ha, I knew it! The shallow spiral reminded me of one type of anchors we used to use for our DF antennas guy wires. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/another_first.html#comment-55754 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/another_first.html#comment-55754 Fri, 26 Jan 2007 09:03:26 -0600 abused the privilege... but they sure whipped by pretty fast!]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/another_first.html#comment-55745 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/another_first.html#comment-55745 Fri, 26 Jan 2007 07:38:49 -0600 awful lot like an M42 Duster twin 40mm AA vehicle from the Korean War. ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/another_first.html#comment-55744 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/another_first.html#comment-55744 Fri, 26 Jan 2007 06:52:28 -0600 Trias - Polish? Hardly -- no bayonet stud on the main gun... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/another_first.html#comment-55742 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/another_first.html#comment-55742 Fri, 26 Jan 2007 06:25:49 -0600 Shush! They're supposed to think you're flummoxed! http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/another_first.html#comment-55741 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/another_first.html#comment-55741 Fri, 26 Jan 2007 06:22:54 -0600 'n for the record and bragging rights - I id'd *with* nomenclature *before* Sanger did. So I can't play this round, either. It's important to me to beat Sanger at things like this. I dunno why, it just is. 8^D http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/another_first.html#comment-55739 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/another_first.html#comment-55739 Fri, 26 Jan 2007 05:45:58 -0600 I don't suppose it's Polish? http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/another_first.html#comment-55737 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/another_first.html#comment-55737 Fri, 26 Jan 2007 02:00:58 -0600 z-z-z-z-z-z-z-z-z-z-z-z-z-z-z *snort* -z-z-z-z-z-z-z-z-z-z http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/another_first.html#comment-55736 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/another_first.html#comment-55736 Fri, 26 Jan 2007 01:39:33 -0600