16-215 Garand Picture of the Day

[Mark in Rochester]

Does any-one know what happened to the significant numbers of WW2 vintage half tracks of U.S. origin that the Israeli armed forces still had on charge into the 1990s? Are they still in storage in Israel or have they now all been disposed of through scraping/sale? There was an ex Israeli armed forces example on the U.K. show circuit 20 or so years ago. From memory outwardly it looked much like any WW2 example but the Israelis had completed a fairly extensive refurb on it which included, I believe, replacing the original *petrol engine with a modern G.M. diesel unit.

*I stand to be corrected on the engine details.

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Love that big Browning on top. Watching those tracers arc out 1800 yards is awesome (if you got the %$#@& timing right).