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To: unclewest who wrote (116707)5/28/2005 4:40:37 AM
From: jjkirk  Read Replies (1) of 793914
 
UW, re: tank/inf phone...I remember having them on the Pattons, too...also had external I/C phones on our helos except for the Cobra...jj

"...Acknowledging that earlier US tanks did feature a phone at the rear to allow infantry contact with the crew, Keating said: "When the Abrams went into production that box went away, except on the Marines' [Abrams]. The Marines have always kept that. So we just took the existing Marine Corps telephone. And since the tanks basically have the hookup back there we just took that right out of the government inventory and put it on.

"They realised that when you're in a street fight it's better to have a telephone and just direct the tank gunfire than trying to talk to them on the radio." "

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