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Post by Joe Gopan » Sun May 20, 2012 11:10 am

Appears to be a Sikorsky R-4 Helicopter being transfered. !st Air Commando, Burma?
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Re: GMC

Post by Joe Gopan » Sun May 20, 2012 2:02 pm

That R-4 weighs an even 2000# assembled, and without rotors engine and misc hardware it still kills approx 1400-1500# knocked down, quite a bit of weight to handle that way by hand. The 1st Air Commandos made good use of that helicopter.
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Re: GMC

Post by Joe Gopan » Sun May 20, 2012 2:18 pm

One of our Jeep mechanics, David McQuarrie, at our business back in the 50's told of transporting CCKW loads of German POW's, and some would get rowdy and rock the trucks while enroute to the prison camps.
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Re: GMC

Post by Joe Gopan » Mon May 28, 2012 9:10 am

That is a prewar trailer, I'll bet it gets interesting should the trailer come loose from the CCKW and the breakaway switch activates the brakes.
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