M48 Patton series in obat12

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On further research it seems the USMC got their first M47s in 10/1953 and only kept them until mid 1959.

Seems that as far as the USMC was concerned the if the flame turret was mounted on an M48A1 hull it was an M67A1, if mounted on an M48A3 hull it was an M67A2. The USMC never used the M48, M48A2, or M48A5.

I know the USMC was still using M4A3(105) dozer tanks in Korea. Haven't dug into the Korea-Vietnam era tho.

Also post WW II the USMC got some armor off a scrapped heavy cruiser and made up some armor kits for bulldozers. I understand the stuff was so heavy the suspension had a life expectancy of hours. But, since they were only really concerned with clearing beach obstacles I guess that was acceptable.

In the 80s they got some armor kits for the D7 dozers from the Israelis.

Of course there was the M728 engineer tank with it's dozer blade.

Don,

It'd probably be a major pain in the rear but perhaps gasoline fueled tanks should have their survival rating reduced by one as opposed to diesel fueled.