Left Behind by junge1

Photography • Military • posted on Jan 14, 2013

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Description

This American M.48 tank is on static display in the outside yard of the 'War Remnants Museum' on Vo Van Tan Street in Saigon. The following information is given on the sign in front of the tank. "Main Battle Tank; Weight: 47.2 tons; Maximum Speed: 48 km/h; Armanent: 90mm gun with coaxial 7.62mm machine gun; Cupola-mounted 50-cal machine gun; Infrared fire-control equipment and xenon searchlight; U.S. Army had some 370 M.48 A3 tanks in Vietnam by July 1969". The 'War Remnants Museum' has become the most popular museum in Saigon with Western tourists. It used to be called 'Museum of American War Crimes' but as a results of objections, mostly from American tourists, it was changed to 'War Crimes Museum', according to the 'Lonely Planet, Vietnam, 1995' tour guide. As can be seen it has changed again. Whatever it is or was called, it chronicles Vietnam's struggle for independence, mainly from the French but mostly from the Americans. By the time we visited this museum I was already so fed up with the slanted information provided, I didn't bother to visit any of the four floors of pictures and information. This picture was taken on 22 August 2012, Sig....

Comments (29)

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MagikUnicorn

3:14PM | Mon, 14 January 2013

Gorgeous

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Cyve

3:15PM | Mon, 14 January 2013

Wonderfu shoot ... as always !!!

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jocko500

3:16PM | Mon, 14 January 2013

cool shot of history

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tigertim

3:24PM | Mon, 14 January 2013

Cool shot... that M48 seems to have had a bit of a clean up since I last saw it!

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UVDan

3:36PM | Mon, 14 January 2013

Nice to see they are taking such good care of it.

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flavia49

4:35PM | Mon, 14 January 2013

excellent image

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Darkwish

4:54PM | Mon, 14 January 2013

Very nice shot!

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drifterlee

5:17PM | Mon, 14 January 2013

Really cool old tank!!

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sandra46

5:29PM | Mon, 14 January 2013

GREAT CAPTURE

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Faemike55

5:34PM | Mon, 14 January 2013

as always, the history is written by the victors Great capture

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weesel

6:51PM | Mon, 14 January 2013

I'm sure CODEPINK would approve of the museum's tone. Neat photo.

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auntietk

7:46PM | Mon, 14 January 2013

Bill is "blah-blah-blah" about the differences between the M.48A-1 and A-2 and A-3 and gas and diesel ... thanks so much, my friend! LOL!

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Minda

10:43PM | Mon, 14 January 2013

excellent shot sig.

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kgb224

11:41PM | Mon, 14 January 2013

Stunning capture my friend. God Bless.

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bmac62

11:43PM | Mon, 14 January 2013

Dang, other than the bummed up fender, this tank looks as good as the five I had in my tank platoon as a second lieutenant at Fort Irwin, California in 1962.

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