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Possible M4 skin
« on: March 01, 2010, 04:58:00 PM »
My Brigades HQ has a Firefly at the entrance.....I dont know if its the original color but it is almost a red and black skin.


Anyone know if there was a Firefly with a skin like that? Looks pretty cool :salute
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Re: Possible M4 skin
« Reply #1 on: March 01, 2010, 05:12:11 PM »
Picture needed.

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Re: Possible M4 skin
« Reply #2 on: March 01, 2010, 05:18:56 PM »
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Re: Possible M4 skin
« Reply #3 on: March 01, 2010, 05:46:21 PM »
Where at least is your HQ maybe there is pictures of it on the web?

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Re: Possible M4 skin
« Reply #4 on: March 01, 2010, 06:52:55 PM »
My Brigades HQ has a Firefly at the entrance.....I dont know if its the original color but it is almost a red and black skin.


Anyone know if there was a Firefly with a skin like that? Looks pretty cool :salute

Don't ever remember seeing a Firefly at Drum. Must have missed that one.
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Re: Possible M4 skin
« Reply #5 on: March 01, 2010, 06:53:12 PM »
My Brigades HQ has a Firefly at the entrance.....I dont know if its the original color but it is almost a red and black skin.


Anyone know if there was a Firefly with a skin like that? Looks pretty cool :salute

Might want to double check on whether it's a Firefly or some other Sherman variant.  Real surviving Firefly's are rare.
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Re: Possible M4 skin
« Reply #6 on: March 01, 2010, 06:56:20 PM »
I can't find any reference for a tank at Fort Drum, let alone a Firefly.. bet it is a M4/76 variant.
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Re: Possible M4 skin
« Reply #7 on: March 01, 2010, 07:11:11 PM »
Where at least is your HQ maybe there is pictures of it on the web?
Doh... right under your avatar is the location.

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Re: Possible M4 skin
« Reply #8 on: March 01, 2010, 07:14:09 PM »
Don't ever remember seeing a Firefly at Drum. Must have missed that one.
Same...been there a couple times but never saw one.
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Re: Possible M4 skin
« Reply #9 on: March 01, 2010, 07:19:38 PM »
Heres the site for my Brigade I couldnt find any pictures of the HQ.

http://www.drum.army.mil/sites/tenants/division/3BCT/HQ/default.asp


Im 90% sure it is a firefly. FT Drum used to have acouple of Armor divisions at it but someone was smart and made it the home of the light infantry :aok

The units from the 10Th Mountain were made famous in Italy, but that was the Mountain units I dont know about the Armor corps.

Ill get a pic sometime soon....been kinda busy the last 2 weeks doing In-processing and getting thrown around my battalion like a ball.

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Re: Possible M4 skin
« Reply #10 on: March 01, 2010, 07:27:14 PM »
Heres the site for my Brigade I couldnt find any pictures of the HQ.

http://www.drum.army.mil/sites/tenants/division/3BCT/HQ/default.asp


Im 90% sure it is a firefly. FT Drum used to have acouple of Armor divisions at it but someone was smart and made it the home of the light infantry :aok

The units from the 10Th Mountain were made famous in Italy, but that was the Mountain units I dont know about the Armor corps.

Ill get a pic sometime soon....been kinda busy the last 2 weeks doing In-processing and getting thrown around my battalion like a ball.

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If it's to commemorate one of the units that used to be based at the Pine Barracks, it's most likely not a Firefly. Probably as Fencer said, anM4/76mm.
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Re: Possible M4 skin
« Reply #11 on: March 01, 2010, 07:33:56 PM »
If it's to commemorate one of the units that used to be based at the Pine Barracks, it's most likely not a Firefly. Probably as Fencer said, anM4/76mm.
Can it be a new gv?
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Re: Possible M4 skin
« Reply #12 on: March 01, 2010, 08:06:11 PM »
Checked the list of surviving Fireflys in Mark Haywards excellent book on the Firefly.  Only one survivor in the US and it's just a turret mounted on a regular Sherman hull at the Aberdeen Proving Grounds.

Probably an M4/76
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Re: Possible M4 skin
« Reply #13 on: March 01, 2010, 09:00:18 PM »
Yeah that;s what I thought too Guppy.
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Re: Possible M4 skin
« Reply #14 on: March 02, 2010, 06:48:21 AM »
Now I want to take a drive up to Drum and get a photo. But I think I'll wait until the permafrost melts. :)
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