Re: [MV] Normandy Trivia and it goes on and on

From: Ryan M Gill (rmgill@mindspring.com)
Date: Mon Jan 12 2004 - 13:36:59 PST


At 1:13 PM -0800 1/12/04, chance wolf wrote:
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>From: "Ryan M Gill" <rmgill@mindspring.com>
>To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
>Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 12:20 PM
>Subject: Re: [MV] Normandy Trivia and it goes on and on
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>> Heh. I'd be happy with knowing who owned my Dingo and Ferret before
>> me and hearing if anyone knew where the heck my Dingo was during the
>> war. I know where the Ferret was for service, mostly in BAOR, the
>> Dingo is however a mystery.
>
>One of the fellows I work with has a Dingo, and was somehow able to get its
>history direct from the British Government. I have no idea if one can still
>do that as this would've been a good 20 years ago.

Sure it's not a Ferret? The Dingo's history is very spotty. All the
Bovington Tank museum has is the Contract cards. All that stuff was
handed over to Bovington long ago by the War Department.

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