From: Rick v100 (rickv100@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Mar 23 2006 - 05:56:13 PST
I toought that is was discovered that they were
rigging the tests on it. Plus the Sgt York came out
when they were starting to field the M1 so the other
arguement was that the chassis was going to be phased
out and components would be more expensive.
Rick
--- "Hutterer, John (MPAU)"
<john.hutterer@smiths-medical.com> wrote:
>
>
> Rick,
>
> We have a SGT York AAA SP Gun at our museum. I have
> heard two stories
> about why it was not put into service. One story
> says that the system
> was completely inaccurate and could not be depended
> upon. The other
> story says that it was very accurate, but used
> ammunition so fast that
> it couldn't be adequately supplied. Any idea which
> story is true? I
> haven't look too closely at the system, but I do
> know that the "gunner"
> had to crawl into the rear of the turret, through a
> small set of double
> doors. He was wedged into a very small space with
> his back against the
> doors and the computer screen and controls jammed
> into his chest. As I
> understand it, the rest of that huge turret was the
> auto-loading
> mechanism for the guns, and the ammunition storage,
> plus all of the
> electronics that were needed for the radar systems.
> I think that the
> turret only held a couple of hundred rounds of
> ammunition, but I haven't
> looked at the manual so I can't say for sure.
> Anybody know what the real
> story is on these things?
>
> John
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Behalf Of Rick v100
> Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2006 7:27 AM
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> Subject: Re: [MV] Alvin York
>
> how can they tell given the static nature of the WWI
> battlefield would
> have large amounts of brass casings in the area?
>
> The downside and on topic was the dismal failure of
> the Sargent York gun
> system.
>
> Rick
>
>
> --- Everette <194cbteng@bellsouth.net> wrote:
>
> > mandatory MV content - if needed most widly used
> MV military has was
> > used by Cpt. York
> >
> > Read article in Memphis, Tn. paper that professors
> from Middle state
> > Tenn.
> > University are 90%+ sure they found the site where
> Cpl. York captured
> > and killed the German troops in WWI that caused
> him to be awarded the
> > Congressional Medal of Honor, and promoted to Sgt.
> > They found shell casings
> > from 303 and various other rounds, both spent and
> unspent - only thing
>
> > not found were shell casings from pistol he used,
> consensus was that
> > ground was so damp they might not have survived
> the years that have
> > passed.
> >
> >
> >
> > Deo adiuvante
> >
> >
> >
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