Military Vehicles, March 1997,: Re: M22 Locust Hulls

Re: M22 Locust Hulls

Gordon.W.I. McMillan (gwim2@student.open.ac.uk)
Sun, 2 Mar 1997 14:15:34 -0000

Complete blank this end, just looking them up in Crismon's U.S.=20
Military Tracked Vehicles (highly reccomended along with the Wheeled=20
counterpart) only tells us they were Marmon-Herrington products, T9E1 /=20
M22 total of 830 built between April 43 and February 44. They were=20
used primarily by the British (it says) though I have never run across=20
one. If any survive in the UK the Tank Museum at Bovington would be=20
the place.=20
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The turret was used on the 1940 DHT-5 half track by Marmon-Herrington=20
too, but that never got beyond the prototype.=20
Gordon 8-)=20