Posted 5 years ago
fortapache
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Bought these along with one other at the Americana Show in Glendale yesterday. Was going to do all three together but this will work out better. Take my word for it.
Matchbox launched their series of military vehicles in 1959 which lasted until 1967 when the last one had its final year. 1965 was the last year for most of them.
The vehicle on the left in photo 1 and seen in photo #2 is the General Service Lorry. In other words a truck. It has seats for troops in the back. Looks to be the English equivalent of the deuce and a half. This one had a short life as 1962 was its last year.
The other is the Austin Mk 2 Radio Truck. Probably monitoring the various radio nets. The radio is still very important in the military although they are much smaller. It is said the most dangerous thing on the battlefield is a man with a radio who knows how to use it. This model lasted through 1965.
Very nice, I commented in your other post how much I like these. You're spot on about radio in warfare, the greatest commanders in history appreciated communications as much as artillery and infantry. Napoleon had a serious signal corps with heliographs, semaphores, signal fires etc. Radio transmissions changed the course of numerous battles in WW II. It's kind of a double edged sword because the enemy can listen also. The broken Japanese code won many battles and sent Yammamoto to his doom.
Thank you very much Toyrebel. I think the usual radio traffic would be calling in artillery, air strikes and such. In WWII the US had spotter aircraft adjusting artillery fire such as to get direct hits on tanks.
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