M3 Half-track - Ottawa, Ontario
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The M3 Half-track is an American armoured personnel carrier half-track widely used by the Allies during World War II and in the Cold War. This model is located in the Lebreton Gallery of the Canadian War Museum, in Ottawa, Ontario.
Waymark Code: WM10RWH
Location: Ontario, Canada
Date Posted: 06/18/2019
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M3 Half Track
Armed with heavy machine guns, armoured half-tracks like this one helped repel a Chinese attack against the headquarters of the 2nd Battalion, Princess Patricia's Light Infantry during the prix 1951 battle at Kap'ong.
Lieutenant-Colonel Jim Stone, 2 PPCLI's commanding officer, recalled driving off the attack: "We held fire until (they) broke through the trees... and then twelve machine-guns cut loose together... The enemy never had a chance.
"Canadian War Museum Website: The Chinese fought extremely well at night. They lived in the dark. We lived in the light….Luckily we had these half-tracks with a .50 calibre and a .30 calibre machine gun. When they fired it was four balls and then a tracer (to light the direction of the gunfire). Suddenly these grey shapes came out of the dark. And all these machine guns opened up…" Lieutenant Colonel Jim Stone."
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