M114 Command and Reconnaissance Carrier - Watchung, NJ
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Metro2
N 40° 37.889 W 074° 26.592
18T E 547087 N 4497998
This tank is located in a small park where Watchung Avenue meets Somerset Street in Watchung, NJ.
Waymark Code: WMEPJP
Location: New Jersey, United States
Date Posted: 06/23/2012
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Displayed in Veterans Memorial Park in Watchung, New Jersey, this tank has no accompanying plaque. However, it would appear to be a M114 Command and Reconnaissance Carrier.
Wikipedia (
visit link) that this model:
"...is a Vietnam War-era tracked armored fighting vehicle, used by the United States Army. It was manufactured by the Cadillac Division of General Motors in the early 1960s.
The M114 was designed to be fast and stealthy. Like the larger M113, it was swim capable and deployable by parachute. But unlike the M113 which became one of the most successful armoured vehicles, it quickly proved unsuited to use in the Vietnam war, and was replaced in the reconnaissance role by the M551 Sheridan light tank. By 1973, it had been branded a failure and retired by the US Army, but some released as surplus continue to be used by police departments."
The plaque for the Park reads:
""VETERANS MEMORIAL PARK
IN MEMORY OF
THOSE WHO SERVED
AND OF
THOSE WHO DIED
FROM A GRATEFUL CITIZENRY
WATCHUNG, NEW JERSEY"
On the side of the tank:
"U.S. Army
12T059"
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