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The M48 Patton is an American first-generation main battle tank (MBT) introduced in February 1952, being designated as the 90mm Gun Tank: M48.It was designed as a replacement for the M26 Pershing, M4 Sherman, M46 and M47 Patton tanks, and was the main battle tank of the U.S. Army and U.S. Marine Corps in the Vietnam War.
English: OPERATION PERSHING An M48 tank of the 1st Battalion, 12th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), moves through the village of Truong Lan, Binh Dinh Province, approximately 90 km northeast of An Khe during a search for the VC.
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The Ben Het Camp Special Forces Camp was located along the Vietnam-Laos-Cambodia tri-border area and run by the 5th Special Forces Group.At the time of the battle, there were 12 Green Beret advisers and three companies of CIDG numbering 400 in total, alongside two M42A1 tanks and a 175mm artillery battery.
Tanks in the series include: M46 Patton, a medium tank model operational during the Korean War; M47 Patton, the first US main battle tank, in service from 1952 through 1959 with the U.S. Army, and through the mid-1990s in foreign service. M48 Patton, a tank model in service from the mid-1950s through the Vietnam War with the U.S. Army, and ...
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Within minutes a platoon from Company A, 1st Marines, accompanied by three M48 tanks, moved out of positions 1 km away and headed south to assist. The coordinated attack, which included more than 150 rounds of 105mm artillery, 40 rounds of 4.2-inch mortar, 75 rounds from the 90mm guns of the tanks, and airstrikes by Marine UH-1E gunships ...