A photo from sometime in the early 1970s, an inflatable decoy (dummy) M47.
White Sands Missile Range photo by Warren Weaver.
December 1977, a M47 about to get taken-out by an M198 artillery fired M712 Copperhead on the White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico.
WSMR photo by Tom Moore.
February 1984, another M47 about to bite the dust as an artillery fired Copperhead zeros-in, on the White Sands Missile Range.
WSMR photo by Tom Moore.
‘On the way!’
WSMR photo by Tom Moore.
‘Target, cease fire!’
U.S. Navy photo by Master Chief Petty Officer Terry Mitchell.
January(?) 1993, U.S. Marines discover an orphaned M47 in Somalia, during Operation Restore Hope. They removed the live ammo.
USN photo by Master Chief Petty Officer Terry Mitchell.
U.S. Army video still by Specialist S. Paine.
December(?) 1993, U.S. Army troops found more orphaned/destroyed M47s during Op Restore Hope.
On 01AUG2012, personnel on Fort Carson, Colorado, moved a M47 gate guard from its spot on the Kit Carson ‘tank’ Park to a new location in front of the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division’s headquarters building.
USA photo by Specialist Shardesia Washington, 14MAY2015.
In May 2015, U.S. Army personnel on Hohenfels, Germany, used a shot-up M47 target to practice their heavy lifting.
USA photo by Specialist Shardesia Washington, 14MAY2015.
USA photo by Specialist Shardesia Washington, 14MAY2015.
Towards the end of August 2015, the 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, on Fort Riley, Kansas, got two M47s to perform guard duty in front of the unit’s motorpool headquarters.
USA photo by Specialist Courtney Hubbard.
Czech soldiers of the 74th Light Motorized Battalion, 7th Mechanized Brigade, reassemble a shot-up M47 target tank during exercise Allied Spirit-2, at the Joint Multinational Readiness Center in Hohenfels, Germany, 09AUG2015.
New Jersey Air National Guard photo by Senior Master Sergeant Andrew J. Moseley.
Shot-up M47 on New Jersey Air National Guard’s Warren Grove Bombing Range, April 2019.
U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sergeant Rachel Simones.
M47 target on the Edwards Air Force Base Precision Impact Range Area, August 2019.
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