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Biden’s War: Pennsylvania deploys to North Africa

Pennsylvania Army National Guard photo by Joan Nissley.

On 15JUN2021, more than 2-hundred militia personnel of the 1st Squadron, 104th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Brigade Combat team, 28th Infantry Division, Pennsylvania Army National Guard, deployed to Texas (for deployment training on Fort Bliss), and then to northern Africa.

Pennsylvania ANG photo by Sergeant First Class Matthew Keeler.

On 14JUN2021, a deployment ceremony was held at Southampton Armory, Philadelphia.  According to a U.S. Army report, the Pennsylvania Army National Guard will end up in Egypt (Which is physically in Africa, not The Middle East. The U.S. government has been listing any Arab speaking/Muslim country as being in The Middle East/Southwest Asia. The only part of Egypt that is in Southwest Asia is the Sinai Peninsula.).

Biden’s War:  VERMONT DEPLOYS NEARLY 1-thousand, AFRICA, EUROPE, MIDDLE EAST!

U.S. Wildfire prep, 2021: Connecticut & New York join forces for coming disaster!

In August 2019, the governors of New York and Connecticut made an agreement to join their respective National Guard forces in case of disasters.  This is called New Mutual Aid Emergency Management Inter-State Compact, and also involves state police.  No justification was given other than that the two states needed to “collaborate” for future cross-border emergencies.

2020’s pandemic-panic-attack delayed joint training for wildfires.

Army National Guard photo by Sergeant Andrew Valenza.

During the first week of May 2021, New York and Connecticut helicopter crews finally joined-up with the New York Department of Environmental Conservation Forest Rangers, for training over the Mohawk River.

Army National Guard photo by Sergeant Andrew Valenza.

“Our procedures vary a little bit compared to what they’re used to, and there’s a lot of terminology they use we have to get used to. We have to get used to working them to develop that crew mix and synergy. One thing we learned is that our previous spot-drop techniques are often not a good course of action due to the way the rotor downwash can fan out the flames.”-Captain Forest Thrush, 3rd Battalion, 142nd Aviation Regiment

Army National Guard photo by Sergeant Andrew Valenza.

The Bambi bucket used by the New York/Connecticut National Guard UH-60 Blackhawks can weigh 2.8-tons when full.

U.S. Wildfire prep, 2021: ALASKA AIRBORNE RED CARD

U.S. Wildfire, 2021: SIERRA FIRE

U.S. Wildfires, 2021: Intanko

U.S. Air Force photo by Airman First Class Jason W. Cochran.

In California, on 08JUN2021, more than 3-hundred Beale Air Force Base (AFB) personnel and their families were ordered to evacuate, by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Yuba County Sheriff’s Department, due to a wildfire.

CalFire S-2T water bomber. USAF photo by Airman First Class Jason W. Cochran.

CalFire (Cal Fire, California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection), Wheatland Fire Department, Linda Fire Department and other local agencies were already fighting the Intanko Fire, and now Beale AFB Fire Department and Civil Engineers joined in that fight.

USAF photo by Airman First Class Jason W. Cochran.

Corpat Incorporated Bell 212. USAF photo by Airman First Class Jason W. Cochran.

USAF photo by Airman First Class Jason W. Cochran.

Erickson Aero Tanker MD-87. USAF photo by Airman First Class Jason W. Cochran.

USAF photo by Airman First Class Jason W. Cochran.

When the Intanko Fire was finished about 939 acres (380 hectares) had burned, but luckily no buildings: “When everything settled down and the hectic phase of it had passed, I was just happy to see that all of the homes were not damaged and everyone was safe.”-Senior Airman John Nethercutt, 9th Civil Engineer Squadron firefighter

USAF photo by Airman First Class Jason W. Cochran.

Idaho Wildfires, 2019:

MD-87 WATER BOMBER & NEW KING AIR FAC

Pandemic Logistic Shenanigans: “a supply/demand mismatch” “New Normal”

Incomplete list of links to industry news reports, as of 03 June 2021, which prove the Artificial Intelligence (A-I) driven (yet pandemic-panic-attack blamed) supply shortage is all about money:

A-I driven logistics research company Blue Yonder says supply shortage shenanigans are the New Normal!

Logistics Manager’s Index says demand for logistics will only increase: “This hard shift in economic activity is akin to going from standing still to a full sprint, and as would be expected, it has put tremendous pressure on supply chains. Many supply networks are currently suffering from the phenomenon known as the ‘bullwhip effect’ in which smaller variations in demand at the consumer level lead to wild swings further up the chain.”

Logistics Management article reveals true reason for supply shortage; ocean ports are overwhelmed with cargo ships that can’t unload their cargo: “Given the congestion at ports in San Pedro Bay, we’re seeing more interest in booking freight through Mexico and Canada. This is a trend that we expect to continue through the next Peak Season.”-Brian Nemeth, AlixPartners

Turkey based ‘route optimizer’ gets money from investors, including Ford.

New A-I driven logistic company called Locus gets investors to shell-out USD$50-million in latest round of fund raising!

New Project44 logistics solution company ‘milks’ investors of USD$202-million, and valued at $1.2-billion, claims it will help retail industry fix supply problems!

Prudential Financial-PGIM Real Estate sinks USD$323-million into Chinese logistics company!

E-commerce logistics company Delhiverly gets investors to shell-out USD$277-million before its Initial Public Offering!

New logistics company NextBillion gets USD$6.25-million from investors!

U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Corporal Scott Jenkins.

In May, the U.S. Marine Corps conducted a record 18 vehicle convoy, approximately 5-thousand miles from North Carolina to California, and then back to North Carolina.

USMC photo by Lance Corporal Scott Jenkins.

The four weeks long drive tested the ability to control a large movement of trucks using High Frequency (HF) beyond line-of-sight highly secure radio communications. HF radios are old tech, but turns out they might provide more radio security now that most ‘enemies’ are using the latest satellite communications and other radio technologies.  Also, it seems HF can handle more data.

USMC photo by Lance Corporal Scott Jenkins.

  “This mission has run smoothly due to the detailed preparation effort, and competency of the team on the road. All issues encountered have been solvable….”-Captain Adam Devine, 2nd Transportation Battalion, 2nd Marine Logistics Group

Retailers are dealing with the leanest levels of inventory, relative to sales, on record: “…almost all companies we have spoken to alluding to a supply/demand mismatch.”-Simeon Siegel, BMO Capital Markets

Supply shortage shenanigans are actually causing established XPO Logistics to grow and improve its ‘free cash flow’.

Illinois based Redwood Logistics takes over software company and parcel delivery company!

Advance Realty Investors, Greek Development and PGIM Real Estate, are closer to completing 1.3-million acre Linden Logistics Center, in New Jersey.

California based Deckers Brands to build logistics center in Indiana.

New 1.8-million square feet logistics center to be built in California.

Canadian logistics company Pinnacle Logistics Solutions hired a ship to transport steel, in what is being considered a case study examining the benefits of when companies take direct control of the supply chain.

Lineage Logistics takes over UTI Forwarding, the latest in dozens of take overs by Lineage since the pandemic-panic-attack started.

Indian logistics company to deliver Russian CoViD vax.

Virginia based LaserShip credits pandemic-panic-attack for its expansion into Tennessee!

Interim director of Army Medical Logistics Command’s Medical Maintenance Policies and Analysis directorate, during a discussion at a healthcare technology management workshop, at Fort Detrick, Maryland. Photo by C.J. Lovelace.

U.S. Army Medical Logistics Command conducts first ever healthcare tech workshop.  The U.S. Army says the pandemic-panic-attack revealed a problem with current medical providers, including the U.S. military, in having enough workers on hand to handle a pandemic.

Three Maryland based companies sign contract to modernize the U.S. Department of Defense’s Defense Logistics Agency.

U.S. Air Force photo by Technical Sergeant Kentavist P. Brackin.

In the name of logistics (calling it the Aerial Port of the Future) the U.S. Air Force has created an Android based system which can monitor the location and activities of personnel involved with flightline activities, in real time.

USAF photo by Technical Sergeant Kentavist P. Brackin.

In Michigan, the USAF recently tested the Android Team Awareness Kit (ATAK) and Android Team Logistics Awareness Switch (ATLAS), during Mobility Guardian 2021.

Supply companies in Communist China threaten to halt port operations, claiming they are losing money!

France based Robotics Specialist wants to invade the U.S. logistics market.

Global logistics robot market expected to be worth billions of U.S. dollars.

Pandemic Logistics Shenanigans, April 2021: CANNED PET FOOD? CONSPIRACY TO JACK-UP PRICES? BLAME CHINA?

Cold War Vehicle I-D: Korean 대한민국 M48

U.S. Department of Defense photo by Al Chang.

Wargame Team Spirit, March 1984.  Main gun over rear deck.

U.S. DoD photo by Al Chang.

M48 crosses bridge during Team Spirit ’84, with main gun tube over rear deck.

U.S. DoD photo Al Chang.

Very hairy looking M48, Team Spirit ’84.

March 1984, U.S. Army photo by Specialist Long.

U.S. Army photo by Specialist Long.

105mm gunned M48A5K, Team Spirit ’84.

USA photo by Specialist Long.

90mm gunned M48A3K, Team Spirit ’84.

USA photo by Specialist Long, March 1984.

Team Spirit ’89.

U.S. DoD photo Al Chang.

Team Spirit ’90.

U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Corporal Steven Tran.

90mm gunned M48 still in use, September 2015.

USMC photo by Lance Corporal Steven Tran.

USMC photo by Corporal Tyler S. Giguere.

M48s are still in use, slowly being replaced by K1A1s, and soon by the new K2.

‘Gate Guard’ duty.

Vehicle I-D:  KOREAN 대한민국 M47

Cold War 1961: M48A1 v T-54/55; BERLIN KRISE, ‘GAME OF CHICKEN’

December 2019: A FLYING M48A1?

Cold War Vehicle I-D: Korean 대한민국 M47

March 1982, U.S. Navy photo by Photographer’s Mate Petty Officer First Class D. Brockschmidt.

U.S. Department of Defense photo by Al Chang.

Wargame Team Spirit, March 1982.  Main gun tube is facing over the rear deck.  Also, notice the type of muzzle brake, and then compare to the muzzle brakes seen on the M47s in 1985.

U.S. Department of Defense photo by Al Chang.

A Korean M47 that desperately needs a haircut. Team Spirit ’82.

U.S. DoD photo by Al Chang.

Team Spirit, March 1983.

U.S. DoD photo by Al Chang.

This one has a spotlight, Team Spirit ’83.

March 1983, U.S. DoD photo by Al Chang.

U.S. DoD photo by Al Chang.

Team Spirit, March 1985.

U.S. DoD photo by Al Chang.

Korean M47s had both types of muzzle brakes.

U.S. DoD photo by Al Chang.

March 1988, photographer unknown.

U.S. Army photo by Staff Sergeant Jerry Baker.

M47 rolls off KI RIN (LSM-658) during Team Spirit ’91.  Reportedly, the last Korean M47 was retired in 2007.

Vehicle I-D M47: DUMMIES, ORPHANS, TARGETS & GATE GUARDS

Vehicle I-D M47: Dummies, Orphans, Targets & Gate Guards

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.

White Sands Missile Range crazies: FAKE NEWS T-72, WORLD’S BIGGEST R/C TOY?

Iraq 2003: ARMOR BATTLE DAMAGE

Vaccine Fail: Lack of demand kills military shots? Warnings about new ‘Severe Malaria’! Got Vax-Pass?

Incomplete list of links to reports and studies showing the vaccination campaign is a failure, as of 15MAY2021:

AstraZeneca (U.K) versus Sinovac (China)

Nature.com asks; How did a new variant spread around the world unnoticed?

U.S. military bases in Europe to begin vaccinating children.

United Nations’ World Health Organization (UN-WHO) condemns governments who are now vaccinating children, says the vaccines would be of better use if given to poor countries!

Yet another report reveals the truth (buried in the middle of the article) about why poor countries are short on vaccines; lack of cold storage facilities.

The UN-WHO warns of “new variant of concern”!

Reminder; the UN-WHO has not approved a single CoViD vaccine!  CoViD shots have only been authorized for emergency use under the UN-WHO’s Emergency Use Listing (EUL), which states “The WHO Emergency Use Listing Procedure (EUL) is a risk-based procedure for assessing and listing unlicensed vaccines, therapeutics and in vitro diagnostics with the ultimate aim of expediting the availability of these products to people affected by a public health emergency.” 

AUSTRALIA: Genetically modified CoViD vaccine nose spray.

CANADA: The Ontario Associate Minister of Small Business and Red Tape Reduction, Prabmeet Singh Sarkaria, is being criticized for revealing that “The study out of Qatar states that Pfizer’s one shot is only 30% effective against the variant that originates out of the U.K.”

CHINA: Republic of China (Taiwan) has been praised for its pandemic policies, but now is on the verge of declaring a Level 3 emergency (for the first time) due to skyrocketing infections!

South China Morning Post investigation reveals that many academic articles published on China’s inter-web are fake, all you need is 4-hundred USD and you can publish anything as ‘academic/scientific’!

GERMANY:  Germany hints at blocking travel to and from United Kingdom!

City officials of Wiesbaden worked with U.S. Army leaders to create a vaccine passport for U.S. Army personnel.  Currently in Wiesbaden, business owners can require potential customers to take a rapid CoViD test before entering their store.  It’s hoped the new U.S. Army/Wiesbaden vax-pass will satisfy those pandemic-panic-attack business owners.  It is not valid in other Germany cities.

FRANCE: Says Biden’s vaccine patent waiver idea is irrelevant.

INDIA: Revealed; fully vaccinated U.S. health ‘expert’ dies of CoViD after traveling to India, his wife finds it “ironic”!

Health officials consider expanding the time between first and second doses of CoViD vaccine, because studies indicate there is a better immune response.

Why Biden’s push for vaccine patent waivers won’t work for India.

India’s CoViD crisis is shutting down global logistics, creating shortages of the products you want!

ISRAEL: Study reveals that the efficacy of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is directly affected by additional disease-modifying therapy (DMT).

JAPAN: A retail billionaire claims Japan’s pandemic-panic-attack policies are turning the Tokyo Olympic into a “suicide mission”!

Government bans re-entry of foreigners who live/work in Japan!

SWITZERLAND: Basel based vaccine maker says Biden’s vaccine patent waiver plan smacks of East German communism.

RUSSIA: Nasal spray vaccine ready by 2022?

UNITED KINGDOM: Changes CoViD pandemic-panic-attack rules (yet again), blames it on new variants!

UNITED STATES:  Investigation shows only 12 people are responsible for almost all social-media fake-news about vaccines!

What is the new CoViD vaccine ‘honor system’?

Alabama; University of Alabama at Birmingham claims vaccine nasal spray works good in mice.

Arizona;

Arizona National Guard photo by Technical Sergeant Michael Matkin.

The state National Guard began vaccinating children, ages 12 to 18 years, at a drive-through vaccination site in Mesa.

California;  Celebrity talk show host/political commentator Bill Maher gets infected despite being fully vaccinated!

Colorado; Health officials report yet another new variant of CoViD, despite vaccinations!

Illinois; If vaccines are so good why is the gov’na offering $4-million in amusement park tickets to encourage people to get vaccinated?

Kentucky;

U.S. Army photo by Eric Pilgrim.

Military leaders on Fort Knox are now begging people to get vaccinated.  Captain Shantyl Galloway, officer in charge of the vaccination site, reported that the number of people getting the shot has dropped from between 150 to 2-hundred per day, to just 40! It’s now estimated that by the end of June the Fort Knox vax-site will be sitting on 2-thousand unused (and expiring) vaccines: “We’ve seen a drastic decline in demand……the demand just isn’t there.”

Maine; Vaccinated people in Maine say its not fair that incentives are now offered to get people vaccinated, demand that incentives be made retroactive!

Maryland; Gaithersburg based Novovax is losing money after it was revealed its new CoViD vaccine is only 51% effective against the South African variant!

  The state prison system is now offering prisoners cookies and candy to get them to take the unapproved (authorized for emergency use only) vaccine!

Gov’na praises pizza restaurant for offering free pizzas to people who got vaccinated.

U.S. Army, USAMMDA public affairs photo by Jeffrey Soares.

The U.S. Army Medical Materiel Development Activity (USAMMDA), along with drug maker Amivas, reminded the public that their Malaria Treatment Drug-Intravenous Artesunate (MTD-IVAS) is available for treating ‘severe malaria’.  The U.S. Army along with the UN-WHO have been warning of severe malaria, and working on a new treatment for several years.  The MTD-IVAS treatment was actually approved in May 2020, by the USFDA, but was overshadowed by the corona virus pandemic panic attack.  So far 5-hundred people have been treated with the new drug: “Artesunate for Injection fulfills a critical gap because it is the only FDA-approved drug to treat severe malaria in Service Members and the U.S. population.”– Ryan Adams, MTD-IVAS project manager

Nevada; New variants detected!

New York;  Onondaga County using tax funded ‘free’ meals to encourage people to get vaccinated!

New York National Guard photo.

On 12MAY2021, the New York National Guard claimed to have issued the 25-thousandth 2nd dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine at the Bronx-Baychester Point of Distribution (PoD) center.

Ohio; If vaccines are so good why are state taxpayers being raped of $1-million, per week, to encourage people to get vaccinated?

Oklahoma; State health officials report increasing cases of new variants!

U.S. Army photo by Staff Sergeant Jeremy Bennett.

At the FEMA/U.S. Army Northern Command’s mass-vax site (Community Vaccination Center, CVC) in Tulsa, U.S. Navy medics began vaccinating children, ages 12 to 17.

Utah;  If vaccines are so good why is the gov’na considering using taxpayer dollars to pay people to get vaccinated?

Virginia;  Remember, the CoViD vaccines are not ‘approved’, they are only authorized for emergency use and as such military personnel are not required to get them.  On 14MAY2021, the U.S. Navy announced the end of  “high-throughput COVID-19 vaccination” for their operations in Norfolk.  Navy officials admitted it is due to lack of demand: “We’ve vaccinated roughly 10-thousand people within the COMNAVAIRLANT claimancy.  We’ve successfully satisfied the demand of people who want the vaccine.”-Lieutenant Aimie Terry, Assistant Force Nurse

While the U.S. Navy halted ‘high-throughput CoViD-19 vaccinations’, FEMA deployed the U.S. Coast Guard to the Military Circle Mall in Norfolk, turning the now vacant Macy’s store into a mass-vax (CVC) site.  Optimistic officials think that there will be 3-thousand silly-vilians (civilians) per day using the CVC site.

Washington; For the week of May 3-9, the state National Guard claims that 11-thousand-338 CoViD-19 vaccines were administered.

Washington DC; Reminder, not one of the so-called CoViD vaccines in use in the United States have been approved as a vaccine under the USFDA!  All the propaganda by government officials and main-stream news media is hyperbole, the USFDA has only “authorized for emergency use only”, which is technically and legally not the same as ‘approving’ as a vaccine, mainly because the ‘experimental medical technologies’ did not go through the more intensive testing required for a true approved vaccine!

Wisconsin; Chippewa County revealed it has reduced the amount of vaccine it orders due to crashing demand, only 37% of the county residents had been vaccinated. County health officials confirmed at least one case where a fully vaccinated person still got infected!

Remember, the CoViD vaccines are not ‘approved’, they are only authorized for emergency use and as such military personnel are not required to get them.

U.S. Army, Fort McCoy Public Affairs photo by Aimee Malone.

On 04MAY2021, the U.S. Army post Fort McCoy halted on-post vaccinations due to lack of demand.  Health officials even stated that many personnel that got the first shot never came back for the second dose.  Fort McCoy health officials are assuming it is because the vaccine is now widely available through out Wisconsin, for free.

Vaccine Fail, 03MAY2021: PHARMACIES SPOIL VACCINES, ISSUE FAKE SHOTS INSTEAD? JAPAN REVEALS DEATHS AFTER GETTING SHOTS!

Cold War Finale: Soviet Helix boards U.S. aircraft carrier!

USN photo by Petty Officer First Class Mark Therien, 14OCT1992.

On the 14th and 15th of October 1992, as the Soviet Union fell apart, two Kamov 27s (Red 46 and Red 53) made history by becoming the first Russian helicopters to land on not one, but two U.S. Navy (USN) ships.

USN photo by Petty Officer Second Class Steven Cooke.

USN photo by Petty Officer Second Class Steven Cooke.

The NATO reporting name Helix was from the destroyer Admiral Vinogradov, it landed on the USS Ranger (CV-61), the ships were taking part in the same multinational wargame (Operation Southern Watch) in the Arabian Sea.

USN photo by Petty Officer Second Class Steven Cooke.

USN personnel got to check-out the ‘enemy’ helicopter.

USN photo by Petty Officer Second Class Steven Cooke.

This USN officer seems very happy about sitting in a ‘enemy’ helicopter (or maybe he just played a nasty joke and crapped in the pilot’s seat?).

USN photo by Petty Officer Second Class Steven Cooke, 15OCT1992.

There were lots of group photos taken with USN personnel and the crew of Red 46.  This one shows the happy Captain of the USS Ranger (bald guy giving the thumbs-up sign) with the Soviet, I mean Russian crew of Red 46.

USN photo by Petty Officer First Class Mark Therien, 14OCT1992.

Red 46 also paid a visit to the USS Kinkade (DD-965).  USN helicopters also visited the former Soviet ship.

USN photo by Petty Officer First Class Mark Therien, 14OCT1992.

Red 46 back home on the Admiral Vinogradov, after its visit to USS Kinkade.

USN photo by Petty Officer First Class Mark Therien.

Kamov hanger onboard Admiral Vinogradov.

USN photo by Petty Officer Second Class Steven Cooke.

Red 53 onboard USS Ranger, 15OCT1992.

USN photo by Petty Officer Second Class Steven Cooke.

USN photo by Petty Officer Second Class Steven Cooke, 15OCT1992.

Red 53 leaving USS Ranger.

USN photo by Petty Officer First Class Mark Therien.

“For the Long Voyage.”

WW1 Vehicle I-D: U.S. Mark-8, last of the Liberty tanks

Apparently the Mark VIII (aka Mark 8) was a joint effort by the United States and United Kingdom.  It was referred to as the Liberty or The International, and was intended to fight in World War One (The Great War), but production delays prevented that.

U.S. Army Ordinance Department.

Images are dated February 1919.  Notice the access door has a large porthole type window.

USA Ordinance Department.

There is also a large porthole window on the back of the castle tower (turret).

USA Ordinance photo, February 1919.

U.S. Mark VIIIs were assembled in factories in Connecticut (Locomobile Company of America), Ohio (Parish and Bingham Company) and Illinois (Rock Island Arsenal).  They were also built in the U.K., by the North British Locomotive Company, William Beardmore and Company, and Metropolitan.

USA Ordinance Department photo.

These photos are dated 1918, and show the first Locomobile built Mark-8 undergoing testing (like mowing down trees).

USA Ordinance Department photo.

USA Ordinance Department photo by N. Nazarnick.

This photo was taken towards the end of 1918, it is marked as being received by the USA Ordinance Department on 24JAN1919, a water crossing test just outside Bridgeport, Connecticut.

USA Ordinance Department photo by N. Nazarnick.

Locomobile Mark-8 completing a successful hill climb.  The open hatches reveal the location of the driver.

USA Ordinance Department photo by N. Nazarnick.

10MAY2021:

REBUILDING LIBERTY