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Posted by MWS72 on Wednesday, February 21, 2024 11:57 AM

There's one at the Davenport Iowa Credit Island Park. Been there since around 1970. Nearly every spring it's in the flood waters. I posted pictures I took of it and had then on the Quad-City scale Modeler Society website. Use the Wayback machine for qcsms.org

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Posted by RBaer on Saturday, February 17, 2024 5:49 PM

Big target....

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Posted by stikpusher on Friday, February 16, 2024 9:30 PM

I always thought that as a range target they made a good approximation of the T-10/JS-3 series of tanks... a bit taller, but in the same class.

 

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Posted by Rob Gronovius on Friday, February 16, 2024 9:24 PM

Ah, yeah, there's one in Radcliff outside of Knox. I drive by it daily, but tend to forget about it.

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Posted by MJames70 on Friday, February 16, 2024 7:11 PM

This M103A2 is at the Marine Corps Reserve Center in Syracuse, NY. I took a bunch of pics, but it was a gray day. 

 

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Posted by stikpusher on Friday, February 16, 2024 11:26 AM

I got to live fire TOWs on them a couple times in Spring of '87 at Ft Polk. But I did not get any photos of that exercise.

 

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Posted by S Hollowell on Friday, February 16, 2024 7:16 AM

Thanks!

 

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Posted by Rob Gronovius on Friday, February 16, 2024 12:05 AM

Somewhere, I have photos of some old M103s that were hard targets at Fort Drum, NY circa 1984-85.

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Posted by HeavyArty on Thursday, February 15, 2024 10:05 AM

I think you mean Marine Reserve Tank Bns.  No idea how long they held onto them, but my guess is not that much longer than active Marine Tank units. 

As to the second question, some went to museums and as gate guards, the rest became range targets.

 

 

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M103 tank questions
Posted by S Hollowell on Wednesday, February 14, 2024 4:22 PM

Hello, I have two questions about the M103 tank. First of all, when did the US Marine replacement battalions stop having M103s (I know that the main Marines battalions got rid of them in 1973/74, but the best I can tell the replacement battalions kept them longer)? Secondly, what happened to the M103s after the Marines and Army got rid of them?

Thanks!

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