No.6 Gun FSB Coral (1 Viewer)
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wayne556517
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RAR to the rescue while the drop shorts do their thing, nice one mate.
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Cheers Mike, Yep bit of a sticky Wicket the Aussies had there ! {sm2}
Steve
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Think I'll await Obee's and DesertKiwi's comment on drop shorts here ! {sm4}{sm4}{sm4}
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Danger close, can they lob shells this close{sm4}, another beauty Steve. Robin.
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great decor, looks like the real thing, well done
Guy
Cheers Guy. What a ***** war to be caught up in when your leaders won't let you win !
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villagehorse;89517 2 said:
Tad too close for that Robin, still looks like the Gunners got off a last Beehive / Splintex round against the onslaught !{sm2}
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Lots of action Steve...Not sure these gunners would have positioned their gun in such long grass and so close to the tree line with no sandbag protection or any kind of perimeter wire defences..?
All the best,
Andy.
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Thats right Andy,
here is a photo of the gun in question, after the battle .....
Fire Support Base Coral. A 105mm M2A2 howitzer, the number 6 gun of 102 Field Battery, 12th Field Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery, (RAA),
on the morning after the first series of attacks on Fire Support Base (FSB) Coral by the North Vietnamese Army's (NVA) 7th Division.
The grass is shorter, and the trees a lot further away ....
BUT the diorama posted does portray the hand to hand close quarter fighting form that incident.
Well done,
John
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Thats right Andy,
here is a photo of the gun in question, after the battle .....
Fire Support Base Coral. A 105mm M2A2 howitzer, the number 6 gun of 102 Field Battery, 12th Field Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery, (RAA),
on the morning after the first series of attacks on Fire Support Base (FSB) Coral by the North Vietnamese Army's (NVA) 7th Division.
The grass is shorter, and the trees a lot further away ....
BUT the diorama posted does portray the hand to hand close quarter fighting form that incident.
Well done,
John
Thanks Andy and John ! :salute:::salute::
Just to give an idea of my thoughts and reasoning when I was assembling this little scene.
Yes normally the defences would of included sandbags and wire, but reading about the NVA attack it seems that there had been some delays and hold ups so the defenses weren't completed by nightfall.
For my little scene here, I used as inspiration the one photo of No.6 gun which is the one John had attached which shows No.6 in the morning of the 13th, lacking sandbags or wire defences at least in the photo.
The berm that can be seen extending around what I assume to be another of the battery's Guns is only partially visible for No.6 and what can be seen doesn't looks like it had only been started compared with the other one. so I chose not to use the K&C sandbag emplacement on this occasion.
I don't know in what order and the time lag of all the Guns being bought to the base, but if No.6 was the last Gun to brought to the base this could account for the lack of defences perhaps !?
Alas I only have longer haired mats to represent grass, so while I suppose I could of used small scale trees to try to give the impression of distance or placed bushes to cover the split between foreground and background, I was trying to hide the creases in the black backdrop cloth I was using to portray night !
But as it wasn't for a permanent display well, Mea Culpa !
Steve