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Modern U.S. Military Vehicles (Crestline Series) Paperback – January 1, 1999

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This book has over 300 black and white photographs with detailed captions. It covers all vehicles from tank transporters, missile carriers, airport crash trucks, amphibious landing vehicles, recovery vehicles, ambulances, to heavy equipment. Plus many more extraordinary vehicles.

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160 pages
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English
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Motorbooks International
Publication date

January 1, 1999
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8.5 x 0.5 x 10.75 inches
ISBN-10

0760305269
ISBN-13

978-0760305263
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Motorbooks International (January 1, 1999)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 160 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0760305269
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0760305263
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.7 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.5 x 0.5 x 10.75 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #2,934,781 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #1,336 in History of Military Vehicles
- #4,061 in Military History Pictorials
- #4,433 in Conventional Weapons & Warfare History (Books)

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A. OB

Another wonderful book from Motorbooks!! Great for Collectors and Military Vehicle Enthusiasts.

Reviewed in the United States on September 10, 2019

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Loved it!!! While this book might not be the most informative, it is still presents the reader with a vast array of military vehicles that you would never read or learn about from most other military-themed publications. Many of the pictures of vehicles presented in this book are not the tactical vehicles that the general public is knowledgeable of, such as Tanks and Humvees and APCs, but more specialized vehicles that play a role in combat support like: Fire Engines, Scissor-Lifts, Earthmovers, Commercial Trucks, 18-Wheelers, etc. This book is definitely unique in that it presents the reader to the unsung heroes of military vehicles that he would otherwise probably never know existed. Even the most seasoned military enthusiast, historian, or collector would be surprised at what they might learn from taking a look through the pages of this book.

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Mike Horn

Poor man's Janes' - when your company isn't paying

Reviewed in the United States on May 31, 1999

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As a Computer Combat Simulations Analyst who recreates units and equipment on a simulation training model for the US Army Reserve and National Guard - I find this book a handy reference to create workaround vehicles not able to be replicated by my database. In such cases, visuals of similar equipment are invaluable.
My only criticism stems from the work related uses I need this book for. The MIXING of competitors prototypes with actually accepted models of (especially) support vehicles is mildly annoying. Ditto for historical items no longer in the current inventory. Putting these units in their own chapters - dividing by service - would make this book even more valuable for me as a user.
Other than Janes' series ($$$$) which my company isn't about to pay for - this is one of the few available volumes that has visuals on current Army support, engineering vehicles, specialty vehicles and truck, tanker, cargo and utility vehicles.
As a suggestion, the Army also owns logistics boats of 300'+ length in it's Transportation Co and Bn's - putting them in would be very entertaining for the casual reader.
Good book. Buy it, use it and enjoy it!

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RDF

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Reviewed in the United States on July 5, 2016

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Interesting book at a great price.

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Bill Patzold

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Reviewed in the United States on February 23, 2017

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Another good book full of information

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Tracy Spencer

This book is another good reference book

Reviewed in the United States on October 24, 2013

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Building military vehicles is part of my work and the book helped me maintain accuracy of the vehicles I built!

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Very disappointed

Reviewed in the United States on August 23, 2009

If you are into military wheel vehicles, then this book is ok. I'm not into motorcycles, fire engines, dump trucks and cargo vehicles. Even then, the author tries to cover too much for this short book.

There are no color photos, no line diagrams. Very little time or space devoted to tanks, or armor vehicles. 17 pages to be exact.

I bought this thinking it would have more coverage about the M-8 Armor Gun System. It does have some photos and brief descriptions of some unusual military vehicles, but I cannot recommend this book.

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Navy Rebel

Military Motor Vehicle Expert Only!

Reviewed in the United States on August 6, 2009

I found this product to be highly entertaining because I'm a fan of picture-oriented books with lengthy, descriptive captions. Obviously, if extensive technical details are what you're looking for then this is not the item for you but this book's format makes it immensely useful for visual recognition of the subject matter with the details provided in the expanded captions. My only caveat is that, while the author is undeniably extremely knowledgable about military motor vehicles, his expertise obviously does not extend to air- and sea-based equipment as shown by the following examples.

1. The caption for the top photograph on page 136 has three (3) errors:

A. The reference to the "C5 Galaxie" is wrong because (1) the aircraft's designation has a hyphen between the "C" and the "5" ("C-5" is the correct format) and (2) the aircraft's name is misspelled ("Galaxy" is the correct spelling).

B. The reference to "Rhein-Main AFB, Germany" is incorrect because the U.S. Air Force has no "Air Force Base" on foreign soil (an "AFB" can only be on U.S. territory). The correct reference is Rhein-Main AB [Air Base], not AFB.

2. The caption for the top photograph on page 139 has one error:

The reference to the "C5A Galaxy" is wrong for the same reason as on page 136 - the aircraft's designation has a hyphen between the "C" and the "5A" ("C-5A" is the correct format). Oddly, the aircraft's name is spelled correctly ("Galaxy") in this caption.

The lack of a hyphen when referencing the C-5 may be because the author is conditioned to the Army's method of designating vehicles which is without a hyphen and he simply wasn't paying attention during his research. I'm at a loss to explain why the C-5's "offical popular name" (nickname) is spelled two different ways but his editor can share some of the blame for that since it was his/her job to ensure uniformity in spelling, even if it's the wrong spelling due to ignorance.

3. The caption for the photograph on page 141 has one especially egregious error and one claim that needs verifying:

A. This is only the second time in my extensive reading of military/naval history over the last 30+ years where I've seen an author translate the letters "CV" as "Carrier Vessel." This is incorrect because, although some U.S. Navy ship descriptions and designations have a direct relationship to each other (for example, an LSD is indeed a "Landing Ship, Dock"), in the vast majority of cases, including "CV," this is not true. In the U.S. Navy, the official description for a ship with the designation "CV" is "Multi-purpose Aircraft Carrier" [SECNAVINST 5030.8], not "Carrier Vessel." In addition, the website link below will very specifically verify that a CVCC is an "Aircraft Carrier Crash Crane" and NOT a "Carrier Vessel Crash Crane."

[Since the website link I originally listed here was deleted by Amazon, the way to reach it is to use a search engine with the key words "CVCC" and "crash crane" and then click on the link for "Approved Navy Training System Plan A/S 32A-35 Aircraft Carrier . . ." This is on the Global Security organization website and should be the fourth link listed.]

The curious part of this is how he translated AACC correctly as "Amphibious Assault Crash Crane" but not CVCC since both acronyms are verifiable from the same source. He may have, instead of researching the acronyms, simply guessed at the translation and managed to get one right.

B. The item that needs verifying is whether the ship in the photograph is actually the Amphibious Assault Ship (General Purpose) USS Saipan (LHA-2) when that ship could neither launch nor recover (no catapult or arresting gear) the aircraft pictured, a McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II. One possibility is this was for some sort of in-port static display with the aircraft craned on and off the ship for that purpose.

I attempted to contact the author via the publisher but there was no response to my first e-mail forwarded to him and the publisher refused to forward further inquiries as a matter of policy so any explanation for the discrepancies will remain unknown for now. To reiterate, despite the noted flaws, I highly recommend this book.

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