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Old 01-22-2011, 11:49 AM
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Originally Posted by dvyws View Post
But.....

see, we were the Deck (seaman) trainees.

The engineers were our mortal enemies. (the 2CV owner was a [spit!] engineer).

Dismanting it was an engineer task, obviously.

As deck types, our options were limited to inverting it, repainting it [we did that once), or throwing it into the river Clyde - which would have been unseamanlike...
We tied one to a AVLB....then folded the bridge so the 2CV was left about 30 feet in the air.

Also saw a VW Beetle that tried to beat a M-60 tank through an intersection, didn't know that the front end could be squashed so flat!
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