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Originally Posted by pmulcahy11b
I was watching a documentary on the Military Channel yesterday; the US Marines knocked out two of these with Super Bazookas during the Dominican Intervention in 1965.
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Indeed they did. What fascinates me most, is that the Dominicans actually bought tanks - that didn't usually happen in the Caribbean very often - and then chose to kept them almost 40 years after the intervention.
Pre-war tank models were worlds apart from what was fielded at the end of WW2. The Dominicans also fielded about a company of Pansarbil m/39 "Lynx" armored cars and French AMX-13 light tanks each, the latter of which were rather state of the art by 1965.
On a side note, I think there were actually three L60 destroyed by US Marines and members of the 82nd Airborne Division. One by a M40 recoilless rifle, one by a M50 Ontos and one by a M48 Patton.