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Australian Centurions did very well in Vietnam, did pretty well in Korea too.

billpe wrote:Australian Centurions did very well in Vietnam, did pretty well in Korea too.

Didn't the French use Chaffees ? that entire brigade was eventually overrun ...but still no movies ...though I did see one documentary...which I don't really count as a movie

ALPHA

ALPHA wrote:OK........... But why no tank movies based in Vietnam... is it because it was such an embarrassment
The first example of how technology did not beat out low tech techniques and strategies

ALPHA

The only film that focuses on the American involvement in Vietnam that I can recall and I do not recollect any Tanks is the GREEN BERET, A film that did no favours for the American Armed Forces in general or American Special Forces in particular. Not John Waynes finest hour. Vietnam, Two Armies with totally different concepts of how to fight a war. Not helped that one army knew exactly why it was there and the other because the politicians said it was right to be there, ( a lot of soldiers over many years from many countries say the same thing, get the politicians advocating war to fight and you would never have war) shaun

ALPHA wrote:

billpe wrote:Australian Centurions did very well in Vietnam, did pretty well in Korea too.

Didn't the French use Chaffees ? that entire brigade was eventually overrun ...but still no movies ...though I did see one documentary...which I don't really count as a movie

ALPHA

Yes at Dien Bien Phu in the early 50's, it's sort of what set the catalyst for the later war. By all reports the Chaffee did pretty well. They were flown to the garrison in parts and reassembled on site. There was a radio documentary on the BBC not to long back about it and Pierre Langlais who was in command. It's the sort of story which probably would make a good film.

Saw Saints and Sinners The Void, on youtube recently got some Hellcats in it

Dietrich wrote:Could the film that you call 'The Beast'..actually be called 'The Beast of War'..??..its the closest that I could find on YouTube..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QG_W8cufV3U

It was released as "The Beast of War" in Australia. Great movie.

I've never seen a Vietnam movie during the US involment that had the correct tanks in them. The US did not use the bulldog the south Vietnamese were supplied with them and they proved pretty effective even against the larger Russian tanks if they got in the first shot. The US used M48's and M551's only.

PainlessWolf wrote:Dietrich,
The movie is named 'The Beast' I thought the tank was a T-55 but looking at my copy, it is a T-62. Columbia pictures with Jason Patric, done in 1988. Really well done. The Commander's descent into madness while retaining control of his tank is fascinating to watch.
regards,
Painless

From memory I think the producers did some sort of shady deal with someone and bought a pair of Israeli Tirans. They stripped them back to make them look more like Soviet tanks again but that's why the turret MG is a .50 cal mocked up to look like a DShK.

greengiant wrote:I've never seen a Vietnam movie during the US involment that had the correct tanks in them. The US did not use the bulldog the south Vietnamese were supplied with them and they proved pretty effective even against the larger Russian tanks if they got in the first shot. The US used M48's and M551's only.

Odd isn't it green....so many movies based in Vietnam about downed aircraft and helicopters...but none with the inclusion of tanks...might be something for movie makers to look into

ALPHA

In the movie Jarhead the Abrams in that film are fakes. Bet you can't guess without a Google search which tanks were made to look like them.