Volunteer Nancy Hasenstein-Kleffman driving her favorite WWII Patton vehicle the Sd.Kfz. 2, the Kettenkraftrad.

James "Goody" Goodall - and yes, you bet the M-10 runs!

Four running vehicles here, left to right; M20 Scout Car, M4 Sherman, M3 Halftrack and the M113 APC.

In the Museum the M10 blocked the main vehicle entrance door - it HAD to start easy and run!

Meet Don Moriarty - He and several other Volunteers were instrumental in the ground up running restoration of the M50 Ontos you see here. All I can say is "it's a Hot Rod!"

The Museum's M-20. I have always had the feeling that in the forties Ford did not have much prior experience with rear engine vehicles. The shifter in the M8/M20's is simply installed backwards facing the rear of the vehicle. Takes a bit of getting used to after dealing with a more normal shift pattern.

A couple more pixs from the CALFAX - Combined Arms Event

The Patton wasn't ALWAYS about tanks, there was plenty of artillery!

75mm, PAK 40- Lyle Slaton gunner and Richard Dickerson commanding.



88mm



50mm, PAK 38

And occasionally a US 8 inch gun:

Great to see these pictures. I was stationed at Knox from 1988-1996. I took part in two of the Forth of July renactments once as a radio operator in the M-8 and Once as a bow gunner in the M-5. Sorry to hear about Duane, I knew him through this and we were also members of the Goldbrickers scale Model club in Radcliff.

Vietnam event:

Gerald Atherson * Chun "Camo" Hsu * Eric Butterfield

The 88 is a L46 I believe.

Gerald Atherton "putting the pedal to the metal" in a sliding turn to a stop - very impressive driving move topped off when the troops came pouring out the rear ramp a few seconds later!
p.s. The strange looking 50 cal. is carrying a blank adapter on the barrel.

A visitor to one of the Patton reenactment events:

great pics,thanks for shareing.

One of the founding couples of the Patton Volunteers Dean and Nancy Kleffman.

Nancy and Dean

Armored Engineer Vehicle -M728

The M728 on display at a Patton event next to the M578

M728 unloading a Navy beach Sherman with multi- bank engine.

The M578 armored recovery vehicle doing what it does best!

Patton event shot on a 1945 US Army 35mm camera.