"Amcrasher, a converted Amtrac (Amphibious Tractor), serving as crash crew fire-fighting equipment for Marines' Aircraft Group (MAG)-12 flightline at Chulai in Vietnam. The Amcrasher, nicknamed "the Amcrash," is employed to access crash points beyond the runway in loose sand, where standard trucks would get stuck. DEFENSE DEPT. PHOTO (MARINE CORPS) A186129 127 GVB-342. October 22, 1965."

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