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    Rough Terrain Fork Lift

    Dec 11, 2020 3 minutes
    by David Brownell
    Photo by SP5 Dennis De. Connell
    courtesy of
    DavidDoyleBooks.com
    Office of the Command Historian

    Some vehicle sightings along Vietnamese highways during the period of 1968-70 were neither weapons platforms nor transport vehicles. In fact, a common vehicle seen in many US Army convoys in Vietnam was the RTFL (Rough Terrain Fork Lift). Moving along at “convoy speed” of up to 30mph with is exposed operator tightly belted onto the

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