AA-2026-D46794
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A M41 Walker Bulldog light tank sits parked on sandy ground at what appears to be a military equipment display or open-air motor pool, its twin 40mm antiaircraft guns pointed skyward in a posture that made sense in 1944 and continued to make sense to the Army's procurement office through most of the next decade. Two soldiers stand atop the turret, and behind it a six-by-six truck waits in the dust, both vehicles painted in the olive drab that every vehicle in the 1950s assumed it would wear forever. The tank was already obsolescent by the time this picture was taken—designed to fight a war that had ended, kept in service because newer designs cost money and this one was paid for—which was itself a kind of small, ongoing American decision that would recur with increasing expense for the next seventy years.
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M41 Walker Bulldog Tank on Display, 1950s Military Equipment Exhibition. 1950–1959. Archive & Atlas, Historical Image Library, AA-2026-D46794. https://thearchive.archiveandatlas.com/library/m41-walker-bulldog-tank-on-display-1950s-military-equipment-exhibition.
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year = {1950–1959},
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note = {Accession AA-2026-D46794},
url = {https://thearchive.archiveandatlas.com/library/m41-walker-bulldog-tank-on-display-1950s-military-equipment-exhibition}
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