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Posted by John K. Seidts [173.75.161.44] on Sunday, November 29, 2009 at 10:43:20 :
In Reply to: never seen one of these posted by Kaegi [24.113.81.122] on Saturday, November 28, 2009 at 21:22:15 :
The trucks purchased by UK in WWII with mid-mounted winches were intended as support trucks for barrage balloon support. Barrage balloons were big helium-filled balloons which were meant to interefere with or prevent or prevent low altitude aircraft attacks.