scraw said:
Are you sure about that one? Reading 'Not a Good Day to Die' I don't recall any mention of M113s, nor during 18 Hours (by an Australian SAS guy that was there).
They were mentioned in many Spanish newspapers articles, quoting AP reports. But you know the journalists, and their "exact" and "always trustworthy" informations.
Still conserve some of those articles in my Hard Disc. They are of different media, from there my credit to the information. But reading them with greater care, they all quote as source "informations" of AP (Associated Press). Unfortunately, they don't refer literally those news notes of AP. Therefore I haven't be able to verify if the information is all correct or not. Or if there is a confusion (in the AP notes or in the Spanish Newspapers interpretation of those) over the canadian BV-206S of the detachment comanded by the Lt. Col. Pat Stogran. Unfortunately that type of errors is very common in the spanish media.
Thats the source of my mention of M-113.
In the other hand "icelord", during Anaconda the BV-206S (an APC) were in fact deployed by Chinooks near the Shah-I-Kot Valley to evacuation and resupply purposes. In reserve positions it's true, but they were included in the operation.
