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The 919th Engineer Company (Armor) the “Red Devils” belonged to the 11th Armored Cavalry and arrived in Vietnam in October 1966 tasked with building timber trestle bridges, constructing river crossings, clearing landing zones and searching booby-trapped Viet Cong tunnels. The unit used some M48 Pattons as fire power to help defend them as they went about their work. On one occasion the M48A3 “Wild One 3” was captured by the NVA and in 1970 was transferred to the Soviet Union for display at the Kubinka Tank Museum.