What about a recycled MG FF 20mm aircraft autocannon ?
H.P.
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Maybe that was Skrollup’s minigun!
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This is a poor picture and I can’t tell what kind of weapon that is or if it is a real vehicle or a model.
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Maybe it was the same minigun armed 3/4 truck, I just remember seeing it thinking “that will bring some smoke down”. Wish I knew in 1970 that someday I’d want photos of some of vehicles and weapons I saw there. A Captain I served with (after the war), mentioned a local modified M113 with a Quad 50 mounted on it, used for a while but was destroyed by an IED. He didn’t have any photos, but was not a BS type (later was a one star before he died,too young, of cancer). Who knew folks would care years later?
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This is a well-known fake unfortunately 
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As good as a Vulcan on a Prius
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Somewhere I’m sure there’s a picture of Kubelwagen with an ‘88 mounted on it……
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Apparently one of the more famous “liberated” Kubelwagens was one that Lieutenant George Stout, leader of the Northern Europe section Monuments Men, liberated when the Monuments Men first came over after Normandy and drove it all over Europe until V-E day.
The description on page 87 of the book “The Monuments Men” has him driving up to a meeting in St. Lo - “an American in standard officers uniform…The car had no windshield so the officer work rakish goggles, similar to those used by WWI pilots. Around the helmet was a blue stripe and his jacket had the letters USN.”
Something out of the ordinary
He was driving it when the Monuments Men liberated the stolen art in the salt mine at Altausee, Austria. This included the “Bruges Madonna” by Michelangelo and the “Ghent Altarpiece” by Jan Van Eyck in 1432.
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OK, back to the question about the .50cal. Yes, thanks to things like “The Rat Patrol” and other mass media, .50s look really, really cool. And yes, someone could probably fabricate a mount for it that would work; but in reality, the M1919 .30cal was a lot more common and apt to be mounted on something like this.
Ken
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