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James Lyles, All Rights Reserved


James Lyles is a veteran of the Vietnam War, serving tours of duty in 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, and 1972. He's a former Gun Truck Commander and NCOIC of the gun trucks Maverick and Cold Sweat. He's currently authoring a book on Gun Trucks. As shown above, James is also an accomplished 1:35 scale modeler too. I'm honored to showcase some of his work here in these pages.


Sgt James Lyles with Maverick in 1971, and his gun truck patch