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Fritz in post 3456 has MY rifle!

Or one like it.

There were a few (million).

Mine is a Danzig 1914, Kar 98aZ. Fun to shoot, light to carry, recoil more than manageable with the proper JS loading. These rifles CAN shoot 1 MOA if they are fed right.
 
There are a couple vehicle pictures I would very, very much like to see/find 1. a late production VW166 Schwimmwagen used in Northern Italy plated in the 1641800 to 1641850 range or any schwimmers used by the German 278 Infantry Division in Italy till its surrender at the Brenner pass and 2. a late 1944 kettenkrad being used by the Wehrmacht at the Battle of the Bulge even post battle at a Captured Equipment Collection Point is all super good. If anyone ever sees either please feel free to PM me or post them here.
 
x westie said:
I was always under the impression that both Brit and Canadian "tankie's" wore black berets, i have several photo's of my dad who served in British tank regiment in WW2, and he and his buddies all have black berets, i believe this tradition has carried over into the present Canadian Army, armored troopers wearing black berets.

The fellow in the photo is definitly wearing the AFV Coveralls, but the beret looks to be kakhi , worn by the infantry, engineers
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Could well be. No self-respecting armoured corps type would wear anything but a black beret. I think some of the non-RTR Brit armoured and recce/ former cavalry regiments persisted in wearing various unique regimental headdress rather than the black beret which was associated with the less elegant and newbie RTR.

Dress gets pretty loose in operational situations. FM Montgomery, always somewhat of a non-traditional dresser, reports that he once met a buck-ass naked Cdn soldier in Italy who saluted him by doffing the black civvy tophat that he was wearing. Monty's response was to issue an order that the wearing of tophats was forbidden in the 8th Army.
 
purple said:
Could well be. No self-respecting armoured corps type would wear anything but a black beret. I think some of the non-RTR Brit armoured and recce/ former cavalry regiments persisted in wearing various unique regimental headdress rather than the black beret which was associated with the less elegant and newbie RTR.

Dress gets pretty loose in operational situations. FM Montgomery, always somewhat of a non-traditional dresser, reports that he once met a buck-ass naked Cdn soldier in Italy who saluted him by doffing the black civvy tophat that he was wearing. Monty's response was to issue an order that the wearing of tophats was forbidden in the 8th Army.
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Gotta give Monty credit for having a good sense of humor//lol
 
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caption says:"Able Seaman Armand Therien of the Royal Navy Commandos armed with a Lanchester submachine gun in England, 20 July 1944.

Photographer: Richard Graham Arless"
 
Lanchester SMG was a licence-built adaptation of the MP-28, used an SMLE bayonet.

Note the long magazine: 50 rounds. Very few exist. STEN was designed around this mag.

All decked-out like that, it must have been a handful!
 
There were some people that didn't like the Lanchester. IMHO, it was a great sub machine gun that was typical of the designs of the pre WWII era. It was reliable, with a rate of fire just fast enough to control easily and the darn things, even though they were heavy, carried and pointed well.

Anyone that has ever had the opportunity to use one can easily relate. It is a pure blow back firearm, similar in many ways to a Sten as far as operation goes but made under very different circumstances and all machined parts. It was expensive to build but like the MP28, it was one of the Caddies of submachine guns.

I had the chance to use one many moons ago when a friend of mine picked one up at a disposal sale in the mid seventies. We shot it so much, we had to get a new barrel made up for it. As long as the bore was good, it was very accurate as well. Really wasn't designed to spray an area but put a lot of rounds into a specific target.

I can understand why the Brits didn't mass produce them. Way to expensive.

Now, if you want to see and use a real dog, try an Owen.
 
Best source of information on the Lanchester is "The Guns of Dagenham" by Peter Laidler. It was reverse engineered from the MP28 as a stop gap shortcut to get a machine carbine into production in Britain that was less expensive than the Thompson. Thompsons were being purchased (not Lend-Leased) at high prices. While the Lanchester was cheaper than the Thompson, the Sten was the response to the high cost of the Lanchester.
 
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