Just back from the Australian War Museum
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It's possible. I was only there 4 hrs and didn't see everything. They did have a mosquito fighter there and a Japanese zero.
TacticalTeacher
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I spent the most wonderful day there back in July of 2011. I could not get over the WW2 Japanese Pacific Campaign displays and then the Vietnam War contribution the Diggers spent. My takeway was the 35 seconds I spent sitting in the M113 APC on display. I had to climb over the rope and then walk up the ramp and sit with my back to the fuel tank. So much time of my misspent youth in the PPCLI was with C Coy Mechanized in APCs. The old security guards asked me to leave the display, but I rationalized with them that I'm an old veteran and the smell of diesel and hydraulic fluid in between the floor boards lured me into that carrier. 
ha ha ha
Then on my way out, some summer university students in uniform were doing personal drill with FNL1A1's... I stopped to give them a hand... I just could not resist, Mate!
Thanks for the post and the pictures!
Barney
ha ha ha
Then on my way out, some summer university students in uniform were doing personal drill with FNL1A1's... I stopped to give them a hand... I just could not resist, Mate!
Thanks for the post and the pictures!
Barney
Ah, the good old M113
I saw that one too, and may also have snuck inside - lol.The TLAV's used now is a cool upgrade of the 113A3.
I spent the most wonderful day there back in July of 2011. I could not get over the WW2 Japanese Pacific Campaign displays and then the Vietnam War contribution the Diggers spent. My takeway was the 35 seconds I spent sitting in the M113 APC on display. I had to climb over the rope and then walk up the ramp and sit with my back to the fuel tank. So much time of my misspent youth in the PPCLI was with C Coy Mechanized in APCs. The old security guards asked me to leave the display, but I rationalized with them that I'm an old veteran and the smell of diesel and hydraulic fluid in between the floor boards lured me into that carrier.
ha ha ha
Then on my way out, some summer university students in uniform were doing personal drill with FNL1A1's... I stopped to give them a hand... I just could not resist, Mate!
Thanks for the post and the pictures!
Barney
Barney, was that C Coy 1PP with the M113s being shepherded by Sgt C. as the tpt sgt ? If so, you might be almost as old as me. I'm recalling the 1971-73 timeframe.
Yes, I saw the 1905 Steyr Mannlicher 7.63mm pistol.
Adopted by Argentina and I can remember when they were sold a surplus.
https://www.google.ca/search?q=1905...AhWqllQKHbVHD-0QsAQILg&biw=1920&bih=971&dpr=1
I was in the museum in 1968, I imagine a lot has changed.
Adopted by Argentina and I can remember when they were sold a surplus.
https://www.google.ca/search?q=1905...AhWqllQKHbVHD-0QsAQILg&biw=1920&bih=971&dpr=1
I was in the museum in 1968, I imagine a lot has changed.
Funny you should ask. It is the 1905 Steyr Mannlicher pistol.
Yes. This particular one relieved from a turkish officer by the ALH at the Charge at Beersheba in WW1, just outside the modern-day palestinian city of Gaza. October, 1917.
Too bad we didn't think of visiting that museum when we were there in 2012.
It's basically the only organized tourism thing to do in Canberra
Their memorial and museum puts the Canadian Museum to shame. Spent 2 days there wandering around. Looking from their Parliament building, you can see the Memorial. All along the route is statues and dedications to their military member and branches. Very striking. They put a lot of thought into its design.
