Picture of the day
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The revolver in the picture is a S&W M&P Model 10. The suppressor was mostly ineffective although it was meant to be used with half loads instead of a full charge load. So instead they went to a 44 Magnum revolver that used shotshells with no powder, just a primer. But even these didn't find much traction. They did develop a 38 revolver piston round that made no noise.
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Thanks for the info ArmedGinder.
Brits with German caps
Yeah. Only the Brits were silly enough to wear putties. Damn, I wore them until 1968; 50 years after WW1 ended!
Curtiss P-40N-20CU 43-22962 (30901), ex RNZAF Kittyhawk IV NZ3220, “G" "Gloria Lyons"
Amazing back story in itself how that P-40 came to be. I am so glad to see that someone never got it in their head to "make it better" and repaint or bugger up the original wartime paint and markings.
French soldier with “Mousqueton Winchester” M1894 .30-30 carbine
Those apparently ended up in the Congo.
Grizz
Yeah. Only the Brits were silly enough to wear putties. Damn, I wore them until 1968; 50 years after WW1 ended!
When my dad joined the British Army in June 1939, 2nd Battalion, Welsh Guards, his battalion wore puttees , they were still wearing the Service Dress from WW1 , they didn’t get issued battledress until early 1940, I remember him saying the battalion mounted guard at Buckingham Palace and Tower of London, and that the tightly wound puttees cut off the circulation in his legs , they were very uncomfortable and a total pain in the a** to wear
Pre-Balkan Wars chetnik.
Chetniks were armed with a kama (a knife), a Rast-Gasser (in this case) or Mosin-Nagant M1895 revolvers; and Mausers (M1880, M1908/1910 in this case)
They wore black or white traditional south-serbian everyday clothes with a šubara (tall, thick, black or white traditional winter hat) or traditional Macedonian hats as seen in the group photo.
During the Balkan Wars, almost all chetnik officers and units adopted black military uniforms but still wore the traditional shoewear and hars and during the Great War period, all wore the regular Serbian Army uniforms, not so rarely colored in black.
Chetniks were armed with a kama (a knife), a Rast-Gasser (in this case) or Mosin-Nagant M1895 revolvers; and Mausers (M1880, M1908/1910 in this case)
They wore black or white traditional south-serbian everyday clothes with a šubara (tall, thick, black or white traditional winter hat) or traditional Macedonian hats as seen in the group photo.
During the Balkan Wars, almost all chetnik officers and units adopted black military uniforms but still wore the traditional shoewear and hars and during the Great War period, all wore the regular Serbian Army uniforms, not so rarely colored in black.
We had one of those for sale at the gunsmithing shop I worked at.
The Austro-Hungarian aircraft gunner in the picture is seen using a Mauser C96 pistol combination. Each pistol held a clip of ten bullets and the device attached to them fired them in unison, giving the gunner the ability to rapidly fire 100 rounds in volleys of 10. Two bars passed through the five upper and five lower trigger guards and were attached to the single aiming grip that can be seen in his hand. It had a trigger at the end which was pulled to fire all ten pistols at the same time. Given the close arrangement of the pistols, if the gunfire did hit the enemy aircraft, it would have been like using a shotgun. With the light frame and canvas structures of early war aircraft that might have been enough to bring it down. But one has to wonder how long it would take, and how difficult it would be, to reload and re-mount all ten pistols
April 8, 1945
Private First Class, Urban R. "Frenchy" Vachon (Laconia, New Hampshire) is having a little rest after hours of fierce fighting during the deadly Battle of Okinawa.
Frenchy faced death multiple times, but he survived the war and returned to New Hampshire.
He passed away on April 27, 1998, and is now resting in peace at Pine Grove Cemetery in Gilmanton Ironworks, New Hampshire.
On the picture, sitting behind Frenchy, is the legendary war correspondent Ernie Pyle who was killed by Japanese machine gun fire only ten days later, on April 18th, 1945.
Colour by Jake
Source: USMC Archive / Time To Go Home
Private First Class, Urban R. "Frenchy" Vachon (Laconia, New Hampshire) is having a little rest after hours of fierce fighting during the deadly Battle of Okinawa.
Frenchy faced death multiple times, but he survived the war and returned to New Hampshire.
He passed away on April 27, 1998, and is now resting in peace at Pine Grove Cemetery in Gilmanton Ironworks, New Hampshire.
On the picture, sitting behind Frenchy, is the legendary war correspondent Ernie Pyle who was killed by Japanese machine gun fire only ten days later, on April 18th, 1945.
Colour by Jake
Source: USMC Archive / Time To Go Home
"A swarm of aircraft fitters of No. 2 Squadron RAAF perform a 60-hourly inspection on one of the Squadron's Lockheed Hudsons" (A16-24) at Hughes Field NT in 1943. Ref: Argus Newspaper Collection of Photographs, State Library of Victoria / AWM.
