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harryhand said:
In retrospect I could have been more tactful with my retort.So to any and all that have taken offence at my bluntness I humbly apologize.I stand rebuked....:HR:
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Harryhand,

Thank you for your post. I must admit I honestly didn't expect you to apologize, there are so many on this site that are offensive for the sake of it. I look forward to seeing your future posts.

There are comments above that I would like to reply to, but I won't, as it's not my intent to hijack the thread.

Cheers,

O'Kelly's Boys
(Capt Christopher John Patrick O'Kelly was an acting company commander with the 52nd Bn CEF who on 26 Oct, 1917 at the battle of Passchendaele, led his company in the capture of 6 enemy pill-boxes, 100 Germans and numerous machine guns. Later that day he led his company in defense of their newly won position against a strong counter attack and a raiding party that night. For these actions he was awarded the Victoria Cross. It was my honour to serve in the LSSR, which perpetuates the battle honours of the 52nd Bn CEF, for 8 of my 13 years in the CF Primary Reserve).
 
Dark Alley Dan said:
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Yanks, I think. In France, perhaps?
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I think those are M1928 haversacks.
 
smellie said:
Fugawi, I agree with you.
I would LOVE this to be a good Pictures thread (as it has been for a long time now).
My problem is people who read too many books written by revisionists who didn't need to revise in the first place.
Reality is bad enough; we don't need to trash it up with poorly-written denunciations backed by far too little research. Anyone who claims to know something about atrocities in the Great War SHOULD have known about the Ponsonby Commission; it has been public knowledge since 1922. I mean, really I CAN'T be the first person in 50 years to have researched this..... and then nobody after me for the next 40????????
A quote from that great American philosopher/historian/visionary Fox Mulder: "The truth is out there...."
Sorry for being suckered in, guys.
Have to come up with some REAL good pics for this......
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I agree 100% about "revisionists who didn't need to revise", but who exactly are the revisionists? There's the rub eh?

Lots of talk around about the devilish cunning of British propaganda, not many concrete examples though. The Ponsonby Commission apologized for some exaggerated or false stories? Good. Did they discredit any of the thousands of other incidents in British, French or Belgian records? I guess not.

As for the Ponsonby Commission, I've read similar comments by British officers. "Professionals" never want to believe that fellows in their profession can be murderers and criminals; the recognition taints them too, they instinctively feel. We see this all the time, even today, don't we? The British are particularly prone to this sort of good-natured gullibility: wanting to believe that others "mean well" and everyone is "basically decent" and similar tripe. Bless their souls, they had to learn the hard way, twice. These same easy-going, rather easily duped British are somehow transformed by a declaration of war into sneaking fiends of propaganda?

So I'll see your Ponsonby Commission and raise you a Bryce Report, and I'll throw in "German Atrocities, 1914: A History of Denial", by John Horne and Alan Kramer, Yale University Press 2001. (450 pages, 145 pages of notes, sources and bibliography)

You suggested that the 30 Years War helped to shape the national psychology; are you saying it skipped the WWI generation then?

Here's a couple of concrete examples out of thousands that no one has ever ascribed to "British propaganda": the massacre of 674 Belgian men, women and children at Dinant on the 23rd of August 1914. And second an incident with a Canadian flavour: the sinking of the hospital ship Llandovery Castle and systematic murder of the survivors by shooting and ramming the lifeboats by the U-86. 234 dead on the 27th of June 1918, including 14 nurses.

And Smellie I think you know that I value your contributions here as much as anyone, but I'm sure you'd agree that debate is healthy at any age and I'm sure someone of your intelligence doesn't take it personally. ;)

Well, we'll leave reality there folks, you can have your thread back now.;)

Roll your pictures!
 
I didn't realize the M1910 haversack was so similar to the M1928. Many of the M1910 WWI dated packs were arsenal modified in the 1930s and 1940s to M1928 configuration with the addition of an extra strap on the back. Could be either. Can't see the collar on the overcoat to determine if WWI or WWII.
 
From the front sight and barrel band, I'm pretty sure the rifle held upright by the soldier on the left is a P17. And the prone soldier's boot sole has a horseshoe heel plate and hobnails. Both of which would make it WW1.
 
Early in ww2 Russia experimented with "dog bombs" at first the dog would approach a German Panzer drop off the explosive near the Panzer and hopefully cripple or destroy it.That didnt work too well so the dogs were soon retrained to blow themselves up with the tank.One of the big problems the Russians encountered was they trained their pooches on static Russian tanks,where as in the field the German tanks looked,smelt and shot back causing in some cases for the dog to run back to the Russian lines to detonate amongst the trainer and any unlucky soldiers close by!
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harryhand said:
Early in ww2 Russia experimented with "dog bombs" at first the dog would approach a German Panzer drop off the explosive near the Panzer and hopefully cripple or destroy it.That didnt work too well so the dogs were soon retrained to blow themselves up with the tank.One of the big problems the Russians encountered was they trained their pooches on static Russian tanks,where as in the field the German tanks looked,smelt and shot back causing in some cases for the dog to run back to the Russian lines to detonate amongst the trainer and any unlucky soldiers close by!
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this resulted in germans killing any dogs they saw in russia and reducing the canine population in russia to a low that it hasnt recovered from still today
 
this reminds me of thexploding russian beaver a couple weeks back.I can't help but think "in canada you #### the dog,in soviet russia dog ####s you".lol
 
I love dogs, I have been blessed with having 5 great dogs in my life, the last one lays beside me as I write this. One of the best was Bonnie she helped me poach Pheasants and Hares at night in the UK, what fun we had, hiding in hedge rows from game keepers, hunting in thunder storms in the dead of night, sneaking home and watching for the secret "all clear" signal from my wife. We are strange people, I see a photo of a Marine turning a flame thrower on some Japs (no insult intended) and I cringe, but I see a Russian dog running to his death with a tank mine and I see red! Sorry again no pun intended. With hindsight if I was to live this life again I think an army dog handler would have been a great career, but not training them to be dog mines.
 
The PPSh appears to be cocked with the safety applied - at least the bolt cannot be seen through the ejection port, and the safety is on. What is the pistol tucked in her tunic?
 
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