Picture of the day

[bearhunter]

GPMG34 with a Russian PE scope.

Obviously posed shot but very interesting all the same.

When I was in Austria for a visit with a good friend, at his grandmother's house, which was on a farm not far from the GrosKoechner, she showed me where Axis snipers with a scope mounted GPMG42 held off Russian troops from coming up the only road.

They used her kitchen window as a vantage point.

The farmhouse was built like a bunker, out of field stones, held together with mortar. One meter thick.

The MG crew, along with a few hundred other troops held out, hoping for one of the other Allied forces to surrender to. Didn't happen, what went down after the Russians fought their way through brought tears to her eyes.

Retribution is a betch.

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

A little light maintenance.

 

[woodchopper]

A little light maintenance.

oh the old overlapping road wheels

getting to the inside ones was a big deal

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

Different grooming standards in the Fleet Air Arm...

 

[XRCD011]

oh the old overlapping road wheels

getting to the inside ones was a big deal

Tell me about it, had a Ketten inner road wheel delaminate and to get to it the vehicle looked like that Tiger (just smaller scale, and less crew)

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

Much the same level of profanity though, I should think.

What's the German version of "Come on, you sunuvabich..."?

 

[fingers284]

Much the same level of profanity though, I should think.

What's the German version of "Come on, you sunuvabich..."?

No shop hoists, floor jacks or chain pulls noticeable in photo...Im betting a lot of hand/finger skin had holes in them and black finger nails before those jobs were done. Ive joined a few cat rails out in the field with minimal tooling and as the song says "it aint easy my friend".

 

[XRCD011]

^ The jack is laying on the ground right of center in the pic.

https://www.panzerbasics.com/panzer/01_basics/03_Equipment/jack.htm

 

[FoymountFarm]

Pretty uncommon rifle he's cleaning.

P

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

I'm disappointed the pic doesn't show his feet.

 

[bros]

Thats a early trials rifle converted to a sniper rifle

 

[DiMP]

Pretty uncommon rifle he's cleaning.

Never seen a No4 with a magazine disconnect? I see above my post that this is a trials rifle of some sort?

 

[bros]

Thats a magazine cutoff, carried over from earlier produced Enfield models, dropped when the No4 when into full production. Most of these No4 trials rifles were converted to snipers out of necessity . No4 trials rifles were manufactured in the 1930's and the first to be converted into snipers early in WW2 by Enfield and later standard No4's were converted by Holland & Holland and Long Branch here on this side of the pond. A No4 trials rifle that has not been converted to a sniper is a very rare rifle.

 

[fat tony]

Herbert Alan Gerwig (April 26, 1931 – November 10, 2011)

A professional wrestler with the stage name Killer Karl Kox. Gerwig enlisted in the USMC and fought in the Korean War during the Chosin Reservoir Campaign. It is said he loaded friendly casualties on to jeeps for transfer. He rarely spoke of his War service.

As far as I know, the only other pro wrestler with the Killer Karl moniker was a Dutch Canadian wrestler of the 50's through the 80's.

 

[Rob]

Private Lee Marvin and an unidentified Marine pose with a Japanese machine gun in the Pacific 1944.

 

[Dosing]

As far as I know, the only other pro wrestler with the Killer Karl moniker was a Dutch Canadian wrestler of the 50's through the 80's.

Killer Karl Krupp, he was a prominent figure in Atlantic Canadian Wrestling, along with the likes of the Cuban Assassin.

 

[fat tony]

Killer Karl Krupp, he was a prominent figure in Atlantic Canadian Wrestling, along with the likes of the Cuban Assassin.

Yes, these guys were heroes in my youth. Atlantic Grand Prix Wrestling was a popular free entertainment. Good guys all.

It seems George Momberg was likely traumatised by the occupation and made New Brunswick his new home. How humbling!

George Momberg (May 13, 1934 – August 24, 1995).

And I find it interesting he incorporated the characteristics of the archetypical Germanic barbarian into his work personna. He both mocked the Hun and provided incalculable fun for citizens.He possibly helped himself, and thousands of others to heal from the psychological trauma of war.

Otto Dix used similar Germanic imagery in his art.

I found this excellent write up on Momberg's private life and carreer.

https://slamwrestling.net/index.php...-krupp-believed-he-was-killer-karl-krupp/amp/

 

[Rob]

Wrestlers?

 

[fat tony]

Yeah

Ok how about the lost art of combatives, then?

Cpl. Alvin "Tony" Ghazlo, the senior bayonet and unarmed combat instructor at Montford Point, demonstrates a disarming technique on his assistant, Private Ernest "Judo" Jones. Between 1942 and 1947, approximately 20,000 African-American recruits received training at Montford Point Camp. Photo by: Official Marine Corps Photo

"Russian training 1976"

Bill Underwood demonstrating Defendo. He invented Combato, which he stopped teaching after WWII. The styles in the pic indicate a scene from the 1960's.

Info indicates he invented Combato in 1910.

 

[AP]

I recall my father briefly mentioning that one of the techniques taught Canadians was to drive the rim of their issue helmet into the bridge of the nose of the enemy. Imagine the entrenching tool to the neck was pretty effective.

I understand that the preferred technique was to show up with a far superior force employing indirect fire and causing the enemy to surrender.