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shredder said:
^^During WWII??

The LMG looks like a Czech ZB26 (that the BREN was based on).
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The Romanians were armed with many Czech designed/built weapons (VZ24, ZB26). The Romanians built the ZB26 under license from the Czechs. But also, when the Germans incorporated Czechoslovakia (Bohemia and Moravia) into the Reich, the Czechs built roughly over half a million "Romanian Contract" VZ.24s for the Romanian Army. Many of the VZ24's in our country being sold now have a chance of being some of the ones that were captured by Soviet troops outside of Stalingrad from destroyed Romanian forces...
 
Here's gunsmithing on a grand scale:

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Dark Alley Dan said:
No idea, but here's an earlier truck in much better kip:

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Test drive here:
http://www.curbsideclassic.com/curb...-jimmy-gets-taken-out-for-a-drive-with-video/
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When I was in eastern Turkey in 1989 I saw a lot of the Turkish Army and was amazed at the equipment that was being maintained in service. The Turks and Greeks were always the "poor cousins" in NATO and received a lot of older equipment as donations/military aid when the leading countries went through various modernization programs. At this time the Turks were still using original WW2 deuce and-a-halfs, 155mm Long Tom guns, and quad 50 MGs. I even saw NCOs carrying Thompson M1A1 SMGs, some of which were made in Turkey. The kit all looked clean and well maintained, quite a contrast with the shabby looking, and often deadlined, more modern Soviet stuff that the various Arab armies were using. The Turks are still using hand-me-downs like M48 and M60 tanks which we see in photos from around Kobani these days.

Some Canadian donations over time included the 9.2 in coast artillery guns from Albert Head BC, which were used to defend the Dardanelles, as well as Canadair F-86 Sabres and CF-104 Starfighters. I saw the 104s operating out of Diyarbakir airfield in Turkish Kurdistan.
 
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Curly1 said:
I get tears when I see these rotting in a field, such a waste.
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No not a waste, just life proceeding as normal. Like everything else in this world, when the usefulness is done or no more parts are available time for the bone yard and scrap metal facilities.

Same thing is happening to the elephants in SE Asia. Their owners are just turning them loose to forage on their own, often in heavily populated areas where they are becoming nuisances. Why??? No more work for them. Their owners can't afford to feed them or take care of them any longer. Even though they are emotionally attached to the animals they just don't have a choice when it comes to feeding their animals or their families. They have no way of putting the animals down, even if they could bring themselves to do it. So, the elephants wander and scrounge. They were born in captivity and treated well so they don't know how to survive in the jungles their ancestors came from. People love them and feed them out of sympathy and they stay around. Many of the governments were going to start culling them but the hue and cry from their people stopped that pretty quickly.

For the most part, worn out trucks don't get any sympathy at all.
 
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