Great pictures! Thanks for sharing.
Anyone else notice the Beaufighter and the Vichy French Hawk H75? I wonder if the RAF re-issued it as a Mohawk?
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Great pictures! Thanks for sharing.
Anyone else notice the Beaufighter and the Vichy French Hawk H75? I wonder if the RAF re-issued it as a Mohawk?
I hope you don't mind but i thought i'd share a few pics of and from my other great uncle who was a Spitfire Pilot (he made it home, that's why I got these great pics to share)... I hope you enjoy!
Great photos, thanks for sharing.
Did he bring his life vest home??
Who are the locals in the last photo? The badge looks like the Serbian or Albanian double eagle. I'm guessing Albanian since they look pretty "Mediterranean".
It's not widely known that one of the commanders of the "Desert Air Force" was Air Vice Marshall Raymond Collishaw, originally from Nanaimo, BC and one of the greatest aces of WWI. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Collishaw
I have his entire flight suit incluing officers uniform, and wings. I also have quite a few letters he wrote to home and his official release from duty paperwork. I'd have to go to my hard copies of my photo album to see if there's any more info on the people in the pictures.
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Cheers
Joe
HEY GUYS THIS ISN'T FUNNY! Bring the sub back up and let me in!
One for all the M-N fans here...
Cossacks! We don't need no stinkin' pigsticker bayonets, we got real blades!
Good morning fellow Gunnutz
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Joe
I'm assuming this is Alaska. What was the name of the Island that Japan invaded? I watched a bit of a documentary on that battle a few weeks ago. Marines were poorly equiped to fight up North...kinda like the Canadian Military currently...
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I'm assuming this is Alaska. What was the name of the Island that Japan invaded? I watched a bit of a documentary on that battle a few weeks ago. Marines were poorly equiped to fight up North...kinda like the Canadian Military currently...
Attu and Kiska I think.
Thinking on your Cossacks.......
Bayonets would have made really good shashlik skewers.
Besides, Cossacks normally were mounted, so bayonets would be really hard on the horses.
BTW, their rifles were a special model: identical to the Dragoon rifle but with the s/n starting KA3.
BIG question: are there any Cossack Rifles in Canada? Anyone here have one?
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Bayonets would have made really good shashlik skewers.
Besides, Cossacks normally were mounted, so bayonets would be really hard on the horses.
BTW, their rifles were a special model: identical to the Dragoon rifle but with the s/n starting KA3.
BIG question: are there any Cossack Rifles in Canada? Anyone here have one?
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Just speculation as the caption was in Russian or something cyrillic but when I look at this photo I notice a few things...
It seems to me that the nervous looking fellow in the centre is a visitor or guest to the others seated besides him who might be brothers. An officer with a couple of his soldiers flanking the group? He has his right hand in his pocket - on a revolver perhaps?
The two soldiers on the flanks both seem to be in a similar uniform to the officer and the one on the right (photo left) appears to not have a Mosin Nagant - a Berdan? Can anyone tell? Both have large kindjals and maybe bayonets for their rifles.
The two seated Cossacks and the boy sitting on the ground to the officer's left (right side of photo) all appear to be armed with Mosin Nagants. Not sure about the other boy's rifle but he must be a Boy Scout or something because he is prepared: rifle, shashka sword and kindjal. Just like dad behind him! As smellie mentioned no bayonets as the Cossacks would fight as cavalry but lots of kindjals and shashkas.
Even those kids would have been expert horsemen...and killers. No doubt.
Talk about a war face, the little guy in the foreground kinda freaks me out
Talk about a war face, the little guy in the foreground kinda freaks me out
Civil War period with those ammo belt bandoleers probably. Various Cross of St. George medals on display. And later, if they survived they could drive taxis in Paris or sing with Serge Jaroff.Even those kids would have been expert horsemen...and killers. No doubt.
Talk about a war face, the little guy in the foreground kinda freaks me out
Just about every type of Cossack headgear shown there: Kuban, Astrakhan, Don, which also suggests the Civil War period.
Gen. Krasnov's "From Double Eagle to Red Flag" is a good semi-autobiographical novel of the period.
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