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Recce21 said:
Im almost positive that every WW2 SS and Wehrmacht medal, cuff titles, campaign shields was authorized as long as the Nazi Eagle was removed or SS runes were removed. I have seen 1957 versions of everything from German Cross in Gold, Tank Destruction Badges, Close Combat Clasps, even Long Service medals to the Third Reich. The only one I am not 100% sure of is the Anti Partisan Badge.
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Very interesting. Thanks for that.
 
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hey gun nutz go nuts identifiying everything
 
Looks like an MG15 to me, High Power, Sten, VZ24, .50's, 2 inch mortars...i dunno, the resolution is terrible. Looks like a modern reenactors set up ran through a really bad filter.
Donny Fenn1 said:
Inglis on the back shelf, Mauser of some sort next to a 22 leaning against the back and maybe a hull machine gun from something panzerish laying across the back left fender under the Brownings?
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Going off the back of the photograph- Lynx Scout Car #204 2 inch mortar, 60mm mortar (German), Mauser rifle, flare gun, double Barrel, Browning Pistol.

This is not a reenactment photo this one is an original photo from 1945 and yes my scanner sucks for little tiny photographs
 
Donny Fenn1 said:
Inglis on the back shelf, Mauser of some sort next to a 22 leaning against the back and maybe a hull machine gun from something panzerish laying across the back left fender under the Brownings?
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Interesting about the '22'. I heard of a British soldier in the Desert campaign. He was a normal soldier (not sure if he was a commissioned officer or an enlisted man) & had a .22 cane gun. The story was they craved fresh rations so much, that small game was one of the few ways they could supplement their marginal rations.

I heard of similar things being done in the Continuation War. According to this story, troopers would load one round in the magazine of their Suomi & shoot a crow when the opportunity presented itself.

In the World At War series, episode "It's a Lovely Day Tomorrow :Burma, 1942-1944", a Japanese veteran of the Burma campaigns recounts how they would hunt bandicoot & make a curry with rice.

The practice of WWII combattants engaging in survival poaching had to have been widespread.

It appears by the looks of the fence that it was also laundry day. :)

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It is the German 'squeeze bore' anti tank rifle. Yep, it was classified as a rifle. The one in the picture is the 'airborne' model with small wheels. This appears to be part of a coastal defence battery. The effective range was something around 500 metres against light armour up to 66mm. The shortage of tungsten was a problem with their operational use by about 1943 according to some light research I did on them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2.8_cm_sPzB_41

I first heard of them from a 1970s British publication which came as thin magazines printed on high quality glossy paper, usually no more than about 50 pages 8-1/2" X 11" with two staples holding the pages together. I never had the full set, sort of like those supermarket encyclopedia sets that never seemed to be completed.


OOH! didn't know this but there was a family of such arms!

http://www.lonesentry.com/german_antitank/index.html

PAW 600 using the Hoch-Niederdruck system (High / low pressure system).

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I guess the only other nation to pursue such an arm was the USSR (73mm smoothbore gun for BMP).
 
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fat tony said:
Interesting about the '22'. I heard of a British soldier in the Desert campaign. He was a normal soldier (not sure if he was a commissioned officer or an enlisted man) & had a .22 cane gun. The story was they craved fresh rations so much, that small game was one of the few ways they could supplement their marginal rations.
I heard of similar things being done in the Continuation War. According to this story, troopers would load one round in the magazine of their Suomi & shoot a crow when the opportunity presented itself.

In the World At War series, episode "It's a Lovely Day Tomorrow :Burma, 1942-1944", a Japanese veteran of the Burma campaigns recounts how they would hunt bandicoot & make a curry with rice.

The practice of WWII combattants engaging in survival poaching had to have been widespread.
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I served with vets who told about shooting the tiny Roebuck deer in Germany both for sport and meat. When I was serving in Nord-Rhein Westphalen with our NATO Brigade, we often encountered herds of wild boars rummaging at night. We had to burn all our garbage to prevent them from rooting it up and raising the ire of the Wald Meister.

He also kept a close eye on the game and I don't think he would have been happy with us potting one for a bar-b-que.
 
Sharps '63 said:
I served with vets who told about shooting the tiny Roebuck deer in Germany both for sport and meat. When I was serving in Nord-Rhein Westphalen with our NATO Brigade, we often encountered herds of wild boars rummaging at night. We had to burn all our garbage to prevent them from rooting it up and raising the ire of the Wald Meister.

He also kept a close eye on the game and I don't think he would have been happy with us potting one for a bar-b-que.
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Thanks for the info Sharps. Always welcome to hear new info about such things! :)

Here is a pic of a French WWI device: Barbed Wire Destruction Rod

The device was made with one solid wood end, probably turned on a simple wood lathe. The main body of the device is sheet steel or sheet iron (?). Tradesmen in a factory probably were rolling the steel & rivetting to a cylndrical shape. One of the wooden ends, probably the end with the dowel coming out, was hollowed out & it had a friction igniter possibly like the German stick grenade ignitors. At the other end of the ignitor end dowe, there could have been a well for a military cap or maybe a small booster charge.What went in the device was a payload of 400 grams of Cheddite high explosive, which makes me wonder how powerful the detonator or detonator/booster charge was. They say that Cheddite explosive is difficult to initiate for best results. There was also another device like this but larger, holding 800 grams of Cheddite explosive.

In the WWI era, the French were using a crap ton of Cheddite.

Text from the website:

The explosive rod for barbed wire destructionis a variety of the original improvisated wood rod grenades, dedicated at the beginning of the war for the creation of breeches in the barbed wire networks before the assaults.

Having quite a primitive conception, it is simply a cylinder made with a rolled anb riveted steel plate, plugged at the top with a wooden block, and at the base with a wooden stick . This stick was hollow, making place for a traction igniter setting fire to a powder line cord (representing a 5 seconds delay), linked to the detonators. Those latter cause the explosion of the 400 gr of Cheddite charge, confined in the steel cylinder.

A new model with a doubled explosive charge (800 g), longer, appeared in 1916.
Approx. weight 600 g, including 400 g cheddite (800g on new models)
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Explosive rod for barbed wire destruction - detail showing the rolled steel plate

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Explosive rod for barbed wire destruction - detail showing the solid wooden plug, with the engravings '3-7', meaning delay from 3 to 7 seconds, nominal being 5 seconds... not very precise... ! I would be securing this thing somehow & pulling the ignitor with a landyard! ;p

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Explosive rod for barbed wire destruction. General view of the 'small' 400g cheddite model

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It seems like such a light container for an explosive known to require strong confinement, mimimum weight of charge for anything to happen reliably, and the thin shell makes me wonder if they had a blasting cap & part of a TNT block to boost the Cheddite into working.
 
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