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[MarkCNP]

 

[Sharps '63]

Can you say - "Worn muzzle from using jointed GI cleaning rod."? He'd be better off using the pull through from the butt trap. Were they issued a solution to combat the effects of corrosive primers?

Otherwise, boiling water might be the best solution, but a little tough to come up with in a fox hole in the Ardennes Forest.

 

[fat tony]

Can you say - "Worn muzzle from using jointed GI cleaning rod."? He'd be better off using the pull through from the butt trap. Were they issued a solution to combat the effects of corrosive primers?

Otherwise, boiling water might be the best solution, but a little tough to come up with in a fox hole in the Ardennes Forest.

Barrel shot out quickly?

 

[MarkCNP]

Look out behind you . . .

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[fat tony]

6mm Unified MG

 

[MarkCNP]

 

[fat tony]

Yes - I see now.

A prophet is not accepted in his own country.

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

A gentle reminder, lads - if we could please keep the pics to WW2 or thereabouts, it'd be true to the original intention of the thread. Thanks much.

An example:

The French Amiot company came a long way in five years of development. The A.351 of c. 1938 looked like this:

Very sleek, very French. Belle, non? Go back to 1934 and the brave pilots of the French Air Force were wrassling this stool sample around the sky:

The Amiot 143 was as ugly as any contemporary Tupolev or Whitworth product, but seems somehow more offensive than either. And the poor buggers that crewed them went up against 109Es.

 

[MarkCNP]

 

[Quiet]

My mom said that many boys in her class didn't come back to school after playing with some of the "toys" they found in the ruins of Berlin. A sad occurrence that continues to happen around the world.

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

I recall that pic inside the back cover of reader's Digest's two volume Canada at War.

 

[RRCo.]

I read a book co- written by Chuck Horner (commanded the air forces during '91 Gulf War). They had so many bombs left over from Vietnam that they used up the leftovers bombing the Iraqis.

Ordnance has a life span, or to be more precise the fuses and fillings do. If you don't use them up by the best before date they have to go through an expensive factory overhaul. But what the hell, it's all expensive and when you owe about 18 Trillion, what's a few billion here and there?

http://www.usdebtclock.org/

Those helmets look vaguely familiar ..

Yeh, that's what they look like after 27 coats of paint

 

[scott585]

Ordnance has a life span, or to be more precise the fuses and fillings do. If you don't use them up by the best before date they have to go through an expensive factory overhaul. But what the hell, it's all expensive and when you owe about 18 Trillion, what's a few billion here and there?

from what i hear about our grenades, they dont even last to the expiry date


i hear they were pulling leftovers from ww2 to meet .50 bmg ammo requirements over there more recently. made me wonder why they didnt use em up in training over the last 60 years and keep the newer stuff for the 2 way range

 

[MarkCNP]

I recall that pic inside the back cover of reader's Digest's two volume Canada at War.

The kids are left to pick up the pieces.

 

[Ganderite]

Norway. 2 bladed prop. Must be a very early model.

 

[AP]

Charlie Mann of Kincardine on the right... accepting the Congressional Gold Medal this past Feb as a veteran of the Special Forces (Devil's Brigade)

 

[DOOK]

I bet he could still kick some ass.

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

He looks like he's about to. And the other gent looks like he'd like him to try...

 

[Ganderite]

D-day in Colour (KodaChrome, I assume. ASA 10)

http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/...ent=2015-06-09&utm_campaign=Weekly+Newsletter

 

[Sharps '63]

Norway. 2 bladed prop. Must be a very early model.

Me 109E. Blunt nosed spinner and stabilizer struts. "Any landing you walk away from is a good one."