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BSA made paratrooper folding bike.Very cool look and idea.
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fat tony said:
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Olav V returns to Oslo, Norway in 1945. Max Manus scans the crowd for threats.

Edit: I think his smg might have actually been an unmarked Husqvarna Submachine gun m/37-39, provided by Sweden.



Source for bottom pic:

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For myself , being a Second World War history buff, this is a very interesting photo, Crown Prince Olav, is wearing what was refered to as pattern 1940"Austerity" battledress jacket, or "economy battledress, that is the buttons are exposed, where as regular issue battledress the buttons were hidden , making it a more smarter uniform , not sure why the Crown Price is wearing this type of battle dress , as someone with his stature and rank , would have been entitled a battledress jacket, that many high ranking officer had privately tailored, also of interest is the Crown Princes holster and handgun, it is neither a US holster for Model 1911 pistol, or a Brit Commonwealth web holster, im thinking the Princes is armed with a Norwegian manufactured 1911, sometimes refered to as a "Kongsberg' colt, after the Norwegian government arsenal


sorry, wrong photo, the Prince is wearing a raincoat in this photo
 
Good observation, he was not Olav V when the photo was taken, but the Crown Prince.

Inserted the pic for reference. :)

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For myself , being a Second World War history buff, this is a very interesting photo, Crown Prince Olav, is wearing what was refered to as pattern 1940"Austerity" battledress jacket, or "economy battledress, that is the buttons are exposed, where as regular issue battledress the buttons were hidden , making it a more smarter uniform , not sure why the Crown Price is wearing this type of battle dress , as someone with his stature and rank , would have been entitled a battledress jacket, that many high ranking officer had privately tailored, also of interest is the Crown Princes holster and handgun, it is neither a US holster for Model 1911 pistol, or a Brit Commonwealth web holster, im thinking the Princes is armed with a Norwegian manufactured 1911, sometimes refered to as a "Kongsberg' colt, after the Norwegian government arsenal
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"Soldier, just what do you think you're doing?"

"Well sir, Sarge told me to move this tank. So I aim to move this tank."

(slow pause) "Carry on."

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AP said:
“But a sacred tradition had been born,” Lindsay writes, and other countries have followed the American example, including Britain, which brought home its dead after the Falklands War with Argentina in 1982."

THE SOURCE: “Rest in Peace?” by Drew Lindsay. MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History, Winter 2013.
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That's interesting, I wasn't aware of that. There are already war cemeteries in the Falklands so the unprecedented decision to bring home the British dead can only mean one thing: the politicians wanted to keep their options open for a future hand-over!

Oddly, they have allowed Argentinian dead to remain buried on the Falklands!
 
NavyShooter said:
At least 38 cans of TNT there that I can count....that's 19 pounds....might make a decent sized dent.
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Blowing up a KO'd/immobile enemy tank was a standard practice to preclude them recovering and repairing it. The picture of the Sherman "crock" park shows what my late uncle and another neighbour did during the war in Europe. The neighbour was involved in recovering KO'd tanks to a secure area for repair. My uncle was a tank fitter who was assigned to a Corps level workshop where they would salvage various AFVs and return them to service, often swapping a good turret from an unusable hull to a good hull with a wrecked turret and the like. Recovery was often pretty dicey because of enemy in the vicinity and the repair operation could be pretty trying as they frequently had to clean human remains from a tank and re-paint the interiors.

My uncle was involved in the hasty conversion of SP guns to APCs for use in operation Totalize in Normandy. It was a round the clock operation with vehicles being overhauled, guns removed and armor plate and sheet steel welded over the gun apertures.
 
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