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This defeat caused General Eisenhower, to promptly to relieve Fredenall from his command, and shipped him back to the states
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From the all-knowing Wikipedia, "Author Charles B. MacDonald described Fredendall as a "man of bombast and bravado in speech and manner [who] failed to live up to the image he tried to create." Historian (and retired U.S. Army officer) Carlo D'Este has described Fredendall as "...one of the most inept senior officers to hold a high command during World War II." The 2nd Armored Division commander, Major General Ernest Harmon, in his after-action report for the Kasserine battles, called Fredendall "a son of a #####" and later said he was both a moral and physical coward."
 
maple_leaf_eh said:
From the all-knowing Wikipedia, "Author Charles B. MacDonald described Fredendall as a "man of bombast and bravado in speech and manner [who] failed to live up to the image he tried to create." Historian (and retired U.S. Army officer) Carlo D'Este has described Fredendall as "...one of the most inept senior officers to hold a high command during World War II." The 2nd Armored Division commander, Major General Ernest Harmon, in his after-action report for the Kasserine battles, called Fredendall "a son of a #####" and later said he was both a moral and physical coward."
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How the H... E.... Double Hockey Sticks, does a guy who flunks out of West Point in under a semester, twice, rise to the rank of Lieutenant General?
 
The "Peter Principle" in action.

The gas utility company used to promote it's managerial screw ups to places where they could do the least harm - after serious incidents of incompetence.
 
Yes, our field telephones were bomb proof. They cranked out 90 VDC. You got used to the tingle when splicing broken lines after they were chewed up by an APC. I hear some armies used them for other purposes, applying their voltage to sensitive parts of the body.


AP said:
Yes ... undependable and archaic for sure. However as I mentioned .. I really liked the old field phones! You could drive a tent peg in with one. Drop it in a river ... shake it off and it still worked like a 'Bell Canada' business line.
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Sharps '74 said:
Yes, our field telephones were bomb proof. They cranked out 90 VDC. You got used to the tingle when splicing broken lines after they were chewed up by an APC. I hear some armies used them for other purposes, applying their voltage to sensitive parts of the body.
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IIRC that is the Bell 'ringing voltage' as well.... yes siree they do get your attention ...................... when you least expect it! :) :)
 
purple said:
The BAR was a retrograde step compared to the BREN; no quick change barrel, smaller mag, bottom feed mag, tougher to strip and clean. The BAR was a product of 1917/18, while the BREN represented the next generation in LMGs.

The US infantry made do with the BAR. To some extent its limitations were offset by having every soldier in the squad armed with an M1 Garand. OTOH, we really needed the BREN to compensate for the lack of firepower from troops still cranking away with 1890 design Lee-Enfields.

Our firepower disparities really became obvious in Korea where they were issuing extra BRENs to fill the need. In the post war era we should have re-jigged our BRENs to 7.62 like the Brits did. It would have been much better than the FNC2.
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The US made the BAR worse between the wars. The Poles (FN) however made it an acceptable squad weapon.

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Boulton Paul lll ... a little shorter, fatter and faster
 

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I have one, purchased by me in 1970. I have not used it in many years.
This radio was in the surplus section in the Spillsbury radio store on 4th Avenue in Vancouver.
My old boat achor radio was used on the 80 Meter band, with the C.W. Key that came with the set.
The 40 watts or so, pumped out by the single 807 tube. Produced many contacts in all Provinces, and quite a few States.
Those were very lean years.
It was better than having no radio at all.

I was introduced to the No.19 radio set at Val Cartier in the late 1950's, as part of my training as infantry signaller.
It was already very dated, even then.


sail32 said:
Who remembers or used the 19 radio set ?
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Nihang Sikh with(?) Ishapore .315" Express Rifle, calibre 8x50mm Steyr Rimmed. I would much prefer not to get hit with a 244 gn. r.n. bullet @ 2000 fps. Sounds like a fearsome mid range killer. Don't sell WWI technology short. It seems they were chasing a performance envelope similar to the ones sought today.

The pic is hotlinked under fair use guidelines. Heck I don't care. That is a nice looking stock and rifle.
 
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