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Great account! What a mish-mash of aircraft to keep flying. I find it interesting that the Finns make good use of the Brewster Buffalo whereas the Brit and the American Buffaloes were shot out of the sky in droves by the Japanese.

I had a Finnish friend who had a lot of pictures of himself and others in Finnish/German kit dating from the time they allied with Germany against Russia following the Winter War.
 
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Australian troops in typical jungle terrain near Lae, Papua New Guines, during the offensive against the Japanese, Dec. 1943
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What exactly does the Commonwealth have against Aussies? They seem to have been consistently shipped off to some of the most gawdawful places to try and fight a war.
 
They don't stop fighting for tea time, just slug down a beer or two as they fight. I've worked with quite a few Aussie squash and tennis pros.
 
Aussie had a vested interested in protecting their families from the atrocities the Japanese forces were committing so close to their shores.
 
Australians of the ASAS, Vietnam, 1968:

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Interesting that everyone in this nasty little mob got a grenade launcher. Bruces from hell.

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And this lot got like twenty harmonicas each. Doesn't seem fair somehow.
 
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"Canadian sniper at the Battle of Ortona."

A P14 with a Warney and Swasey scope in use in WWII?
New optics must have been hard to get, or they took the complete rifle and scope from some regiment's museum.
 
Happy 100th anniversary to the Royal Canadian Air Force No. 401 Squadron, which had its origins in No. 81 (Canadian) Squadron (formed November 1918).

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diopter said:
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Picture captioned:
"Canadian sniper at the Battle of Ortona."

A P14 with a Warney and Swasey scope in use in WWII?
New optics must have been hard to get, or they took the complete rifle and scope from some regiment's museum.
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not unusual, the troops in the Italian campaign were using No1MkIII enfields and a mix of US equipment/weapons. It wasn't till D-Day that the Cdn divisions were all equipped with No4 rifles and Stens
 
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I was wondering what's the deal with balls on chains on Israeli tanks...Are they are anti-RPG installation?This T-72 seems to have gone nuts with them.

That's one good way to employ welders in Syria.Lots of work doing cage ,chains like that and installing all of it.
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Same idea as slat armour (take a look at the LAVs and Leo 2s when they were in Afghanistan) to force shaped charge rounds to detonate prematurely (as MattE93

You also see them at the back of the turret on Israeli Merkavas

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Wow! From F-86 to DHC 3. I've spent quite a few hrs in right hand seat in the old otter. Ground goes by pretty slow. Makes map reading easy. Met a guy at Armed Forces Day at Borden a few years back. He flew otters in RCAF reserve. Said it takes a while to get the old girl up to 10,000 feet. MNR "inherited" some ex RCAF otters. Couple were written off in flying accidents. Tough old bird. My favourite !
 
woodchopper said:
not unusual, the troops in the Italian campaign were using No1MkIII enfields and a mix of US equipment/weapons. It wasn't till D-Day that the Cdn divisions were all equipped with No4 rifles and Stens
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Canadians carried No.4 Enfields ashore in Sicily and throughout the Italian campaign.
 
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