Crawling out on the wing of his wounded "Tiffy" to avoid hitting the tail! Then flying ops again almost immediately. Talk about balls.
And pussies like us are letting a ball-less wonder threaten to disarm us with hardly a whimper .....
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Crawling out on the wing of his wounded "Tiffy" to avoid hitting the tail! Then flying ops again almost immediately. Talk about balls.
And pussies like us are letting a ball-less wonder threaten to disarm us with hardly a whimper .....
I know that this thread is for history, but this is history now...
Awesome display , I never did see the rubber bandoliers when I was in , joined in 71, at the range the ammo was in boxes , and we loaded our mags , one round at a time , scope is a nice find , fairly rare I’m sure
IMHO - You didn't miss much with the rubber bandos. They were greasy and a PITA when you had sweaty hands. Almost like they had coconut oil on them or some other unknown substance
fat tony
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What is the orange handled tool, and the apparent C2 magazine with a bit of aluminium sticking out? A long serving nco said they had trained with the spigot and M61 grenade around 1974 & no more was seen of them.
Was there a Cdn. designation for the M61?
Was there a Cdn. designation for the M61?
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Looks like US. Soldiers.
any more pictures or explanation? i have never heard of this accessory
the other thing is a mandril for repairing bent or dented mags
fat tony
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
Bogarde was a type of intel officer whose job it was to pick targets for RAF Bomber Command. I guess the common US term in more recent times was bomb damage assessment. In S.E. A. the MACVSOG (spelling) did this. Anyways here is what he said in a 1986 interview:
The "what looks like a C2 magazine" is actually a mandrel for reforming the C2 magazine there was also a shorter one for doing the 20 round magazines. What looks like aluminum is just a reduced width area to clamp in a vice.
The orange handled tool is used for reforming the lips on the magazines - put said tool on top of the lips and whack with a hammer.
Both mandrels worked quite well.
The orange handled tool is used for reforming the lips on the magazines - put said tool on top of the lips and whack with a hammer.
Both mandrels worked quite well.
fat tony
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
Well at that time there were no magazine repair mandrels in our unit that I knew of. I suppose you had to send your mags away to Montreal to get fixed. Pretty much anything mildly fussy had to be repaired in this way. Not sure how that would have worked in a war. The workaround to avoid this USSR like bureaucracy was sneaky switcheroos of your magazines for known bad ones when nobody was looking. Guess how I fared in that game!
MGM-18 Lacrosse Missile in Cold Weather Trials at Churchill, Manitoba
The MGM-18 Lacrosse was a short-ranged tactical ballistic weapon intended for close support of ground troops. Its first flight test was in 1954 and was deployed by the US Army beginning in 1959, despite being still in the development stage. The program's many technical hurdles proved too difficult to overcome and the missile was withdrawn from field service by 1964.
The Lacrosse is mounted on an XM398 launcher that was based on the American REO Studebaker M35 2-½-ton truck. The Lacrosse was trialed in Canada, but Canadians used the Honest John launch truck. This photo is of American equipment being tested in Churchill so the truck is American and the paper on the door is likely covering up the US Army white star. There are none in Canada and the Canadian Army did not put it in service.
The MGM-18 Lacrosse was a short-ranged tactical ballistic weapon intended for close support of ground troops. Its first flight test was in 1954 and was deployed by the US Army beginning in 1959, despite being still in the development stage. The program's many technical hurdles proved too difficult to overcome and the missile was withdrawn from field service by 1964.
The Lacrosse is mounted on an XM398 launcher that was based on the American REO Studebaker M35 2-½-ton truck. The Lacrosse was trialed in Canada, but Canadians used the Honest John launch truck. This photo is of American equipment being tested in Churchill so the truck is American and the paper on the door is likely covering up the US Army white star. There are none in Canada and the Canadian Army did not put it in service.
Good history lesson for many who wouldnt realize that there was a fairly large ‘cross border’ training program with American (and British) personnel in Fort Churchill .... I think it started shortly after the Korean war and continued for a number of years.
The MGM-18 Lacrosse was a short-ranged tactical ballistic weapon intended for close support of ground troops. Its first flight test was in 1954 and was deployed by the US Army beginning in 1959, despite being still in the development stage. The program's many technical hurdles proved too difficult to overcome and the missile was withdrawn from field service by 1964.
The Lacrosse is mounted on an XM398 launcher that was based on the American REO Studebaker M35 2-½-ton truck. The Lacrosse was trialed in Canada, but Canadians used the Honest John launch truck. This photo is of American equipment being tested in Churchill so the truck is American and the paper on the door is likely covering up the US Army white star. There are none in Canada and the Canadian Army did not put it in service.
