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Well as far as Old time ad's...my Father was making 2.50 an hour roughnecking in 1965. The wage is about 10 fold to that now. Do run-of-the-mill Milsurps go for 300-400 $ now ( M/N's are the only values left in that range...maybe SKS's)...I know, there is no more run-of-the-mill Milsurps left.
As a publicity stunt to demonstrate the truly gargantuan size of the prototype Martin XPB2M-1 Mars flying-boat, a Piper J-3 Cub was placed on its wing.
The photograph was taken at the Martin Aircraft Factory, Martin State Airport, Baltimore, Maryland, circa 1942.
I've visited the Sproat Lake base of the Martin Mars water bomber in BC.
A Forest Ministry Grumman Goose/Widgeon (?) had just been refurbished and had a great paint job. For a photo-op, they parked it under the wing of the Mars. The wing sponson of the Mars was larger than the fuselage of the Grumman!
Touring the inside of the Mars was a jaw dropper, especially walking inside the wing to the outboard engine so that technically, an engineer could work on it in flight.
A Forest Ministry Grumman Goose/Widgeon (?) had just been refurbished and had a great paint job. For a photo-op, they parked it under the wing of the Mars. The wing sponson of the Mars was larger than the fuselage of the Grumman!
Touring the inside of the Mars was a jaw dropper, especially walking inside the wing to the outboard engine so that technically, an engineer could work on it in flight.
not a mockup, this one was the first, intended to be an anti submarine and troop transport. it had a nose turret and tail turret with .30 cal machineguns
The U.S. Navy Martin XPBM2-1 Mars (BuNo 1520) on the ground on 13 May 1942. This aircraft was later modified as a XPB2M-1R transport. Named "Old Lady", it was beached at Alameda, California (USA) in mid 1945 and subsequently scrapped. The production Martin JRM Mars was the largest Allied flying boat to enter production. Named the "Marianas Mars", "Philippine Mars", "Marshall Mars", "Caroline Mars", and a second "Hawaii Mars", the five production Mars aircraft entered service ferrying cargo to Hawaii and the Pacific Islands.
Besides the the nose, look at the difference in tail surfaces.
Besides the the nose, look at the difference in tail surfaces.
fat tony
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
you might recognize the funny feed arrangement on field modified PT boats with an extra 20mm on the bow
JFK talked about 37mm guns being added to the boats. In the Reader's Digest version I read, it was said they were supposedly putting guns from M5 light tanks on the boats. Something does not add up. There were two versions of the Chrysler autocannon. one was longer with a bigger powder charge. The guns originally came from P39's at Henderson Field. I think the 'horse collar' feed tray/chain/belt held 32 rounds. They were for blowing Japanese supply barges (and junks?) to pieces from what I read.
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Soldiers of the 3rd Canadian Division at sniper training, 1943.
Wouldn't you love to meet them in a dark alley?
Not without the right call sign.
T'would be good to have a fun night in the pub with the gang though. 
I've often wondered about the smarts of using smokers as snipers.
Any soldier or hunter knows that the smell of cigarette smoke carries for hundreds of yards under the right conditions and every country's tobacco has a unique smell.
But in an era when almost everyone smoked, whaddya gonna do?
Any soldier or hunter knows that the smell of cigarette smoke carries for hundreds of yards under the right conditions and every country's tobacco has a unique smell.
But in an era when almost everyone smoked, whaddya gonna do?
Smoke if you gottem. When I joined the Army smoke breaks and smoking seemed compulsory.
My dad learned to smoke in the army, it relieves boredom and stress, he never quit, until it killed him.
Grizz
it seems from very limited pictures that pt109 had a 37mm ATG that was the same basic gun as the m5 but on a carriage. it was probably chained to the bow of the boat. officially, PT boats had nothing but a dingy on the bow but the nature of a theatre full of wrecked equipment and lots of field modifications led to a variety of things. this one has rockets? and a 40mm bofors up front:
Smoke if you gottem. When I joined the Army smoke breaks and smoking seemed compulsory.
Back in the day pretty well everyone smoked and it was common to have 3 or more smoking at the same time in the Herc cockpit. All smoke went by the Navigators station on the way out so that was the smokiest place in the aircraft.
