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[Higgs602]

True, he probably didn't deserve such a dignity.

 

[AP]

Surprising they executed a convicted war criminal , allowing him the dignity of dying in uniform.

Grizz

I believe that Dostler being executed in uniform may be a jurisdictional issue ..I suspect that a United States Military Commission would not have authority to order the execution of a civilian (except in specific circumstances).

 

[Machinegun Al]

for some reason i cant see the pictures

 

[infideleggwelder]

The army dispensed with puttees in WW2 and wore gaiters made of webbing. After the war they returned to puttees, as did the Brits. I've heard that puttees were a Gen Guy Simonds preference, as were things like devising the Canadian Guards, a new post war regiment with no historical predecessors.

I don't know WTF they went back to puttees when many other armies had made the move to high top boots. The 3rd Cdn Div was equipped with high top boots for the Normandy invasion. As I recall, we wore puttees up to 1967/68 or so.

Knew an old Sgt in the PPCLI that was asked by base supply in the mid-90`s to go find his puttees, AND lead pant weights to turn in when he was retiring. We were starting to trial the CADPAT uniform then. I never heard of lead weights for the pant legs.

 

[green]

Knew an old Sgt in the PPCLI that was asked by base supply in the mid-90`s to go find his puttees, AND lead pant weights to turn in when he was retiring. We were starting to trial the CADPAT uniform then. I never heard of lead weights for the pant legs.

Weights made the trousers blouse out over the puttees.
They were tube of cloth with 1/2"x .3" lead inside.
Salvaged some once that had .303" bullets for weight.

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

The good folks at the Beriev Locomotive and Flying Machine Works have now made a military sale of their Be-200ES water bomber:

And it swims, too!

Neat looking bird. Saw one parked on the apron in Ft. Mac once. Surprising sighting, that was.

 

[x westie]

Weights made the trousers blouse out over the puttees.
They were tube of cloth with 1/2"x .3" lead inside.
Salvaged some once that had .303" bullets for weight.

When I joined the Militia in 1971 I was issued Battledress for parade , but no weights , I made my own by using 2 pieces of heavy machinery chain, measuring them equally, then wiring each of them together, and wrapped tape around each of them , worked out good

 

[arancio]

We used 9mm projectiles strung in a boot lace.

 

[Auggie Doggie]

A fellow in our hunt camp got into the sauce and told us about one incident. We were horrified to hear what he had done, and looked at him differently ever since/

This is why vets don't talk. We weren't there and cannot really understand.

One of my great uncles joined the service to do his part, but was not deemed combat worthy or whatever the correct term is. Instead he was assigned to recovering bodies in England after bombing raids. He also worked as an orderly in hospitals. What he saw left him a shell of a man. As a youngster I always remember him as being a bit "odd", but never understood why until I was older, after his passing.

Auggie D.

 

[Grizzly Adams]

Jet propelled sea planes are a rarity for obvious reasons. There's a video of one of these, taking off , at about 5 minutes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNQ9hnJMiY8

Grizz

 

[purple]

Knew an old Sgt in the PPCLI that was asked by base supply in the mid-90`s to go find his puttees, AND lead pant weights to turn in when he was retiring. We were starting to trial the CADPAT uniform then. I never heard of lead weights for the pant legs.

Weights were never an issue item. They were made or purchased from the MLS (pre-CANEX).

 

[millwright]

In cadets back in the 70's we took winterboot laces cut the ends off and filled them with small fishing weights. And then tied the ends together. But we also used masking tape before wrapping the putties.

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

One is reminded that the Tupolev Design Bureau was never issued a "French curve". All lines on blueprints were straight. TB-3 is indicative of this.

 

[CV32]

Note fortunate Comrade Nose Gunner - unlimited visibility, plenty of fresh air.

And roughly -14 deg C at altitude.

 

[infideleggwelder]

Weights were never an issue item. They were made or purchased from the MLS (pre-CANEX).

He may have just had them in his kitbag full of battle dress items the supply section wanted back

 

[AP]

17874193[/URL]]Weights were never an issue item. They were made or purchased from the MLS (pre-CANEX).

Here’s a set of ‘industrial strength’ trouser weights ... machined brass .... would make an effective weapon if you had to leave your web belt at the ‘hat check’

 

[grelmar]

One of my great uncles joined the service to do his part, but was not deemed combat worthy or whatever the correct term is. Instead he was assigned to recovering bodies in England after bombing raids. He also worked as an orderly in hospitals. What he saw left him a shell of a man. As a youngster I always remember him as being a bit "odd", but never understood why until I was older, after his passing.

Auggie D.

My grandfather spent the war as a welder for the RCAF. His entire wartime career was spent in North Ontario cutting kids out of their planes when they failed their solo exams, which was an obscenely regular occurrence through the war, with the pressure to turn out pilots reducing training to, well, below minimum.

After the war, he worked hard on the pipelines until retirement, was good to his wife and kids, and grand kids, but he started every morning with beer, and finished every evening with whiskey. I never once saw the man sober. Every now and then he'd go to the Legion, and really drink.

 

[diopter]

A BL 14 inch MK VII gun barrel pictured being fitted to B Turret during the fitting out of King George V Class Battleship HMS Duke of York at John Brown & Company Shipyards at Clydeside in July 1941.

 

[NoDanger]

 

[Sharps '74]

Fighting in the Scheldt Estuary?