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My grandfather took these somewhere in Europe during WW2
 

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Okinawa, 1949. Surplus collection point.

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I have no idea what happened to them. I'd guess probably melted down for local industry.
 

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A lot of that stuff was made cheap and disposable. We tend to look at this from a collector view but at the time it was just so much scrap metal. There is also the fact that home industries did not want the stuff on the market as they would suffer for the competition.
 
All I need is a time machine and a couple thousand 1945 dollars...

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A picture of my kid brother in Haiti 2010 not long after the earthquake, he was one of the first to arrive and his three day deployment ended up lasting 30 days, luckily he was not new so was prepared for the longer stay. (Big soldier beside the gentleman in a white shirt). I really miss him.
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Front 2 rows are Canadian C15TA armoured trucks , built by GM of Canada, also looks like White scout cars ih the background , these vehicles were given to the Dutch and Belgian forces, they were not shipped back to Canada
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Thanks, I was curious as to what vehicles those were. He did end up in Holland, he was a driver/ mechanic with an Anti Aircraft unit but got loaned to the 5th Anti Tank a couple weeks after Normandy. I inherited a shoebox of pictures and his medals.
 
Here's a story.

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That's the Italian torpedo boat "Aliseo", stationed in Corsica. After the Italian surrender in 1943 and the usual changing of allegiances, she was tasked with dealing with the Germans. She had a gutsy captain (Carlo Fecia di Cossato) and crew. This from Wikipedia:

At midnight on 8/9 September, German marines captured Bastia harbour, damaged the Ardito and massacred seventy of the crew. The merchant ship Humanitas (7,980 gross register tons [GRT]) and a MAS boat were also damaged, but the Aliseo managed to sail at the last moment. The next day, Italian troops counter-attacked and forced the Germans out; the port commander ordered Commander Fecia di Cossato, the captain of Aliseo, to prevent Germans ships in the harbour from escaping. At dawn on 9 September, lookouts on Aliseo spotted German ships leaving the harbour in the early-morning mist and turning north, close to the coast.[12]

Aliseo was outnumbered and outgunned, having only a speed advantage over the German flotilla but closed on the submarine chaser UJ2203 as it opened fire, zig-zagging until 7:06 a.m. to a range of about 8,000 yards, opening fire on the German ships.

At 7:30 a.m. Aliseo was hit in the engine room and brought to a stop but the damage was quickly repaired. Aliseo caught up with the German ships again and hit UJ2203 and some of the barges.

At 8:20 a.m. UJ2203 exploded with the loss of nine of the crew. Aliseo fired on UJ2219 and after ten minutes it exploded and sank. The barges, which were well-armed and had been firing continuously, separated but three were sunk by 8:35 a.m.

At 8:40 a.m. Aliseo attacked another two barges, which were also under fire from Italian shore batteries, and with the assistance of the corvette Cormorano, forced their crews to beach them. Aliseo rescued 25 Germans, but 160 had been killed.
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Capitano di Cossato:

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Note that the camera captured him from the waist up. No room in the frame for his enormous balls.
 
TANK1867 said:
A picture of my kid brother in Haiti 2010 not long after the earthquake, he was one of the first to arrive and his three day deployment ended up lasting 30 days, luckily he was not new so was prepared for the longer stay. (Big soldier beside the gentleman in a white shirt). I really miss him.
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I see his experience taught him to trash the 'ELCAN't' and replace it with an EoTech holosight.
 
I can't speak to his choices on sights at the time as I was not really interested in ARs but I have a picture of him somewhere when he first stepped off the plane and had an AR like his buddy to the right of him. His explanation to me was that he grabbed the C7 off the rack along with a P225 and then onto the plane. He was an MP based in Trenton at the time.
 
Strange and far away (by 1990's standards)

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Members of the Bougainville Revolutionary Army (BRA), many with homemade weapons, gather around a World War II Japanese 20 mm cannon that was reconditioned at the Panguna mine workshops and used to deadly effect against the Papua New Guinea Defence Force (PNGDF). In 1994, one of the PNGDF’s Iroquois helicopters, donated by Australia, was reportedly shot down by this gun in the hills above Koromira, south-east Bougainville. Photograph by Ben Bohane, 1994. AWM P04580.065
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20, or 25 mm?

To me it is more likely to be an IJN Type 96 Model 1 25 mm single mounting AA gun. I guess the original wheeled mount was lost to history by 1994. The FAL looks very 'Imperial' if you get me.
 
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