Nope. Charge handle on the FAL is on the correct side.
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Dark Alley Dan
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They shift 200 to 250 tonnes of UXO a year, and at that rate, they'll be done in NINE HUNDRED YEARS. Good lord, what a job.
Australians at Ypres, adding to the problem:
Australians at Ypres, adding to the problem:
Dark Alley Dan
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Buncha that stuff ended up as impromptu artificial reefs. So much waste at the end of the war. Damn few folks thought about the "long game" - get a couple thousand Arisakas, grease 'em up, put 'em aside, wait forty years, sell 'em, retire.
Imagine the return one could get if they had the space to lay up three Lancasters, or a couple B17s, or a Jagdpanther. Barn fresh, wartime spec, available to the highest bidder...
Imagine the return one could get if they had the space to lay up three Lancasters, or a couple B17s, or a Jagdpanther. Barn fresh, wartime spec, available to the highest bidder...
More like their grandkids would get rich.
Dark Alley Dan
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The longest of "long games"...
It's a good plan, but times (and mentality) changes.
Remember that German guy who had a Panther, V 1 missle and a bunch of other stuff in his basement?
Everyone in the town knew he had it (he apparently cleared roads with it during a blizzard in the late 70's)
Anyways, many years later the government seized all this stuff. I never heard a followup if he ever got compensated for it. Most people polled felt he should have.
Apparently the Bundeswehr didnt tow the Panther away correctly and damaged it.
