If you are seeking info on the Babiole tractors/conversions just resort to Google, What Babiole did was take all the Ketts they could and "reverse engineer" them to drive "backwards". Simca (France) produced a KK version for the wehrmacht so the two source streams of bodies where there before production of actual tractors could recommence post war. You should see some of the wild home made cars made from Schwimmwagens and Kübels, some crude and some a very high degree of workmanship, cars had a low priority over trucks in the years immediately after the war.
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Dark Alley Dan
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The French aviation industry produced two kinds of aircraft - prewar antiaerodynamic horrors and postwar segsy AF sleek things. Bit of chronological spillover here - some of the prewar stuff was gorgeous - but generally speaking there was the homely sh!te before Adolf popped by in 1940 and the stunners after he left in 1944.
Case in point - the Dassault 312 is a bit portly, but it works. Great looking bird:
Before the war, they made these:
if a garden shed and a quonset hut love each other very much...
Case in point - the Dassault 312 is a bit portly, but it works. Great looking bird:
Before the war, they made these:
if a garden shed and a quonset hut love each other very much...
fat tony
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https://www.veterans.gc.ca/en/remembrance/memorials/canadian-virtual-war-memorial/681016
Lieutenant George Boyd Dougharty RCN
November 10, 1928 - April 2, 1959
Steady boys, steady.
Lieutenant George Boyd Dougharty RCN
November 10, 1928 - April 2, 1959
Steady boys, steady.
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https://www.veterans.gc.ca/en/remembrance/memorials/canadian-virtual-war-memorial/681016
Lieutenant George Boyd Dougharty RCN
Steady boys, steady.
Rest easy, Sir and crew.
Dark Alley Dan
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Friedrich has a sh!t day. One of a series.
"Vy don't you smile, Field Marshal? You are varm and safe, yes?"
"Vy don't you smile, Field Marshal? You are varm and safe, yes?"
Well its easy to forget that the US restricted a lot of Milsurps in 1968, and that Canada shortly after followed suit. Little ATF booklet on the subject -> https://archive.org/details/atf-ide...the-purview-of-the-national-firearms-act-1987
Dark Alley Dan
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Guenter liked the new corporal. Couldn't understand a word he said, but he didn't yell at him like the old Obergefreiter, and he allowed him to practice his art.
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Good old SMLE rifle
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WW2 Africa, King's African Rifles
Idi Amin's old unit !
Yes, but it's an Indian or Pakistani refurb.
Looks to be a private "contractor" or military advisor inspecting it.
Looks to be well maintained.
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Soon to be landing on the Kitimat coast with a lot of Chinese packed in beside those tanks
fingers284
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Just doing a quick check to see if "numbers matching"
Somehow, I doubt that. More likely curiosity for a platform he was unfamiliar with.
I suspect your reply was in jest?????
You would be surprised at how many people these days have no idea what a No1 MkIII Lee Enfield is, or how many combatants have never seen or held one.
A 303 bolt action rifle is just as dangerous today as it was 110 years ago.
