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[plinker 777]

Happy new year Gunnutz New day new picture

Cheers
Joe

Weird boots. Note the buckles in the fore ground and the guy to the left.

 

[Caleb314]

Their boots seem normal, the only thing a bit off I saw was that they are using vz 24s and not k98s

 

[jwhc]

Good day fellow Gunnutz New day new picture

Cheers
Joe

 

[NavyShooter]

HE-111 Cockpit!

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[Dark Alley Dan]

One would get quite the view, flying a greenhouse like that. Und alzo grow excellent tomatoes!

 

[RRCo.]

Happy new year Gunnutz New day new picture

Cheers
Joe

Re-enactor wankers?

Notice the cap is still on the bottom of the grenade handle.

 

[O'Kelly's Boys]

HE-111 Cockpit!

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Not that a couple mm of aluminum is much, but laying on a matress overtop of that greenhouse while over the target would give me cause for concern when the flak started or attacking fighters were incoming, brrrr.....

 

[jwhc]

Good day Gunnutz New day new picture !!

Cheers
Joe

 

[NavyShooter]

Is that 2nd guy from the right carrying a BAR?

 

[zuke]

Sure look's like it.

 

[AdrianM]

Amazing that those gents are smiling considering what they must have been experiencing.

 

[Gibbs505]

Amazing that those gents are smiling considering what they must have been experiencing.

They were proberly winning then ....................

 

[NAA]

Amazing that those gents are smiling considering what they must have been experiencing.

Hadn't met the Marines yet.


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NAA.

 

[36 hamon]

it looks like a bar and in his hand it looks like the mag for it

 

[JP]

Probably, mopping up what was left of the American Army in the Phillipines.

 

[tiriaq]

With the 26s, I wonder if the photo was not taken in China. Can't tell if the BAR is a D or not.

 

[36 hamon]

i kinda wondered about that being a D as well but i think its just a bar

 

[smellie]

Could be a Colt Monitor; they were available to anyone who had the money, back before the 1934 NFA.

Even after that, export sales were okay.

Various Governments sold off a lot of stuff right after War One; China bought huge amounts of just about everything.

 

[JP]

Yep after looking closer, probably China. Could those be Chinese issue ZB-26 LMGs?

 

[angrysoldier]

I recently interviewed a former Halifax rear gunner, and later pilot, who survived a full tour of duty in 1943/44. While serving as a rear gunner his main effort was to watch for enemy night fighters and instruct the pilot when to take evasive action. He only fired his guns on one occasion after being engaged by an enemy fighter. Basically the idea was to avoid firing unless fired at because in doing so your tracer lit you up for any night fighter in the vicinity. He described his eyes aching from the effort to remain constantly vigilant throughout a night mission. His bomber went unscathed except for one time when it was hit by AA fire and he was wounded. He described the stress and fear levels as very high and remarked that he had watched a lot of young men grow old in a short period of time.

was his name sid roper? i worked at a nursing home in halifax and one of the residents was a tail gunner in ww2. he lost both of his legs to a night fighter attack. he had very few stories he wanted to tell.