ky wonder
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they just forgot to swing there bayonets into position on their type 56 sks
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they just forgot to swing there bayonets into position on their type 56 sks
dasnake
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P-38 story
My old man drove carrier from '40 to '45 with the Seaforth Highlanders, when he came home ( Vancouver B.C.) he brought a few trophys home one was a P-38.
Now I don't know how, why or whatever but it went into the VA hospital with him his stuff was locked away but it got stolen and he regretted that decision for a long long time, so did I.
My old man drove carrier from '40 to '45 with the Seaforth Highlanders, when he came home ( Vancouver B.C.) he brought a few trophys home one was a P-38.
Now I don't know how, why or whatever but it went into the VA hospital with him his stuff was locked away but it got stolen and he regretted that decision for a long long time, so did I.
dasnake
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P-38 story
My old man drove carrier from '40 to '45 with the Seaforth Highlanders, when he came home ( Vancouver B.C.) he brought a few trophys home one was a P-38.
Now I don't know how, why or whatever but it went into the VA hospital with him his stuff was locked away but it got stolen and he regretted that decision for a long long time, so did I.
My old man drove carrier from '40 to '45 with the Seaforth Highlanders, when he came home ( Vancouver B.C.) he brought a few trophys home one was a P-38.
Now I don't know how, why or whatever but it went into the VA hospital with him his stuff was locked away but it got stolen and he regretted that decision for a long long time, so did I.
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Texas Star
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Carrier? You mean a Bren gun carrier? Does Canada have a VA system like the USA, or had he moved here by then? Did he qualify for US VA aid for war service in Canada?
Sorry about that P-38.
British troops returning home after the war got dire warnings about bringing captured arms, and many were thrown in the Channel.
But author Robert C. Ruark saw many, both Allied and Axis guns in Kenya in the 1950's. The Mau-Mau Emergency brought all manner of guns out in the open. Kenya cops usually had S&W .38's, maybe some Webleys. But I saw a photo of one wearing a US GI .45 auto on the usual pistol belt. And read a book by a police reservist who carried his own Browning 9mm.
Sorry about that P-38.
British troops returning home after the war got dire warnings about bringing captured arms, and many were thrown in the Channel.
But author Robert C. Ruark saw many, both Allied and Axis guns in Kenya in the 1950's. The Mau-Mau Emergency brought all manner of guns out in the open. Kenya cops usually had S&W .38's, maybe some Webleys. But I saw a photo of one wearing a US GI .45 auto on the usual pistol belt. And read a book by a police reservist who carried his own Browning 9mm.
I had a neighbor that lived a couple doors down at Christina Lake, B.C. he had at least half a dozen P-08 pistols that according to him were bring backs from WWI. They were on display like a collection. He had a job with the Provincial Government that was on the equivalent of a State Representative and was an attorney as well. I asked him about their legality regarding the Canadian restriction of handgun ownership. He was in his cups and replied that it wasn't so much about limited ownership as it was about who did the owning.
dasnake
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They called it a personnel carrier, now don't recall him mentioning it that way but I would imagine they could be dealt with that way, he carried a 303 and his sgt carried a firearm and his main job was wounded recovery after battle, one story I have is after coming back from one battle the CO called him into the tent and asked which route they came, the old man points out which way and the CO says great now we have a path and don't have to mine sweep. Your welcome!!! Yeah we have a VA as you do and you have to fight tooth and nail for every little thing, we never moved south I always chastised him for that as he had a job offer in the San Diego shipyards we were always in kanada.
He was a little 5'7" indian but he was a thorn in the VA backside.
Christina lake? Been there many a time.
Doug M.
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Rather than quote the whole posting, which would be obnoxious, I will just point out that the knowledge demonstrated is a really good example of what I meant in my response. There are people who have interests and knowledge that are truly impressive. Think about what we see in some strings about old revolvers - and then apply that to some TV show.
Ask me about a bayonet, and it is a pointy big knife that is attached to a rifle.
Puller
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Hollywood and the main stream media are kissing cousins and they've both been lying to us for over 75 years.
LVSteve
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My beef is with shows like "Top 10 Bombers" where they talk about one aircraft while showing film of something entirely different.
dasnake
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Texas yur jogging my memory
When I joined the reserves in '64 we carried the FNC1A1 and we had training at a camp on vancouver island, mortar, bazooka and bren gun, I told the old man how much fun the bren was, he said ya he had one on the carrier, the deal was he being a private was the driver and he had a Sgt who was with him the whole run and trusted the old man implicity.
He told me another story, ( I know a lot of guys never talked about the wars, but my mother was a dutch war bride and ran against the germans in Amsterdam so it didn't. take much prodding at the kitchen table in the 50s) a unit they were attached to had one guy who wore a bren gun, they were house cleaning and as the guys came around a corner a german nest would take them out, this guy came around and when they opened up he jumped into the air firing the bren and when he came down the nest was down, he had a lot of those stories but also some forays into the fun side that they would get into.
Another thing is him being a carrier driver he had a buddy who rode a hog as a DR, our families were friends until the end, first my mother in '74 then my old man in '03.
Art passed just this year at 101, his wife passed last month at 93, the thing was his son passed in '10 so Art and I stayed close until this year, war buddy and son staying in touch after a war buddy and son both passed, life is interesting isn't it.
When I joined the reserves in '64 we carried the FNC1A1 and we had training at a camp on vancouver island, mortar, bazooka and bren gun, I told the old man how much fun the bren was, he said ya he had one on the carrier, the deal was he being a private was the driver and he had a Sgt who was with him the whole run and trusted the old man implicity.
He told me another story, ( I know a lot of guys never talked about the wars, but my mother was a dutch war bride and ran against the germans in Amsterdam so it didn't. take much prodding at the kitchen table in the 50s) a unit they were attached to had one guy who wore a bren gun, they were house cleaning and as the guys came around a corner a german nest would take them out, this guy came around and when they opened up he jumped into the air firing the bren and when he came down the nest was down, he had a lot of those stories but also some forays into the fun side that they would get into.
Another thing is him being a carrier driver he had a buddy who rode a hog as a DR, our families were friends until the end, first my mother in '74 then my old man in '03.
Art passed just this year at 101, his wife passed last month at 93, the thing was his son passed in '10 so Art and I stayed close until this year, war buddy and son staying in touch after a war buddy and son both passed, life is interesting isn't it.
vigil617
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I watched Combat! last night and, wouldn't you know it, the first thing my eye went to when the intro came on was those upside-down bayonet tips that I had never paid attention to before.
steveno
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so how can a bayonet have the points wrong when it only attach to a rifle one way. I was in avionics and they didn't trust us with guns or pointy things and for probably good reason
HOUSTON RICK
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Few TV soldiers would pass the inspection before the mission. If I want realism, I watch a documentary, if I want a story; I watch a movie. Few have both.
This is the Brit Ford (Weapons Carrier), they also built one very similar by GMC. I'm not sure why they were snub nosed, possibly to deal with narrow roadways. I ran across a GMC model in an old wrecking yard and scavenged quite a few early GMC parts off it while working on a 40's era GMC pickup. They were used by all of the Brit military which included Canada, and Australia. Marmon-Herrington four wheel drive.
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Black Sheep was filmed just Southwest of Interstate 5 and Highway 126 in Southern California at an off-road motorcycle park called Indian Dunes.
I use to chuckle when I'd see a string of power lines or the glint off a car's windshield on a highway in the background.
dasnake
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The carriers I'm referring to were full track, the old man used to tell us before they left in '40 they were stationed in north vancouver and he would come down the hills spinning uturns on the tarmac, 22 years old I don't really think he had an iota of thought of how his life for the next 5 years was going to be and being one of 7 and being the only one to come back, albeit different, malaria, half a lung gone due to TB, and a leg injury, never whined about it, never brought up the racism because of his héritage, just wanted to get back to real life.
This is the Brit Ford (Weapons Carrier), they also built one very similar by GMC. I'm not sure why they were snub nosed, possibly to deal with narrow roadways. I ran across a GMC model in an old wrecking yard and scavenged quite a few early GMC parts off it while working on a 40's era GMC pickup. They were used by all of the Brit military which included Canada, and Australia. Marmon-Herrington four wheel drive.
The carriers I'm referring to were full track, the old man used to tell us before they left in '40 they were stationed in north vancouver and he would come down the hills spinning uturns on the tarmac, 22 years old I don't really think he had an iota of thought of how his life for the next 5 years was going to be and being one of 7 and being the only one to come back, albeit different, malaria, half a lung gone due to TB, and a leg injury, never whined about it, never brought up the racism because of his héritage, just wanted to get back to real life.
2tall79
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It bugs me to no end every time I hear any one on a radio say "Over and Out"....you're either saying you're over or your saying you're out. Can't be both.
Look at post #20. The army cut down a bunch of the 16" 1905 bayonets to 10". In the post, the point of the bayonet is on the bottom instead of the top.
Oh, the horror!
Thanks for this Rusty.
I was most confused by the original post about bayonets pointing the wrong way.
I have 4 rifles, and one shotgun that have bayonet mounts. I've been trying to mount the bayonet pointing in the wrong direction with zero success.
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Texas Star
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Thanks for this Rusty.
I was most confused by the original post about bayonets pointing the wrong way.
I have 4 rifles, and one shotgun that have bayonet mounts. I've been trying to mount the bayonet pointing in the wrong direction with zero success.
The pics referred to are ARTIST's interpretations of fixed bayonets depicted between scenes. Not real bayonets. They also used stylized explosions. The images shown here should unconfuse you. They drew the picture blades upside down.
Watch episodes on YouTube. Was usually a good series.
Sometimes, I do nitpick about real items, like the white hunter's Sten gun changing from a MK II to a MK III in scenes in Safari, a good 1956 film with Victor Mature and Janet Leigh. Has a man-eating lion as well as Mau-Mau terrorists. Again, see YouTube.
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