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[Gnomey]

Nice shots guys!

 

[fastmongrel]

All dressed up for a mission. The camo smock is interesting it looks like it could be a liberated German smock but there were a few variations of hand made camo issued to snipers so it could as well be British unofficail issue inspired by a German design.

 

[Airframes]

Certainly looks like the German 'pea' pattern smock. Great pic.

 

[fastmongrel]

Australian sniper waiting for trade in the jungle, again using the P14.

 

[GrauGeist]

And now for something a little different...

A Soviet "railroad" torpedo, Red Army designation ZhDT-3, used to assault Axis armored trains.

 

[fubar57]

Now that is very different. I wonder if they just fire them up and send them West.



Geo

 

[Gnomey]

Good shots guys!

 

[fastmongrel]

If they were like the Russian trains I went on about 10 years ago they would be 2 hours late and would stop two stations before the one you wanted or one stop after.

 

[Wurger]

 

[Wildcat]

Hail damage to RAAF mosquito A52-2 whilst on a PR mission over the Philippines in August 1944.

 

[fubar57]

Nice but I sure wasn't expecting the last part of the sentence.



Geo

 

[GrauGeist]

late summer in the Pacific is cyclone season...I bet that Mossie driver had a hellova ride

 

[Airframes]

Interesting shot, apart from the hail damage. I presume that 'fairing' beneath the wing is a mount for the drop tank, the outline of which can be seen on the wing - I'd always wondered how the tank was actually mounted, and what the wing looked like when it was removed/dropped.

 

[Wayne Little]

Hail can sure do some damage....

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Yes,.............................it can.

 

[fastmongrel]

Armoured Bedford truck with a 37mm C.O.W automatic gun. Used for airfield defence.

 

[Airframes]

Nice one !

 

[fubar57]

Nice, off to Google C.O.W. because I'm pretty sure it's not what I think it is......




Geo

EDIT: nothing to do with bovines.

 

[Crimea_River]

Terry, here's a close-up of the mount as seen on Bob Jens' "F for Freddie"

 

[Airframes]

Brilliant!
Thanks Andy - I can incorporate it on the 1/48th scale FB.VI of Noel Shrimpton and Peter Lake, after return from the Shell House raid.