Picture of the day.

[Airframes]

Got rid of their Bren, and using a captured MG34 - nice one !

 

[GrauGeist]

Got rid of their Bren, and using a captured MG34 - nice one !

Bet there was plenty of ammo available, too!

 

[Glider]

It wasn't unusual to hold German machine guns at battalion level and issue them to boost the firepower for specific operations while the Brens were used on a day to day basis.
There is a small book I recommend called Platoon 18 which is still required reading at Sandhurst. It is simply the deployment of one platoon during WW2 from D Day on. Its used to teach cadets how a platoon should be managed.

In it he describes how on one operation in 1944 where they had intelligence of an upcoming German counter offensive. All the platoons were issued with an Mg42 to boost the firepower. They had a dedicated battery of 25pd guns, 17 pd AT guns to take out the German tanks at a distance and 6pd guns hidden to get side shots. Everything was planned to the last detail and the British were really looking forward to being the defenders for once. Then the Germans didn't turn up. The disappointment was palpable.

Also in here he is open about how they dumped the Stens just as fast as possible and replaced the with MP 40's and when they found some Brenda SMG's they were preferred over the Mp40.

 

[Njaco]

Anthony Eden addresses the assembly at the Royal Albert Hall, London in a salute to the Red Army. 21 FEBRUARY 1943

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[syscom3]

Leading Aircraftman W T Messenger of Barry, South Wales and Aircraftman R J Frost of Brynmill, Swansea, check over the a load of 1,000-lb HE and Small Bomb Containers (SBC) filled with 4lb incendiaries in the bomb bay of a Vickers Wellington Mark X of No. 99 Squadron RAF at Jessore, India, prior to a sortie over Burma.

 

[Lucky13]

 

[Wayne Little]

Top shots, Terry, question for you, how well have those upper Colours represented on the Avengers in that image...

 

[GrauGeist]

Collision between a USAAF B-24 (15th AF, 376th BG, 513th BS) and a SAAF Marauder (HD520 S of 21 Squadron).

San Pancrazio, Italy, 18 October 1944.

 

[Airframes]

Top shots, Terry, question for you, how well have those upper Colours represented on the Avengers in that image...

Reasonably well Wayne. Allowing for the lighting, the lighter shade on the fuselage of the nearest aircraft has a bit of a yellow/brown tone to it, but looks about right on the wings. I've seen various reproductions of this photo, all with differing tonal and colour balance variations. Combine the tones on the wings of the nearest Avenger, and the overall appearance of the second aircraft, and it gives a reasonable reproduction.

 

[Lucky13]

 

[vikingBerserker]

I know it was not popular, but I really like that plane.

 

[Njaco]

On the evening of 9 August a dozen Mosquito VIs from No 253 Squadron and a pair of Mk XVIII 'Tsetses' from No 248 Squadron encountered four Dornier Do217s over the Gironde estuary. This photograph shows a Mosquito orbiting the funeral pyre of one of two Dorniers destroyed in this distinctly one-sided engagement.

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[vikingBerserker]

WOW!

 

[syscom3]

senninbari (thousand stitch belt) for a male member of the family who was in the military and was being shipped out to China, 1937

 

[nuuumannn]

Anthony Eden addresses the assembly at the Royal Albert Hall, London in a salute to the Red Army. 21 FEBRUARY 1943

probably the last time the red flag was flown in the Royal Albert Hall, too!

 

[Lucky13]

 

[Lucky13]

 

[GrauGeist]

Hey Jan, LOOK!!

A FFVS J22 of the Swedish Air Force Wing F13 (Norrköping)

 

[Wildcat]

Cool. I've always liked the look of the J22.

 

[GrauGeist]

Waiting for him to spot the 13