Yup my bad, I knew it was a Molins! Bugged if I know why I said Polston!!
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Yup my bad, I knew it was a Molins! Bugged if I know why I said Polston!!
Same gun, but on front of a MTB also fitted to MGBs, some boats had a mounting fore and aft.
Or twin 37mm's ......one Ace Stuka pilot alone (Rudel) took out over 500 tanks!!! (he flew 2200 odd sortiesRight basic , flexible design , right place and right time ... what always astounds me is the Tsetse ? version fitted with a Quick Firing Field Gun .... bet that version really rattled the Germans when developed and issued to Squadrons
Or twin 37mm's ......one Ace Stuka pilot alone (Rudel) took out over 500 tanks!!! (he flew 2200 odd sorties
ATB, Ed
Or twin 37mm's ......one Ace Stuka pilot alone (Rudel) took out over 500 tanks!!! (he flew 2200 odd sorties
ATB, Ed
Thread digression .... I believe we did something similar with the Hurricane .... but a larger calibre ...
... back on thread .
I think that “The squadron led by Rudel claimed 500 tanks, most of which were then attributed to him regardless of which pilot was actually responsible. Some of their claims might have been true.” would be somewhat more realistic.
If you say so.I am in aviation and have built and restored WW2 fighters to flying condition in the past, and in that time of my career met all sorts of ex RAF combat veteran crew,
I was basing my take from a piece I watched a little while back by a German historian who posts videos on youtube under “Military Aviation History”. It’s either one of his videos or a collaboration he did on “The Chieftain”s channel.but many folk can't seem stand the fact that the German pilots because of unique demands and time in combat acquired the biggest scores in air combat history, the dust has settled, all their claims have been examined and gone over for years by first our intelligence people and later historians, but the numbers are still eye watering enough for even a sceptic surely.
6 pounder QF Polson with an auto loader developed by the British Cigarette Machine company. It’s the same gun as fitted to RN coastal forces, like on the Motor Gun Boats.
The photos I’ve got there are from the IWM archives. I was looking at the RNPS in Lowestoft’s Harbour during WW2. We had quite a collection of fast boats here, MGBs and MTBs. Worth a look if you like fast boats!The 6pdr QF with a Molins auto-loader was one of two options fitted to MGBs at the end of the war. The other, which used the same mounting was a 4.5in howitzer - a modern version of the old carronade.
The gunner decended unharmed a ways away, by now a general alert was on and a young female ARP walking back from a duty saw a shadowy figure near a road, accousted him and took him by the arm and led him to the Police station, getting a medal for her nerve later.
Wasn’t the Pilots Iron Cross was it?and took him by the arm and led him to the Police station, getting a medal for her nerve later.