Did the army consider using German equipment?

[Mölders 1]

Having captured an Upkeep mine, they reverse engineered it. I'm sure I've read "within ten days" but without the text in front of me, I blame faulty memory.

Not understanding the importance of backspin, they tried to rocket assist it to stop it matching the speed of the plane that dropped it. Gave up in 44.

Bouncing bomb - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

Are you thinking of the weapon nicknamed "Kurt"?

 

[Themanwho]

Just as well - none of them appear to be carrying any ammo.

Au contraire, 15 rounds in the M1, and ten a piece in the SMLEs. That's enough to deal with a Platoon of Nips before they can shout "By Shinto - Aieeee!", and then a spot of bayonet practice against their Samurai sword wielding officer.

 

[Bacongrills]

After the successful crossing of the Rhine allied forces captured the IG Faben sauerkraut works fully intact, however after 12 months of tests no one could find any possible use for the stuff except for filling in bomb craters.

 

[AlienFTM]

Are you thinking of the weapon nicknamed "Kurt"?

See link provided. Yes.

 

[par avion]

Good to see Mad Mike Calvert held on to his SMLE whilst exercising Command Indication.

And not a LGBTQ flag in sight. Although I believe Mike had some dodgy dealings after the war in BAOR, in 1952.

 

[Bodenplatte]

Au contraire, 15 rounds in the M1, and ten a piece in the SMLEs. That's enough to deal with a Platoon of Nips before they can shout "By Shinto - Aieeee!", and then a spot of bayonet practice against their Samurai sword wielding officer.

Shaw's men probably hadn't left enough - not long before this photo was taken Rfn Tul Bahadur Pun had personally disposed of four Japs shot, three bayonetted, and thirty by flamethrower.

 

[Bodenplatte]

And not a LGBTQ flag in sight. Although I believe Mike had some dodgy dealings after the war in BAOR, in 1952.

Yes. A tragic story.

 

[Zemlyak]

After the successful crossing of the Rhine allied forces captured the IG Faben sauerkraut works fully intact, however after 12 months of tests no one could find any possible use for the stuff except for filling in bomb craters.

Sauerkraut filled pierogis, especially with mushrooms added, yum.
Bigos. yum yum
Sauerkraut soup
Salad with sauerkraut
Sauerkraut with smoked sausage and hams, and a big jug of beer, or a bottle of vodka. Yum

That's just for starters

Where are these bomb craters? The sauerkraut might be just about ready for digging out by now.

 

[LeoRoverman]

The German 8th Army?

My family Both German and British seem to have an affinity with 8's In the first lot all three of My Great Uncles was in the German 8th and Dad and FIL were both in the 8th in Africa in the second lot.

 

[LeoRoverman]

Wot! Did the DAK really wear sandals WITH SOCKS?

View attachment 492479

Edited to correct the identity of the miscreants.

Twas quite fashionable out there when I were a kid.

 

[Red Hander]

Just of interest in the 'wtf' category - Famo 18 ton half tracks in Indochina, post WW2:

 

[NSP]

Well, a Barnacle could fall off

That's basically why they've got hard-hats on. At the risk of stating the obvious, it's not in case the supports collapse and drop BFO submarine on them...

 

[putteesinmyhands]

That's basically why they've got hard-hats on. At the risk of stating the obvious, it's not in case the supports collapse and drop BFO submarine on them...

That's why they're wearing steel toe caps.

 

[Goldbricker]

That's basically why they've got hard-hats on. At the risk of stating the obvious, it's not in case the supports collapse and drop BFO submarine on them...

Really?

 

[NSP]

Really?

Yeah - a plastic lid is really going to stop you getting blatted by falling pipe/cable/submarine...? It's there for nuts and bolts - literally!

[/wah]

 

[NSP]

That's why they're wearing steel toe caps.

Aye - that's more like it.

 

[Goldbricker]

Yeah - a plastic lid is really going to stop you getting blatted by falling pipe/cable/submarine...? It's there for nuts and bolts - literally!

[/wah]

Seriously?

 

[PhotEx]

H&S - Serious stuff!

 

[LeoRoverman]

Yeah - a plastic lid is really going to stop you getting blatted by falling pipe/cable/submarine...? It's there for nuts and bolts - literally!

[/wah]

Oh be fair, we were told that Toe Tectors and hard hat would help in the event that we got hit by a tug or a forty footer.

 

[Stovepipe]

so that they can identify the splatter between hard hat and steel shoes as the instantly late Joe Smith...