I have been lent a copy of Mr. Messenger's recent book on Amiens, and this picture appears on the cover. I only glanced at it at first, but on closer inspection it turns out to be very odd indeed. I should say that it is a posed shot overlaid on a genuine one of a Tank. It is clearly meant to depict an Allied sol...
I've just completed my first model kit in three decades, the Emhar 1/72 Mark IV male kit with the matador sponsons, tracks and stowage. The figures are from the Emhar set with the heads of a couple swapped over to get the figure looking at the tank. It's called 'Blimey! I wonder if Alf's seen one of these y...
Many years ago, when I were a youth, I used to wargame. I was sitting here wondering if any of the big names from the late 70s were still around and googled for Skytrex, who used to make small-scale armour for wargamers. Not only are they still there, but on the front page of their website was a kit for a WW1?...
Bonjour, Here is the copy of a document found in Vincennes It was during?a lunch in General Estienne's Head-Quarter of Montigny-sur-Loing. It was the?Artillerie?Sp?ciale Head-Quarter since April 1918. Montigny was not far away from Fontainebleau, and?just near Bourron (the new Tank Training...
Hi All, There is a fantastic new book on Austrian-Hungarian artillery from 1867 to 1918. Its: C Ortner "Die ?sterreichische-ungarische Artillerie von 1867 bis 1918. Technik, Organisation und Kampverfahren" (Verlag Militaria) (www.militaria.at) 637 pages on all with lots of info o...
Only a very minor episode in the development of the Tank, but I'm sure most of us have seen the mention of 'Balata Belting' during the search for a suitable track for Little Willie. Albert Stern says that d'Eyncourt turned down the idea of using Balata Belting, but other accounts say that Wilson conduc...
This is from the New York Times Midweek War Supplement, December 27, 1917. I don't think we've had it before. The 9th Field Artillery at Schofield Barracks, Honolulu. I'm not certain which type it is - possibly a 20-tonner?
While searching through a large collection of the IWM's Great War posters on the Visual Arts Data Service site? http://vads.ahds.ac.uk? I came across this one. It appears to advertise a film about the tanks at Cambrai (or, most likely, their wrecks). If this footage still exists, it would make for s...
My first post on this forum... I went to the Tankfest at the Bovington Tank Museum on Sunday. A good day out. Much focus on the running Tiger I of course but great interest in the first outing of the A7V replica built at British Military Vehicles. Despite?being a plywood and resin construction over a ste...
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I am doing an extensive study on German Anti-Aircraft guns, and Anti-Aircraft Gun Vehicles {Flak Trucks} , Like the Bak-Wagen, Kraftwagen 14 mit 7.7 cm BAK, 7.7cm leichte Kraftwagen-Flak L/27. 1914 by Krupp/Daimler and Ehrhardt/Rheinmetall. or any other variants. Any i...
Matador have released a complete kit of the Medium Mark C and a conversion kit to turn Revell's Renault FT into the TSF version. http://www.matadormodels.co.uk/new_kits.htm On a separate note, did the Medium Mark C ever get used in anger? I am wondering if maybe it was deployed in Ireland in 'The Tro...
Just saw an FT-17 today at college station, Texas. The real deal, not a US? six-ton tank.? The Tank is about to be restored and run, hopefully late in 2010, at the Museum of the American GI.? The engine runs, although the tank needs to be completely disassembled and sandblasted and repainted, somethin...
Hi guys I'm reading a book Animals In War by Jilly Cooper in this there is a passages on hawks trained by the Germans to kill (post)pigeons both in WW1 and WW2, anybody know more on this? Where and which troop had hawks? Did the allies used hawks to hunt for pigeons? Thanks Patrick -- Edited by poky on Tuesd...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levavasseur_project The article on Wiki and the one in Tank Zone (which might both have been written by Fran?ois Vauvillier) describe the tracks of the vehicle thus: The all-terrain mobility necessary to this machine is achieved by a contraption equivalent to a w...
I received this correspondence a while ago from a source I can't disclose. If the sender's identity were to become known it could cause him serious professional problems, so I've removed anything which might suggest who he is. I can't say any more than that. Seriously. Let us just say that he has studi...
For those who may be interested, the Osprey "Men-at Arms" series now includes "The Belgian Army in World War 1", (Men-at Arms 452). This is priced at ?9.99, although with?a little searching, can be found at a more competitive price. It follows the usual format, and is of simila...
Whilst during some reading on this site Desert Column?I came across this reference to Australian built armoured cars, apparantly these were improvised from donated chassis and armoured with plate intended for ammunition waggons, armed with Colt mgs(yet again) three seem to have been built no tw...
Stumbled across pic of cheery Soviet troops in what looks very like WWI German body armour. All their own work or Beutepanzer? (Or has Mr. Rigsby been tinkering again?) BTW, have just learned that the Italian Arditi armour was somewhat romanticised. Despite L&F Funcken's impressive drawing o...
"Officers and Soldiers of the French Army 1914" and "Officers and Soldiers of the French Army 1918, (1915 to Victory)", both written by Andre Jouineau, (Histoire & Collections) are now available. I have the editions translated into English, (sometimes rather questio...
This is a (generic) model of what would be a "between the wars-era ambulance", based in an ex civilian wooden box?van on a chassis similar to Ford AA or BB , or even Opel, Gaz or any non licensed copy of the Ford brainchild built in Europe for those times. Thanks to ALDO MASTROSTEFANO for the pi...
Looking at an account of a 14 year old girl's diary in 1918 (she lived in a suburb of Cleveland) I find the following: Later, Jeannette went to see a German tank on Public Square. It was the first one we captured, she chronicled. Did any A7Vs get sent to the US? Could this be a Beutepanzer?
I finally found enough time to read Osprey's "Armies in East Africa 1914-18". I learned that there were vital clashes between german and belgian armed steamers on the lake tanganyika for the mastery of supply routes there and the campaign ended with the destruction of the most powerful german steam...
At the web site: http://www.firstworldwar.com/weaponry/mortars.htm What are the motars under the 'the german 1914 mortar' heading, I can't place them. Thanks up front Bob
I have some photos of French trucks in service and i was curious about their markings. On the rear side it says TM - 65. Is TM an abbreviation for Batallion or some such? On the front side of the body it says PM 3000 and PU 3000. I presume that this is its weight limit, but what does PM and PU stand for. This?pro...
Greetings I lifted these images off a composite real photo postcard created at Camp Meade, so the quality is not good. The original images were about the size of a small postage stamp. Nevertheless, there are some decent views. John A-G
