You might recall that the memsahib and I went to France for the Somme Centenary Commemorations last July, and we brought back some photographs from Albert. It so happened that we stumbled upon the graves of some men from my great-uncle's unit, in Savy Cemetery. One of them was the CSM Rhodes, whom Unc...
Our friend Jack Alexander poses the following question: I did just publish a small book on the history of the Holt 120 HP Caterpillar, used in the Great War, which can be previewed at LULU.com There are now two known survivors in the US, one was pulled out of Alaska last year and now being restored. A se...
Found some French work on the physical properties/ composition of the armour plate on A7V #542. The steel is a Nickel steel with about 4% Ni - it's roughly like a low alloy tool steel. It was pretty hard - the hardness test result is about the same as white cast iron. If anyone's interested in the detail I...
Has anyone seen any details on the method used to keep the Crib fascine on the Mark V in place? Simply ropes or cables, or was there a more refined technique? The photos I have seen are too distant to get a clear impression of the method of attachment/release.
on hathitrust.org there is the online book "With the MT in Mesopotamia" by F.W. Leland of interest to people who want to know what vehicals were used there and their operations ect.. There are also some other books on this campaign: The Campaign in Mesopotamia 4 volumes F.J. Moberly the British offic...
Takom's 1/35 scale Medium Mark A Whippet, completed as tank A321 serving near Achiet-le-Petit, France, in August 1918. Finished in Vallejo & Tamiya acrylics; MIG enamels; Abteilung 502 oils; and MIG, Secret Weapon Miniatures, and Vallejo pigments. This was my first entry into armor modelin...
Actually. it did start during the Great War. I got Osprey book on the soldiers, but no detailed information on how they fought. It seems that to make the soldiers, we could use existing World War One figures of British soldiers and World War Two shoulder boards available from Eduard in photoetch, an...
Namely, tank crew members who would stagger out of any World War Tank in a state of nausea-which happened plenty enough in real life. -- Edited by Long Tom on Friday 24th of February 2017 09:03:57 PM
Hello! i am looking for a picture of a MK V without the rails for the unditching beam but with all the brackets to hold the rails still on it. I am especialy interested in how the driverscabin looked at the outside without the rails but with the brackets still attached to it to. anyone who has a picture? bes...
An old friend passing through Paraguay sent me this photo of a Bolivian Krupp 75 mm L.13 model 1896 mountain gun captured during the Battle of Boquerón. H was surprised when I told him its story. It was one a a batch paid for the Argentine government and part of a shipment of arms, which included Mauser m...
The Photograph is from the Tennessee State Library and Archives and is titled, (Three hundred and first Tank Battalion. America's heavies going into action at Souplet on the morning of October 17, 1918. Note the American flag flying from one of the tanks. St, Souplet, Nord, France. ) The Photog...
An old friend in Chile sent me this picture, labeled As " Bolivian Artillery during the War of the Pacific" ( 1879-1883) from Bolivian sources.. I was doubtful about the uniforms, which seemed of a later vintage. He identified it as a photo taken during the Bolivian Civil War of 1895. He further id...
There is a very nice 15 minute film on You Tube showing the testing and display of Ordnance items in 1918-1919. The film starts with some artillery firing, including some SP artillery demonstrations. The second half of the film shows some Renault FT displays along with a long segment on the Mk VIII Int...
Hi; My first post!! Can anybody tell me what were the unit numbers for the Flak artillery? Also what units used captured Russian AA guns? I recently purchased a shell casing 76.2x385x90mm-? marked?? JUNI / FN / 1918, I assume for the Russian 76.2mm Putilov AA M1902. Looking for more information/hist...
A bit of an "Off topic", but some of these guns were still in reserve by th e outbreak of the First World War- This is a Krupp 75 mm L.24 mod. 1895 (couresy Mayor S. Toyos R.E.) Note the Maxim-Nordenflet screw breech block common to all Argentine Krupp guns in this caliber up to the Krupp mod. 1909... [URL=...
This was taken a few years ago at the H.Q. of "The Confederate Air Force", in Harlingen, Texas.[URL=http://s590.photobucket.com/user/patricios/media/Meiji%2041%2075%20mm.jpg.html][IMG]https://i590.photobucket.com/albums/ss341/patricios/Meiji%2041%2075%20mm.jpg[/IMG...
I am enclosing an illustration of a Krupp 7,5cm L..13 mod. 1873 mountain gun sent by my old friend Arkady Kuznetsov and a couple of photos of a Peruvian Krupp 75 mm L.13 mo. 1880 y another contact in Peru.. They are virtually identical. Now compare the simple mount with that of a Krupp 75 mm L.13 mod. 189...
Any way to tell which is which before I buy it? I read that some kits of the same tank from the same manufacturer have the one kind and later ones the other kind. As might be expected, the glue-togethers are too much for the likes of me.
The fuel tanks in the early (Mark i - III) tanks were in the horns The fuel was moved to the rear of the tank for the Mark IV. Has anyone seen any evidence as to whether this had any impact on the handling of the later tanks?i
US Army Railway Artillery Projects Railway Artillery forms another chapter in the history of our wartime Ordnance preparation. An inventory taken by the Ordnance Department as soon as war was declared against Germany showed some 464 big guns available for mobilization on the western front. Thes...
