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Dec 1, 2005 8:53 am
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We can't have shaken beer now can we! Jeff ... some ... <rfrusso@j...> ... ( ... San ... there ... Chris ... Closer, ... we ... not ... HMGS ... ...
Thanks to everyone who offered to help, greatly appreciated. I picked the first person who responded (having met the requirements) and I also picked a silent...
Any good examples of air guns used during our time period? http://www.lewis-clark.org/content/content-article.asp?ArticleID=1829 Last article at bottom: ...
Hi folks, This was sent in to a WWII group that I belong to, and comes from some work done by a fellow over there, but I think it's really quite a "periodless"...
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... My paternal great grandfather was in Afghanistan, then at Tel-el-Kebir. Never rose above rank of corporal, but served in two regiments (very odd, I'm sure...
This is a topic I started on TMP today. I got it from National Review online, from some blogs posted by the estimable cranky John Derbyshire. He is a Kipling...
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Thanks Mark, That was what I thought, yet this is 1911-20? Would they still be around then - my only knowledge of them is ACW? Mike ... From:...
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Dec 2, 2005 5:47 am
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New Zealand was still using 2 (?) Armstrong BL's until at least WW2 - only as saluting guns, but still on the 'strength'. They were eventually transferred to a...
I was considering "Boilers and Breechloaders" as as early xmas pressie - started to search around for more info on riverine gunboats and came across a site...
Tiger Miniatures has just released the following packs of figures from their new colonial line: GC1 German Schutztruppen Command GC2 German Schutztruppen DEI1...
Amazing. And then of course, theres nothing seemingly particularly odd about those regiments. TS Allen ... My paternal great grandfather was in Afghanistan,...
In May 1940 the Dutch Army used the "8 Staal" (the name of the gun - "Staal" means "steel") against the then most modern army in the world. The 8 Staal was...
Jeff, you are so right... after all how would be get to the beer and pretzels games? Chris ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
As Luc & Bruce point out older breech-loading guns without recoil mechanisms were used for a long period of time-well into WW1 & beyond. I think the British...
Good Morning! I've been mulling over a scenario which involves, among other things, a storage and depot facility for roughly 1890-5 model Whitehead and...
http://www.weymouthdiving.co.uk/torphist.htm Propellent was pressurized gas IIRC and as for fire and small arms I'd make it fun for the game it was in....
People Some help would be great: 1) Sweaters: Have you got pictures of or links to pictures and descriptions of the knitted pullover/sweater worn at the time,...
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Dec 2, 2005 5:44 pm
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... I think the Territorials were issued the 15-pdr QF's, though some old BL's may have served as well. It is unlikely that any of the ACW era Whitworths would...
... Definitely. ... Guncotton at first, then whatever the country's standard HE filler was (picric acid, TNT, etc.). Guncotton would be less stable than HE. ...
Sweaters would be olive drab. A similar version was still being issued when I was in the army back in the 1980s. Machine guns would be the Colt "potato digger"...
You are right-I don't think any ACW Whitworths were used after the ACW. I've seen references to Whitworths in the colonial period but surely those were...
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