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Ithoriel

Quote from: Westmarcher on 07 September 2019, 06:20:21 PM
What will archaeologists and future historians and geologists think when they find these 10,000 years into the future?  ;D

What they always think when faced with the inexplicable ... "This is clearly a ritual site" :)
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The A22 Churchill had been designed in haste, and early versions were notorious for mechanical problems. As a result, several replacement projects were considered, based on up-armored versions of the A27 Cromwell, then the best regarded of the British cruiser tanks available. The most viable – and the only one to make it off the drawing board – was the A33 Excelsior. This was essentially a Cromwell hull up-armoured to the same standard as the Churchill, but as the Cromwell suspension would be unable to take the increased weight, the first prototype used the suspension and tracks, The second prototype used widened Cromwell track and suspension, and different armoured side skirts. However, by this point many of the issues of the Churchill had been resolved, and the project was dropped. This is the second prototype, which survives at the Tank Museum
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Quote from: Ithoriel on 08 September 2019, 05:07:51 PM
What they always think when faced with the inexplicable ... "This is clearly a ritual site" :)

Ahh, Time Team at it's peak.

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Two Churchill AVRE crewmen holding one of the 290mm demolition rounds fired by the AVRE's Petard gun. Intended to demolish bunkers and obstacles, the "flying dustbin" was a low velocity "Spigot Mortar" similar to a giant version of the infantry PIAT. It was loaded by breaking the barrel upwards like a shotgun and the new round upward through a sliding hatch that replaced one of the usual hull crew hatches. Postwar Churchill AVREs replaced the Petard with a more conventional 165mm gun
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From the Facebook Group "Royal Navy During WWII"

THE BRITISH NAVY AND FLEET AIR ARM COMBINE WITH US LANDING FORCES IN NORTH AFRICAN LANDINGS. 6-9 NOVEMBER 1942.
Seen from the bridge of HMS FORMIDABLE are HMS RENOWN, NELSON, DUKE OF YORK and VICTORIOUS.

That's two versions of the Seafire, and is that an Albacore?



THE ROYAL NAVY SUPPORTING ALLIED FORCES IN NORMANDY, JUNE 1944.
Starboard 4 inch guns of HMS BELFAST open fire on German positions around Ver-sur-Mer on the night of 27 June 1944.


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pierre the shy

Quote from: fsn on 03 November 2019, 07:19:51 PM
From the Facebook Group "Royal Navy During WWII"

THE BRITISH NAVY AND FLEET AIR ARM COMBINE WITH US LANDING FORCES IN NORTH AFRICAN LANDINGS. 6-9 NOVEMBER 1942.
Seen from the bridge of HMS FORMIDABLE are HMS RENOWN, NELSON, DUKE OF YORK and VICTORIOUS.

That's two versions of the Seafire, and is that an Albacore?

Yes its an Albacore - if you look closely you can see the back of the canopy between the folded wings.

According to David Brown's "Carrier Operations of WW2" Formidable's air group for the Torch landings consisted of the following FAA units:

885 Squadron - 6 Seafire IIC
888 Squadron - 12 Martlet II
893 Squadron - 12 Martlet IV
820 Squadron - 12 Albacore

Martlet was the British name for the Grumman Wildcat.
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Quote from: pierre the shy on 04 November 2019, 05:53:55 PM
Yes its an Albacore - if you look closely you can see the back of the canopy between the folded wings.

According to David Brown's "Carrier Operations of WW2" Formidable's air group for the Torch landings consisted of the following FAA units:

885 Squadron - 6 Seafire IIC
888 Squadron - 12 Martlet II
893 Squadron - 12 Martlet IV
820 Squadron - 12 Albacore

Martlet was the British name for the Grumman Wildcat.

By some accounts the Albacore was less popular than the Swordfish that it was intended to replace.

Given that it's a half squadron of Seafires, is it a sensible assumption that they were intended for a reconaissance role?

pierre the shy

04 November 2019, 09:58:46 PM #97 Last Edit: 04 November 2019, 10:56:15 PM by pierre the shy
After battling through most of 1942 still being equipped with mainly Fulmars and Sea Hurricanes the FAA was keen to use their new Seafires starting out with Operation Torch. I think they would be in limited numbers due to it being their operational debut...but they were seen as 100% fighters.

Unfortunately due to their narrow track undercarrage Seafires had a very high attrition rate whenever flying off carriers from 1942 to 1950 (FR Mk 47's flew in the Korean War) but they were a superb fighter when in the air.
Though much is taken, much abides; and though
we are not now that strength which in old days
moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are.

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Battle of Amiens. A dump of German artillery guns and howitzers captured by the British Fourth Army, 27 August 1918. One in foreground was captured by the Australian Corps (note a message scribbled on the barrel - "Captured by Anzac Corps. What about the Tanks?"). Those in the foreground are all 21 cm Mörser 16 heavy howitzers.

Creator: McLellan, David (Second Lieutenant) (Photographer).
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A British Mark IV female tank, captured and used by the Germans, blown up by a mine and destroyed by French artillery. North of Perthes, 2 October 1918.

Creator: French official photographer.
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HMS ML 462 off of Sicily - July 1943

ML 462 was a Motor Launch of the Fairmile B class built by Dorset Yacht Co. Ltd. in Hamworthy, England, U.K.

Commissioned in December 1941
Sold in March 1959

The Fairmile B class boats were 112' long, had a top speed of 20 knots, and carried a normal crew of 16

721 were built and 55 were lost in WW2

They were used by the Royal Navy, Royal New Zealand Navy, Royal Indian Navy, Royal Canadian Navy, Royal Australian Navy, Free French Navy, Royal Dutch Navy, Royal Norwegian Navy, Royal Hellenic Navy, and eight were used by the U.S. Navy

LIFE Magazine - J R Eyerman Photographer
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U.S. M15A1 Halftrack with 37mm & 2X .50 cal combination AA guns in Cherbourg France, August 1944
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A strange combination of guns :-\

I would have thought the different ballistic characteristics would make getting concentrated fire difficult
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Covenanter tanks of 9th Armoured Division during Exercise 'Limpet' in the Thetford-Bury St Edmunds area, 18 July 1942.


Have they got a pattern on them? Or is it just dirt?
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I can't see any pattern so must be dirt.