Found this on another forum. Looks like late '44 or early 45. Caption said France after several months in combat. :cheers:
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Found this on another forum. Looks like late '44 or early 45. Caption said France after several months in combat. :cheers:
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Wonder where he picked up that Pipe ?
What tune is he playing Frank ?
I don't have CCNL's but did some reading in the WB books recently. Read that Winchester shipped its first carbines with adjustable sights on June 21 '44. Also found that in May '44, Inland was still shipping 2/3 of theirs with "flip" sights. - Bob
Looks like local salvage...Quote:
Originally Posted by painter777
Agree Jim,Quote:
Originally Posted by browningautorifle
Pipe may be from The Alps.
Music: Something from 'The Sound of Music' or 'Danny Boy'
Amazing how Expensive Pipes can be. Wife bought me a Italian one years ago that ran nearly $300 which I thought was crazy. Little did I know how pricey they could be. I can still hear the 'Cracking sound' when I got in the truck and my brother had it lit and bit down on it and cracked it. Man I was P!ssed off, It was nearly seasoned to perfection, just the right amount of carbon build and had only used the same tobacco. I never got another one but took what felt like a year to get over the habit / feel of having it in hand while driving. Dug out a tackle storage box one day to pull out some big Muskie / Pike crankbaits and found a old corn cob pipe from many years ago. Not as classy but she smoked quite well until I broke it cause I'd stuck it in my back pocket. Older now and a good pipe sounds good. But I can't smoke in the house and don't heat the garage.
Will have to figure something out, because it sure sounds nice :thup:
My past father in law smoked a pipe when I first knew him. I remember Christmas used to include a new pipe and tobacco, now knowing those new pipes didn't get used because it's like a woman buying a man clothing...doesn't get used unless he buys it himself. He won't use what he doesn't like. This guy in the pic was probably used to smoking "Issues" and was overjoyed to capture a pipe. Probably still smoking pulled down issue cigarette tobacco though... :thdown:Quote:
Originally Posted by painter777
This is the carbine forum right? And we have Charlie crunching pipes.So the one carbine in the photo. Stock is at least a type 2 stock. Adjustable rear sight and no type 3 barrel band. 1944 issue. Ok Charlie and crunch your pipes now.
I've got a Pipe for you,Quote:
Originally Posted by Bruce McAskill
You Grouchy SOB !
Sorry...Quote:
Originally Posted by Bruce McAskill
When my father passed away, I got his pipes, maybe a dozen. I smoked Cherry Blend in them, but after awhile it was too much trouble. Pipe tobacco smelled better than it tasted. When I came home from VN I was smoking 4 packs of PallMalls a day. One day I just tossed them out the window. In the war they were a dime a pack. When you were hungry or angry a smoke was good. I was hungry and angry a lot.
Like many young men I smoked in Vietnam (and the price of a carton of cigarettes was around $1.75 if memory serves). I smoked just about anything with tobacco in it from age 16 to age 24... To this day I can't tell you how I was able to quit cold turkey - but I did at age 24... Best thing I ever did healthwise...
Young men do foolish things (so do old farts - but that's another topic entirely... ).
That would easily have killed you by now.Quote:
Originally Posted by DaveHH
I was drinking more than smoking when I got out of the army and quit that at the demand of my wife. Cigarette consumption went sky high and I decided it might be bad so I quit cold turkey too, never went back to either. Both were started in the army as I was too young to have been doing either before. I'm sure I would be broke or dead if I hadn't.Quote:
Originally Posted by lemaymiami
It took me about 3 months to burn through $1400 I'd saved in Vietnam, all on drinking. About a year later I got married and for some reason stopped drinking everything but Diet Pepsi. After two years of that, I brought home a bottle of vodka and a large can of V8 vegetable juice and told my wife that I was craving a bloody mary. Went through it all in one night, then settled down to a regular California lifestyle. We drank a lot of beer and never got fat doing it.
People wonder why Vietnam vets are screwed up. Take your average High school grad, send him to a hot uncomfortable place 9,000 miles from home. Give him access to all of the booze and beer he can drink, all the dope he can smoke (Dope and Opium), plenty of hookers most great looking and diseased, then try to kill him or if he is in a maneuver battalion, teach him how to kill people, maybe shoot him, feed him food totally unsuited to the tropics where he loses 20 lbs and then have Mom see what comes back through the front door a year later.
Average soldier's age in war is about 18, just after school. Impressionable. Examples set by more senior ones. There is only so much you can do when not actually busy in operations. Then in a base with minimum facilities. It changes your life forever.
Previous wars' hardships were clear in the veterans' attitude and actions in peace time, although not understood then. It gets better as time goes on but never goes away. Treatment helps if you are willing to undergo it.
The South African Army had an excellent destressing programme in our long term low intensity bush war, that those who managed to sidestep or escape, still to this day regret not going through.
Anyone notice in Franks picture that the guy with the Carbine has another pipe stuck in his hat. Appears it may be a Corn Cob pipe.
https://www.milsurps.com/attachment....9&d=1608419606
Hadn't noticed that before Charlie. They all seem to be looking at something beyond the trumpeter.