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Originally Posted by
Surpmil
they wouldn’t take up too much space or weight in the container,
Well, as a DZ controller, I can tell you that everything in a parachute drop is weight and is considered...needed or not.
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01-24-2017 12:22 PM
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Is there a No4 rifle with a spike bayonet attached, in either picture in Post 93, because I'm struggling to see one?
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Jim,
Absolutely correct.....its all relative to the chute (s) to be used as well!
'Tonight my men and I have been through hell and back again, but the look on your faces when we let you out of the hall - we'd do it all again tomorrow.' Major Chris Keeble's words to Goose Green villagers on 29th May 1982 - 2 PARA
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Originally Posted by
Flying10uk
a No4 rifle with a spike bayonet attached, in either picture in Post 93
Almost the center foredge of the table...
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§sending bayonets to the European resistance fighters........ They must have thought someone was playing a joke or taking the pee out of them. Nope. Not even the most dim witted civil servant or ordnance stores packer/dispatcher would be that stupid. They packed what was on the freight manifest Just my view of course
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Thanks Jim, I can't see it on my Lap top but I take your word that it's there.
I seem to recall hearing or seeing somewhere that bayonets were dropped with the SMLE or P14 rifles (I can't remember which) to the Norwegian
Resistance during WW2 who duly ditched the bayonets.
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Nice : Maquisards de Levens posant à Nice devant l'hôtel Scribe le matin du 29 août 1944 ( doc Paniccaci)
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Originally Posted by
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Maquisards de Levens
Excellent pic. Looks like bags of battlefield pickups, 1944 would be right for that. Stolen boots and full equipment.
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Immediately after any major "contact" after D-Day, the countryside would have been littered with all sorts of "stuff". Not all of it would have been recovered by Allied "post-action battlefield tidiness" units.
By the time the Allies rolled into Paris, the "bag" would have been very mixed, depending on where in the resistance "hierarchy" one stood.
Between stuff stashed in barns during the German invasion, air-drops, battlefield pickups and outright theft from the Germans, they would have had a VERY motley collection, as per the photo.
As long as it did the job for training or operations, I guess it was "accepted".
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