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Originally Posted by
AX201201
Where is that stitching Mr. WW?
Ignore the open flap P-38 and other silly belt carried accoutrements. The second image is Rifleman J.J. Showers, Queen's Own Rifles of
Canada
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Photos credit of Archives Canada.
Judging by the size of the objective he's using some commandeered civilian pattern with about a 1.5" objective, and nickel plated to boot! No wonder it's wrapped in camo.
The other photo looks like it was taken at the same place and time as that famous series of Sgt. Marshall.
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11-23-2011 03:42 AM
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To be honest, it looks to me like he's got the sct reg scope back to front!. Obviously posed while he's scribbling his notes.
Getting back to reality now................. Anyone else care to comment......... As for the notion that any, even remotely sane person in his right mind, would ever, ever, ever, in a thousand years carry grenades or even one grenade clipped over his belt by the arming lever is the stuff of comics and fairytales and would never happen in the real world. There's just the shear strength of a soft bog standard garage split pin that's already under load, between you and valhalla. I appreciate that we all posed for warry pictures to send home to our mums but I can't believe that it got past the censor
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Zing ! Caring to comment: Maybe it was the influence of the Pommy officers assigned to oversee training those B-L-O-O-D-Y wild Colonial boys? There are still some of us around who have cleaned, performed striker tests, primed and tossed enough 36 grenades to understand no "remotely sane person in his right mind . . . "
As I wrote in the initial posting: Ignoring the silly accoutrements ... knowing that the someone would rise to the bait. ROLF? LOL? OMG yes! I am pulling your ****er Peter.
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Posed pictures
What ? Posed images are not the real world ? Are they posed in order to elicit a certain response from the viewer?
QOR of C Riflemen taking a break from their sniper training course in England, 21 April 1944. Photo credit of Archives Canada.
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Originally Posted by
AX201201
What ? Posed images are not the real world ? Are they posed in order to elicit a certain response from the viewer
Yep, and a bunch of posers to prove it.
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I've copied that warry grenade picture to show them at work...................... I can't wait to hear the responses. I'll pass the printable ones on!
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