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    Very nice collection and display...
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    Thank-you for posting the photos of your fine collection here.

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    I really enjoyed going after this WWI stuff and decided I'm going to continue watching for it. I'm not going to exclude WWII stuff but as it seems to be a lot more common, I'm not finding it quite as interesting as the WWI stuff.

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    What an incredible collection! Thank you for keeping that history alive. In regards to how do you get 15 long guns into a safe? Two words - Rifle socks! I started using them about a year ago and they are great at protecting your collection in tight quarters. I am even learning how to identify my rifles by feel through each sock when I am looking for a certain firearm.

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    Outstanding! Thanks for sharing.
    I have got to get a way to display. Hard to enjoy items in the bowels of a safe.

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    Very impressive! Nice to see so many peices cared for and unbutchered.

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    This thread has got me thinking of what may have been going through the minds of all those thousands of young Americans as they traveled by ship to Franceicon in early 1918. For most it must have been the first time that they had left home and also the first time that they had left the United Statesicon. From the news outlets, available at the time, they must have been aware that the war hadn't always been going in the allies favour and they must have heard stories of new forms of warfare involving gas and of strange machines which people referred to as "Tanks".

    As those young Americans landed in France they must have also seen huge quantities of supplies, of every conceivable description, being landed, from munitions, to food, to horses and every other commodity that an army needs to survive and to wage war. As those young Americans marched closer and closer to the front they likely would have seen casualties coming in the other direction. As they finally got to the front they must have thought that they had entered Hell on Earth. For they could not see a single undamaged building, nor a living tree intact and not even a single blade of grass was visible for them to see.

    And what went through the minds of all those young Americans when they had their first experiences of actual war, of being shelled, of being machine gunned or of being gassed. I only know what went through one of my father's first experiences of war, in WW2, he thought that he was about to die.

    Yes America didn't enter WW1 until 1917 but all those young Americans who travelled to France in early 1918 to fight didn't know how long the war would last or which side would win. Heaven knows when WW1 would have ended if America hadn't joined the fight when it did.

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    thanks for posting the photos of your fabulous collection!
    I have a question regarding the artillery case in the photo with the Frenchicon flag. What model is it? It appears similar to a Germanicon field gun case that I have. Do you have a French 75mm case?
    They are very easy to come by here, obviously; but not sure if you'd see many in the USAicon or Canadaicon

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    Quote Originally Posted by 30Three View Post
    thanks for posting the photos of your fabulous collection!
    I have a question regarding the artillery case in the photo with the Frenchicon flag. What model is it? It appears similar to a Germanicon field gun case that I have. Do you have a French 75mm case?
    They are very easy to come by here, obviously; but not sure if you'd see many in the USAicon or Canadaicon
    That actually is a German field gun case. I figured it out when I was actually doing the presentation and moved it over to the German section. I have two German cases and when taking the shells out of the box I put the larger one down and mistakenly put a second shell based on size next to it in the German section. I assumed the other was French and set it there. But when talking about them, I looked at the base and quickly realized I had gotten the two mixed up and swapped them. I'm actually not positive that one is French either. I don't remember where or when I picked it up. The two German ones were given to me by the son of the man who brought them back and I have positively identified those two.

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