This will hopefully mean that US telephone cables need no longer be stripped using a bayonet as at Bastogne Breakout. One less H&S form!
I have a small skewer hidden in the collar of my jumping jacket, and a razorblade in my gaiter, as well as my knife.
This will hopefully mean that US telephone cables need no longer be stripped using a bayonet as at Bastogne Breakout. One less H&S form!
yeah... we have on of those... we just couldn't find it. 
This will hopefully mean that US telephone cables need no longer be stripped using a bayonet as at Bastogne Breakout. One less H&S form!
Tsk. 'ealf & saftey gorne mad, innit.
Anyway, I think it was the bayonet throwing that was the unsafe part. 
Amazing Tommy look Komrade, well jealous of the physique, I just look like Captain Mainwaring in the british uniform!
I remember someone saying the British WW2 battle dress was based on contempory Winter Sportsmen clothing like skiers and what not, is that true?
Probably the reason porky's like myself look so wrong in it, you need the athletic build to make it look good!
"There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell."
General William Tecumseh Sherman
Welcom back, mate. 
You'll have a chance to use your Brit kit in May - check out the Crete game.
You've got nothing to ein, zwei, drei, vier
Winter '44 impression for U.S Army out for a spin...
"There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell."
General William Tecumseh Sherman
Redbarn Dublin Operation Crossbow 18/11/12
good kit , is the `42 airsoft or steel
"Take that you rotton helping of strawberry flan!"
Joseph Porta to "strawberrys and cream", in the sven hassel book ,ogpu prison
Amazing Tommy look Komrade, well jealous of the physique, I just look like Captain Mainwaring in the british uniform!
I remember someone saying the British WW2 battle dress was based on contempory Winter Sportsmen clothing like skiers and what not, is that true?
Probably the reason porky's like myself look so wrong in it, you need the athletic build to make it look good!
yes totally true.
It was based around the very popular baggy trousers and short jacket worn by skiers at the time.
In the later 30s BD and 37 pattern webbing was streets ahead of every other armies kit, used less fabric and was more practical (consider the germans were wearing uniforms that hadnt changed much since 1914 or earlier, the russians were wearing kit made in the tsarist era and the americans were wearing pre wwi webbing).
The whole outfit (including webbing) was aimed at being worn by a mechanised army that would spend a lot of time on motor transport (again britain had one of the worlds few mechanised armies, the germans were 85 per cent horse drawn) and sitting down... consequently little of the kit was designed to hang below the hips and the blouse was short for the same reasons.
For 1937 it was *very* fashionable. It just looks odd now as fashions have changed and people dont wear their trousers up to their ribs anymore.
"I think we are in rats' alley - Where the dead men lost their bones."
It just looks odd now as fashions have changed and people dont wear their trousers up to their ribs anymore.
Charming. I do. 
ive started, since putting on weight
"Take that you rotton helping of strawberry flan!"
Joseph Porta to "strawberrys and cream", in the sven hassel book ,ogpu prison
good kit , is the `42 airsoft or steel
Its an airsoft conversion, using a AK mech box and AK drum mag internals, various other bits also. the pistol grip was widened to accomadate the motor from the mech box.
Awesome, thanks for the history there Gadge!
I want to do a Giles like Tommy but even my belly would be taking the piss in the WW2 British Battle dress!
"There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell."
General William Tecumseh Sherman
Dublin 2011
Snow pics please, all who are affected - Lardy, that means you!! 
You've got nothing to ein, zwei, drei, vier
Recently got some kit
Some more for luck
I'm no great academic on British kit...but I'm fairly sure you can't be a medic and carry a Sten Gun.
Show me a man who will jump out of an airplane, and I'll show you a man who will fight!
General James M. Gavin
CRY HAVOC AND LET LOOSE THE DOGS OF WAR
Pretty sure that in WW2 airsoft you can.
