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Joined: Sep 12, 2006
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Re: Tin Cups!

Yeah white ones are early war and can be got for about 50p in household stores but were issued for the duration of the hostilities. Brown ones are fa...

18 years ago
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Re: Canadian trousers missing the pocket?

If the serge is the same colour/texture as 49 pat uk i can cut you enough fabric off an old blouse to make an ffd.

18 years ago
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Re: SS 2nd Panzer Div

You'll want a GD cufftitle too. Award wise a wound badge is a safe one, that and panzer assault would look ok without being over the top.

18 years ago
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Re: Types of Fallschirmjaeger

By late war a belt was a belt and a jacket a jacket, you occasionally see the 'wrong' branch of service kit in a formation. No ones going to turn dow...

18 years ago
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Re: SS 2nd Panzer Div

History is written by the victors isn't it. I used to know a former chindit who filled a bunker with Jap pows and threw grenades in until the screami...

18 years ago
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Re: The need for MG's

I'm well up for another training day.

18 years ago
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Re: Bren team roles

theoretically for trained soldiers used to moving in step its a piece of piss. Civvy airsofters on the other hand....

18 years ago
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Re: SS 2nd Panzer Div

All I'll say is having done a shedload of research on the 9th and also on Arnhem the only 'war crime' I came across was British airborne shooting woun...

18 years ago
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Re: SS 2nd Panzer Div

Yeah, it does look a bit odd with no german armour I did the panzer officer loadout for a drinking get up for evenings and the odd special mission c...

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Re: Bren team roles

Well 'on paper' a staffords bren team is exactly the same as a line inf bren team. Glider forces used standard infantry company structure. Parachute ...

18 years ago
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Re: Bren team roles

I always though ammo replen was the L/cpls job. the no2 has enough to do keeping a constant feed without running up and down the section asking for m...

18 years ago
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Re: SS 2nd Panzer Div

Ah the beret. yeah thats virtually extinct by the start of the russian campaign and as del says it has a crash liner in it,thats why it looks so big -...

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Re: Bren team roles

Yeah if you want i can scan in pics of the two man leopard and kitten crawls for bren teams.

18 years ago
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Re: SS 2nd Panzer Div

Hmm loads of points here. First of all Doog is definitely not political/right wing or a closet 'sympathiser' as far as i know If you want to do 2nd...

18 years ago
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Re: Bren team roles

the no2 also carries the spare barrels and bren spare parts wallet. When the bren no1 is hit he is supposed to roll to the right to allow the no2 to ...

18 years ago
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Re: No.4 or SMLE Rubber Bayonet and Scabbard

why not just do what i do with my soviet kit and pour superglue into the scabbard, break the blade off and glue a quarter blade in so it isn't a long ...

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