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Post by volkssturm on Feb 11, 2010 18:17:53 GMT -5
I met a gunsmith about ten years ago who claimed when he was in the service he fired an M1 converted to using a BAR mag and full auto.
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Post by Adler69 on Feb 11, 2010 19:20:21 GMT -5
I met a gunsmith about ten years ago who claimed when he was in the service he fired an M1 converted to using a BAR mag and full auto. If you look at the top rifle on the photo (the one without a magazine) you can see the Full Auto "switch" on it , this is also the same position that the full auto switch is on the M14's
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Post by sarge12 on Feb 11, 2010 22:55:14 GMT -5
My best friend grandfather, who drove General MacArthur's jeep, told me when he went into battle he would see some GIs who converted the front grip of a BAR to a pistol grip. i saw a couple of films and I noticed that it was true, but what do the pistol grips looks like? Were they produced in factories or made by soldiers on the field?
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Post by Adler69 on Feb 12, 2010 0:34:43 GMT -5
That was a field expedient modification done by Mud Marines and Army troopers as a way to keep muzzle climb down on the BAR . Here's a photo of one , you can see how long this one was and the curve it had .
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Post by Adler69 on Feb 23, 2010 1:57:59 GMT -5
The Fire Hedgehog , 88 PPSh41's in a pack installed inside the bomb bay of a TU-2 bomber , the bomber would make a low level run on massed enemy troops , the bomb bay was opened and the pilot would press the trigger and all 88 PPSh's would fire at the same time .
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Post by Fusilier on Feb 23, 2010 6:14:01 GMT -5
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Post by petermartin14 on Feb 23, 2010 6:55:10 GMT -5
ww2 minigun!
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Post by mccallion on Feb 23, 2010 9:36:31 GMT -5
wow the first puff the magic dragon!
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Post by hairy apple on Feb 23, 2010 11:22:07 GMT -5
That's amazing.
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Post by Adler69 on Feb 23, 2010 11:46:02 GMT -5
wow the first puff the magic dragon! mccallion Not really , in the early '30s the US Army experimented with a similar concept , they installed 50 M1928's (complete with wood stocks) arranged to fire forward, backward , left , right and down , inside of a Ford Trimotor .
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Post by Fusilier on Feb 23, 2010 11:47:49 GMT -5
>> Theres nothing mini about that contraption! LOL! Somebody actually thought THAT was a good idea! lol!
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Post by Adler69 on Feb 23, 2010 12:30:32 GMT -5
A little bit weird but had it worked this weapon would have caused major headaches to Allied bomber formations. How would you have liked to have been the tail gunner on an Aliied bomber and all of a sudden you see this thing coming at you Four Me-262A-1as were armed a single 50mm Mauser Mk 214 cannon , the barrel of the cannon extended 7 feet pass the nose of the plane , but oddly enough that didn't affect the performance of the 262 at all , the only problem encountered during the trial phase of the project was the huge flash from the cannon when it was fired. Three of the aircraft where never used in combat , only one ever flew a combat mission , in April of 1945 Major Wilhelm Herget of JV44 managed to get within firing distance to an American B17 , but the Mk 214 failed to fire , Major Herget was forced to return to base and no more combat missions where flown .
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Post by Vii_Cii on Feb 23, 2010 13:35:02 GMT -5
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Post by tw4449 on Feb 23, 2010 13:52:43 GMT -5
Then there's the 75mm we fitted to some B-25s for anti-shipping duties...
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Post by Adler69 on Feb 23, 2010 13:53:56 GMT -5
Oh yeah , the Germans put cannons on anything that would fly and was big enough to carry it , in the Ost Front specially , vast open spaces and large amounts of armor was perfect for flying cannons. At the end of the war the Germans even installed Panzerfaust's on liaison aircraft .
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Post by Adler69 on Feb 26, 2010 1:14:50 GMT -5
The experimental USMC "Tank life raft" , if the main tank was knocked out , the crew would transfer to the life raft tank and use it to move to safety and return to the armor depot to get a new main tank. ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Post by Adler69 on Feb 27, 2010 2:25:01 GMT -5
A real one this time. Canadian experimental PIAT battery
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Post by griswold on Feb 27, 2010 8:51:34 GMT -5
I saw one of a Garand with a BAR magazine added. Probably a picture I saw on this site too. Here you go Here you go, just found out the name, T20E2
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Post by Adler69 on Feb 27, 2010 21:56:30 GMT -5
Supermarine/Daimler-Benz Spitfire , a captured Spitfire Vb that had it's Merlin engine replaced with a DB 605A-1 engine at the Sindelfingen Daimler-Benz factory, near Echterdingen in order to have a more direct comparison with the Luftwaffe Messerschmitt Bf.109's.
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Post by volkssturm on Mar 8, 2010 21:22:12 GMT -5
I picked up "Suicide Squads: WWII" a couple weeks ago. Interesting. One of the Japanese desperation weapons was the "lunge mine", a shaped charge on the end of 5 foot stick. The user was supposed to charge an enemy tank and jam the shaped charge against it, setting it off. Sort of a human powered panzerfaust. Odds ofthe operator surviving were essentially nil. I did a quixck google looking for mention of this thing. It appears the Halo games have something of the sort (but I don't play and didn't dig into it).
A Japanese tactic encountered in burma was to dig a foxhole in the likely path of Allied armor, put an artillery shell and a soldier armed with an improvised hammer into it, then conceal it. When a tank went over it the soldier was suppose to hammer on the shell's fuse and set it off. The original IED. You really, really have to believe in reincarnation to volunteer for that duty.
And to prove the Japanese were the only people with death wishes, the Italians came up with the MTM (Motoscafi da Turismo modificati). It was a small, one man speedboat with a 300 kg explosive charge. The idea was the operator would sneak up on his target at night, aim for it, push the throttle to full speed, lock the rudder in place. At 100 yards he'd drop a life raft and bail out. When the boat his the target vessel a small explosive charge would break up the boat and release the explosive, essentially a depth charge, which would sink to about the bottom of the target vessel before exploding to increase the amountof damage. If the operator wasn't on the raft when it exploded, the shockwave would seriously injure or kill him.
The Italians successfully used these to sink a tanker and seriously damage a cruiser at Crete, then had a massive failure in an attack on Malta. The Germans and Japanese developed simialr weapons, and even the British experimented with the idea.
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Post by Adler69 on Mar 8, 2010 21:56:02 GMT -5
Here's the Japanese Lunge Mine , from a US Army weapons recognition manual The US Army must have tought it was a good idea , because they added something similar to it in the Anti Tank warfare manual of the 1970's
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Post by tw4449 on Mar 8, 2010 22:38:26 GMT -5
"Hey, Mikhail, there's a guy thring to stick something in the gun tube!" "Well, run him over."
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Post by Adler69 on Mar 8, 2010 22:44:13 GMT -5
"Hey, Mikhail, there's a guy thring to stick something in the gun tube!" "Well, run him over." They can't run him over , the right track was blown , the tactic taight in the manual was to either blow the track or disable it by jamming a log into the drive sprocket , with the track or tracks disabled , the infantry had a chance to get up cloe to the tank and destroy it.
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Post by krieger on Mar 8, 2010 23:11:56 GMT -5
you all obviously dont realize what the single most effective weapon of WWII was. too bad for hitler this one came too late in the war, otherwise they couldve easily turned the tide for germany. gentlemen, i present to you, the donkeyfaust Attachments:
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Post by Fusilier on Mar 8, 2010 23:28:16 GMT -5
you all obviously dont realize what the single most effective weapon of WWII was. too bad for hitler this one came too late in the war, otherwise they couldve easily turned the tide for germany. gentlemen, i present to you, the donkeyfaust >> NO way! I'm throwing the BS flag on that one! lol!
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Post by Adler69 on Mar 8, 2010 23:36:08 GMT -5
Because that photo is BS , a couple of FJs in Italy having fun with their pack donkey , radio equipment and a Faust.
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Post by volkssturm on Mar 9, 2010 0:07:44 GMT -5
At IOBC in 1971 we spent a day or two on expedient anti-armor tactics. The only one I remember was taking a wooden mortar round box, putting C-4 and a detonator in it, hiding it in the bushes on one side of the road with a rope running to the other side, where some brave soul waits to pull the box into the path of an approaching tank. That was before cellphones and cheap remote control components from Radio Shack.
Also got to take aim with a dummy LAW on an approaching M-60, then hunker down in a reinforced foxhole while the tank drove over it.
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Post by tw4449 on Mar 9, 2010 1:23:36 GMT -5
"They can't run him over , the right track was blown , the tactic taight in the manual was to either blow the track or disable it by jamming a log into the drive sprocket , with the track or tracks disabled , the infantry had a chance to get up cloe to the tank and destroy it." How did I miss that the right track was GONE... Just call me an idiot. ;D
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Post by CptJericho on Mar 9, 2010 1:36:02 GMT -5
I can imagine an army of donkeyfausts charging towards the russians and pushing them back ;D
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Post by Retrohead on Mar 9, 2010 2:33:12 GMT -5
Seems economically friendly and fuel efficient as well
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