Convoy tactics are abysmal. The BTG is conceptually an abject failure when having to engage a near-peer adversary. They don't have the depth to...
...tanks and then parking up on cross roads would have horrified a Great war Mule driver....and mules don't burst into flames when hit by shellfire.
...- 4 3.7-inch Howitzers - 4 L.M.Gs., .303-inch - 8 horses - 110 mules Mechanical transport is centralized in the regimental headquarters, also...
Mules in Italy 67th Field Regt Sept/Oct 1944 Hope these might help. Courtesy of Family Album collections.
That's a bit spooky idler. Coincidently, I received the following image after viewing this thread for a while: [ATTACH]
I'm sure I haven't said "mules" within earshot of my phone but this was pushed under my nose: Original 1944 WW2 Saddle | eBay
As well as my Dad's memory of his time with mules at the Trigno: Mules He spent 3 weeks, during March/April 1944, on a nightly tripse up from the...
...on more than one occasion by a WW2 veteran with experience of mules that a mule would carry “forty blankets and no more; if you put on forty...
...has a couple of pages on the different types and 'nationalities' of mules used in Italy with regard to their hardiness and suitability for...
...nature of this campaign, it caused significant problems with the mules understanding different languages and training methods. For example; a...
...there's this one: [ATTACH] While you're looking for the elusive mules, you notice that it's not got the shield folded down - there isn't one....
...of this is mentioned in the book). He spent much time working with Mules delivering medical supplies to the forward units which fits in with...
...of Allenby and reinforcements; story illustrating antipathy between mules and camels; role at divisional headquarters during Third Battle of...
...light guns . . . that could easily be taken to pieces and packed on mules and so carried off along difficult narrow tracks and set up again in...
...using the old Screw Gun which could be dismantled to carry on pack mules. These were relatively light 75mm guns needing a huge contingent of...
...men of the Essex Reg. during the 50th Anniversary. They lead their mules to Hangman’s Hill with ammo. My father was 2IC of Coy D 1/9 Gurkha...
...was by then deserted but we managed to get an old Greek cart, two mules and a horse and made our way towards LAMIA (21st April) Here we found a...
...AQ, it might mean Army Qualified/Qualification but Driver IC = Driver Internal Combustion ie motorised vehicles as opposed to horses/mules. Tim
...guns could be rapidly dismantled and the various pieces carried by mules. No mules were used on this occasion. Each gun was ferried across the...
Army Number: 5502731 Rank: Private Name: Francis Richard VERON, MM Unit: 6 Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment London Gazette : 12 April 1945...
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