Captured Ammo and equipment

Weapon you have David is an RPD . http://world.guns.ru/machine/mg14-e.htm

 

Quote"You guys just amaze me with your knowledge"David , it's called Google.It's all very well us knowing what they're called but you were the one having them pointed at you!That's amazing.

 

I think the wheeled MG could be a SG-43 . http://world.guns.ru/machine/mg35-e.htm

 

when did the british start to use the guns that fired about 20 rockets or shells all at once.
Can you explain what you mean a bit more please?Do you mean a Gatling type gun?

 

they can be seen on this link

http://www.efour4ever.com/44thdivision/arty.htm

i think they only came into operation towards the end of the war dont think the british had any for the battle of britain but ive seen pictures of the soviets having much bigger ones.

ta
I think we called it "Canadian Mattress" .http://www.perthmilitarymodelling.com/reviews/books/wow/wow004.htm .QUOTE "The Canadian Army did show some interest in the system and after lengthy trial and development deployed a few launchers were deployed in support of troop operations towards the end of 1944 with mixed results."

 

BACK TO CAPTURED KIT.Found this photo of T34 at kiev.http://armor.kiev.ua/Tanks/WWII/T34_85/?img=t34_85_21.jpg

 

This photo is from 43rd Wessex Div History, meant to post it before but didn't.
Sorry for grotty image.
Don't see Tommies using a KAR 98 much or do you?
Reading the caption I suppose we could all shout "He's behind you!"

 

"A battle patrol of the 1st East Surreys rest after returning from enemy territory, 16 December 1943.": Imperial War Museum Collections Online Database.


VP posted this on another thread.
These lads, unlike sappers 3rd Div, were not averse at using the MP40.

 

Nice. Hadn't noticed that, middle chap's even wearing the German magazine pouch for one.

 

Quite a famous photo.
Anyone would think they were at Bisley.
BU 458
Description: Major Stewart Fotheringham and CSM Low of 'X' Company Scots Guards (under command of 1st Welsh Guards) watch mopping up operations during the advance on Brussels, 4 September 1944. The Major is carrying a German KAR 98 rifle.

 

That picture of the Wessex infantry peering through the windows ? POSED! No infantry man stands at a window looking in..OK if you want your head blown off....
Sapper
Very good point , Brian.
Lots of these "action" photos are posed.
As you said before not going to get many cameramen in the front line.

Did any of your unit have a box-brownie with them?

I expect you will all have heard of the "Moaning Minnies"? nebelwerfers? On the Goodwoods offensive we (The Sappers) captured one and turned it against the enemy. The result was absolutely ferocious. The enemy reacted with huge shell and mortar fire. So we did not use it again.......

B 7785
A soldier examines an abandoned German 'Nebelwerfer' near Troarn, 20 July 1944.



Wish I could make out the Div patch on this chap.(could it be red desert rat on black square?)


Brian here are some of your Div looking at an MP40.



Men of the South Lancashire Regiment, 3rd Division, inspect a captured German MP40 sub-machine gun, 13 June 1944.(B5547)



B 14185
Lt-Gen E H Barker, GOC 8th Corps, inspecting various captured German weapons during an inspection of 3rd Division positions, 26 January 1945.


for masses of other photos of German kit search for "captured German " on the IWM site.

 

Brian,
What exactly were you doing lying in the stinking Dutch mud in the first place?
Planting some nasty surprises for the Germans?