As I have I indicated in previous threads, I suffer from occasional WWII dreams (Lifetime of reading & movies + Covid isolation etc.) I can't recall the latest one in full detail, but at some point in it I found myself drafted into the French army. What was remarkable about this was the level of technical detail. I had a MAS 36 rifle and I wore a brownish khaki uniform, which was the shade adopted by the French in 1936, with piping and regimental number in red on the collar tabs. I researched this when I woke up and discovered that red piping and numbers were correct for the French white colonial troops, namely infanterie coloniale and zoauves. By no coincidence I am a Francophile and I have recently been writing something about North Africa in the 1950s. Do your own WWII dreams (and you know you have them) get this accurate? I work on the front line I work to survive And I sleep in a fever So this is my life I cry in my sleep
Was the MAS trigger pull weight as horrible as it is reputed to be? Never dreamed about WWII, which might be a good thing or a bad thing.
You are not alone "And then there was the food. “I went home and went to the larder and ate everything I could see. Went out and met my sister and a friend at a restaurant and had a large dinner. Then went to another pub and had some food there. Then went to another pub and had more food. Went back to the first pub and found a good mixture of drinks — barley wine and mild ale. Then I had a dish of prunes and custard into which a bottle of ale had also been poured. I rejoined my sister and had another meal. Then back to the pub and had a large mixture of various snacks. While I was there, some German guards arrived with more prisoners.” For World War II POWs imprisoned in a converted castle in Laufen, Germany, the stuff of dreams included impressive helpings of food, as well as family members, escape, and an overwhelming sense of the tedium of camp life. Barrett came across the dream journals during the summer of 2011, while teaching a Harvard Summer School course abroad at University College, London. She had arranged for the students to have access to several local archives for the class, including the Wellcome Collection in London. Barrett had met the collection’s director, onetime Harvard doctoral student Ken Arnold, when he returned to campus to deliver a lecture. Dream saga of WWII
I didn't fire it in the dream, just had it. I have seen the MAS 36 fired though, by Bloke on the Range. I can't recall what Bloke said about the trigger.
