Incongruous Weapons and Equipment Thread

[Nickdfresh]

I'll try to scan it later in that Pershing & US heavy tanks thread...

[R Mark Davies]

Originally Posted by Rising Sun*

Fraser's action mightn't have had much effect on his section, but the loss of a BAR or equivalent in a section is an entirely different matter.

The USMC in the Pacific learned to base their section tactics around the BAR and with good reason, and good effect.

I wouldn't accept a section member ditching the LMG section weapon for his personal convenience because he was too lazy to carry, clean and properly maintain it.

And I'd be seriously pissed off if the LM gunner put my section at risk by trading his weapon for another rifle, of which there were already plenty in the section and arranged on tactics around the LM gunner actually having an LMG which the section LM gunner had ditched for personal convenience.

I broadly agree. However, to clarify Bowen's case, he was the squad leader and in between Normandy and Holland he decided to acquire an extra BAR for himself in order to beef up his squad's firepower. But after lugging it around for a few execises, he decided to bin it. So I'd put this down to acceptable personal affectation rather than dereliction of duty.

[steben]

Luckily, the US army now uses belgian light MG's in their squads.

[Panzerknacker]

This is definately "incongrous", trying to capture a russian without magazine in your submachinegun....

[flamethrowerguy]

It worked seemingly.
Maybe he had one round left in the chamber...

[Panzerknacker]

Too bad that the pic is not from the left side, if so I could see if it is charged ( bolt fully back), probably not even that.

[tankgeezer]

Its like the charms of a woman, half in what they have, the other half in what you think they have,,,,

[Panzerknacker]

By now I am just getting women with just half...of each part.

This is interesting too, an "geballte ladung" but made with egg grenades not the cilindrical head sthd 24.

[Deaf Smith]

Originally Posted by Panzerknacker

Well in the Osprey book about the atlantic wall there are several pictures with emplacement of czech, french, russian and even british guns from 25 to 152 mm. The logistic for all those was a crackhead thing I guess.

Toothy german parachutist with Bren.

I notice the Bren holder has sub-machine gun mag pouches on his belt. I suspect he was just photed with a captured Bren.

Deaf

[VonWeyer]

Agreed...it looks like he is almost "mockingly" smiling with his captured prize.

[tankgeezer]

He is a happy troopie, he finally has a good and trusty weapon.

[flamethrowerguy]

Originally Posted by Panzerknacker

That reminds me of this one of the extremely light Soviet AA action:

[Nickdfresh]

Originally Posted by steben

Luckily, the US army now uses belgian light MG's in their squads.

And general purpose ones too...

[Nickdfresh]

Originally Posted by flamethrowerguy

That reminds me of this one of the extremely light Soviet AA action:

An effective tactic if you have enough riflemen, and a plane flying low and fast enough. I believe some US pilots in Vietnam ran into trouble if there were enough VC/NVA firing small arms at them unexpectedly at low level...

[flamethrowerguy]

Originally Posted by Nickdfresh

An effective tactic if you have enough riflemen, and a plane flying low and fast enough. I believe some US pilots in Vietnam ran into trouble if there were enough VC/NVA firing small arms at them unexpectedly at low level...

I guess the fact that they are using scopes wouldn't make it easier to score a hit because of limited vision...