SOE Pistol Belt The belt shown above has a .32 ACP Colt Model 1903 Pocket Hammerless incorporated into it with a remote trigger mechanism allowing the pistol to be fired from the belt, on the hip. The best was designed by the Special Operations Executive (SOE) and is one of seve … | Continue reading
How Major Robert Cain won the Victoria Cross during Operation Market Garden Perhaps the most famous actions involving the Projector, Infantry, Anti-Tank (PIAT) during Operation Market Garden are those carried out by Major Robert Cain, of 2nd Bn South Staffordshire Regt. Cain and … | Continue reading
Anthony Colgan, a Universal Carrier driver with the 9th Bn Durham Light Infantry, remembers a young lieutenant attempting to destroy a tank during fighting at the Battle of Geel, in September 1944. A Jagdpanther knocked out during the Battle of Geel (source) What is interesting … | Continue reading
historicalfirearms: Head Wounds & Steel Helmets In the March, 1943 edition of the US Army’s Intelligence Bulletin, a short article discusses a British study of combat head injuries and the protection afforded by various styles of steel helmet. The article refers to a report writ … | Continue reading
So over the weekend I’ve had to waste a good 5 hours going through all 2,600 posts I’ve written since 2013 because of tumblr’s sudden dislike for adult content. I had about 20 posts flagged and therefore hidden by tumblr’s new algorithm. None of them remotely pornographic - unsur … | Continue reading
historicalfirearms: Sir Hiram Maxim’s Pipe of Peace The ‘Pipe of Peace’ is perhaps the most unusual and ironic invention from Hiram S. Maxim, the inventor of the machine gun. Maxim was a longtime sufferer of bronchitis and in 1909 he filed a British patent for an inhaler and a mi … | Continue reading
The Soviet Ampulomet With the German invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, the Red Army scrambled for anti-tank weapons. One system hurriedly developed was the Ampulomet, a mortar designed to launch an glass projectile filled with an incendiary mixture. The Ampulomet - name … | Continue reading