Milsurp Picture of the Day

A few "small" artillery pieces from WW I

Artillery lends dignity to what would otherwise be a vulgar brawl.

Tarawa

U.S. WWI soldiers with rifle grenades

Pic is not the best so I cant tell what exactly the center sailor is cleaning, but from the stories I've heard it may be a BAR. They didnt get any new weapons. I'm told the junk crews were just as afraid of the bowie knives that the boarding crews carried as they were the Tommy guns.


"The men relax on the fantail and clean their equiptment while waiting for another junk to inspect off the coast of VietNam during the Market Time Exercises"
http://www.usspledge.com/

Rbelote wrote:My grandfather carried a bar. THey say they are 20lbs unloaded. I never checked though.

The latter M-60 which was a reverse engineered MG42 weighed in at a feathery 24lbs.

I proudly carried the M2 Carbine or the M1 Garand during my tours in Germany and my favorite cannon in Germany in the 1950's was the M65 280MM Atomic Cannon;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:M65_Atomic_canon_1.jpg
http://www.olive-drab.com/idphoto/id_photos_atomic.php3

1962 Vietnam

1959 QUANTICO, VA

1958 Lebanon