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Identify this - 2/12/2005 9:16:46 AM   
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RE: Identify this - 2/12/2005 9:41:57 AM   
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RE: Identify this - 2/12/2005 2:34:11 PM   
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RE: Identify this - 2/12/2005 5:41:07 PM   
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RE: Identify this - 2/12/2005 6:50:50 PM   
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RE: Identify this - 2/12/2005 6:53:34 PM   
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It sorta looks like one of those parachute dropped supply cannisters...


That was gonna be my guess too.

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RE: Identify this - 2/12/2005 9:04:48 PM   
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It sorta looks like one of those parachute dropped supply cannisters...


I dont have the discipline of Brady (so I am going to post a hint )...but the guy on the right looks to have a level of caution not warranted by opening a parachute cannister.

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RE: Identify this - 2/12/2005 10:37:50 PM   
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It sorta looks like one of those parachute dropped supply cannisters...


I dont have the discipline of Brady (so I am going to post a hint )...but the guy on the right looks to have a level of caution not warranted by opening a parachute cannister.


I thought maybe his anxious look was just his worrying about if the Pilsner Urquell in it was broken...

But, by your hint i guess not a supply container. Maybe this is a delayed action (or dud) incendiary bomb?

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RE: Identify this - 2/13/2005 3:40:09 AM   
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It sorta looks like one of those parachute dropped supply cannisters...


I dont have the discipline of Brady (so I am going to post a hint )...but the guy on the right looks to have a level of caution not warranted by opening a parachute cannister.


How about a Bangalore torpedo? (maybe they are fiddling with the fuze, etc.)

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RE: Identify this - 2/13/2005 5:25:10 AM   
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Status: offline 		Bangalore's aren't that big around. One person can carry muliple sections of a bangalore. Bangalore's are just like a rigid line charge.

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RE: Identify this - 2/13/2005 5:47:06 AM   
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Bangalore's aren't that big around. One person can carry muliple sections of a bangalore. Bangalore's are just like a rigid line charge.


I was thinking this was the tail end of the thing...

Maybe these guys are midgets??

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RE: Identify this - 2/13/2005 5:56:30 AM   
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Somehow i have the feeling that these guys are trying to disarm something. Maybe a booby-trap? Germ warfare bomb? Poison Gas Cannister?

PS - Are we in the WITP sphere? Those sort of look like oak leaves (i.e. - ETO).

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RE: Identify this - 2/13/2005 6:00:23 AM   
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RE: Identify this - 2/13/2005 6:01:34 AM   
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RE: Identify this - 2/13/2005 6:05:10 AM   
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What is this dangerous looking thing?





This loop of rope (?) that they are holding reminds me of a snare used to catch snakes. Could this be some sort of animal trap or pen?

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RE: Identify this - 2/13/2005 6:15:05 AM   
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Status: offline 		It would have to be a locally improvise one if it was and it looks too shiny for something like that.

And Bangalors were about 2-3" around and in sections of about 4' if I remember correctly. They joined the sections together and slid them through whatever they wanted to blast a path through and detonated them. They are just rigid line charges basically. They are still in use.

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RE: Identify this - 2/13/2005 6:16:46 AM   
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The sleepy submarine had finally laid its periscope on the forest floor, and slumbered deeply. Little did it know that two wiley submarine hunters, armed with a periscope lasso, were going to try to capture her...

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RE: Identify this - 2/13/2005 6:19:53 AM   
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Status: offline 		It looks big enough to be one -- but it doesn't look like any I've ever seen -- but a flame thrower tank?

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RE: Identify this - 2/13/2005 6:20:34 AM   
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It would have to be a locally improvise one if it was and it looks too shiny for something like that.

And Bangalors were about 2-3" around and in sections of about 4' if I remember correctly. They joined the sections together and slid them through whatever they wanted to blast a path through and detonated them. They are just rigid line charges basically. They are still in use.


I thought they were bigger than that - about 4" across (or about 12 inches around). They depicted their use in the Big Red One (Lee Marvin's squad on Omaha Beach) - although i have no idea if the size they showed was technically correct.

This does look bigger than that, though - unless, of course these guys really ARE midgets.

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RE: Identify this - 2/13/2005 6:24:37 AM   
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specs are 2 1/8" dia. and 5' long




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RE: Identify this - 2/13/2005 6:29:01 AM   
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Status: offline 		OK - they look about 2.125" in diameter (or about 7" circumference) - about 5 feet long. They are somewhat shiny.

So, if our subject were about 3' tall, that would be about right - except this thing doesn't seem quite round.

Argh - you edited as i was entering this! So i am counter-editing

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RE: Identify this - 2/13/2005 6:37:10 AM   
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RE: Identify this - 2/13/2005 6:39:20 AM   
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RE: Identify this - 2/13/2005 6:40:23 AM   
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I was an Ammo Tech in the Corps...I know more about ordnance than I do ships...


Are those REAL bangalores, or is this from a movie (i.e. Big Red One)?

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RE: Identify this - 2/13/2005 6:43:17 AM   
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RE: Identify this - 2/13/2005 6:43:19 AM   
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Is the guy on the left holding an IV line?


About to resusitate this thing?

I dunno - at first i thought it was the hose part on a stethoscope, then a parachute line, then a fuze, then a snare. Maybe an IV line (i think they were rubber in WW2 - hadn't gotten nice plastic ones yet).

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RE: Identify this - 2/13/2005 5:12:37 PM   
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RE: Identify this - 2/13/2005 5:29:20 PM   
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Status: offline 		I've worked with studying bombs and seen probably a hundred WWII designs from various countries. I'm 99% sure that that thing is not a bomb. I think it's a torpedo. Probably a torpedo bomber emergency released it due to flak damage or something like that. The design looks about right and the size should match (roughly 17.7"/44 cm in diameter).

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RE: Identify this - 2/13/2005 6:22:34 PM   
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RE: Identify this - 2/13/2005 6:56:38 PM   
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