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Cap Mandrake -> Identify this (2/12/2005 9:16:46 AM)
What is this dangerous looking thing? [image]local://upfiles/7983/Om325114423.jpg[/image]

WhoCares -> RE: Identify this (2/12/2005 9:41:57 AM)
A stranded torpedo?

tsimmonds -> RE: Identify this (2/12/2005 2:34:11 PM)
R2! Get up!

bilbow -> RE: Identify this (2/12/2005 5:41:07 PM)
A booby-trapped golf bag?

rtrapasso -> RE: Identify this (2/12/2005 6:50:50 PM)
It sorta looks like one of those parachute dropped supply cannisters...

Twotribes -> RE: Identify this (2/12/2005 6:53:34 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: rtrapasso It sorta looks like one of those parachute dropped supply cannisters... That was gonna be my guess too.

Cap Mandrake -> RE: Identify this (2/12/2005 9:04:48 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: rtrapasso 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.

rtrapasso -> RE: Identify this (2/12/2005 10:37:50 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake quote: ORIGINAL: rtrapasso 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?

rtrapasso -> RE: Identify this (2/13/2005 3:40:09 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake quote: ORIGINAL: rtrapasso 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.)

rogueusmc -> RE: Identify this (2/13/2005 5:25:10 AM)
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.

rtrapasso -> RE: Identify this (2/13/2005 5:47:06 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: rogueusmc 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??[:D]

rtrapasso -> RE: Identify this (2/13/2005 5:56:30 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake [image]local://upfiles/7983/Om325114423.jpg[/image] 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).

DeepSix -> RE: Identify this (2/13/2005 6:00:23 AM)
Remember Spock's coffin from the Star Trek movies? Kinda looks like that.[:D]

Twotribes -> RE: Identify this (2/13/2005 6:01:34 AM)
I dont think they had photon torpedo tubes in WW2 )

rtrapasso -> RE: Identify this (2/13/2005 6:05:10 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake What is this dangerous looking thing? [image]local://upfiles/7983/Om325114423.jpg[/image] 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?

rogueusmc -> RE: Identify this (2/13/2005 6:15:05 AM)
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.

rtrapasso -> RE: Identify this (2/13/2005 6:16:46 AM)
[image]local://upfiles/7983/Om325114423.jpg[/image] 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...

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

rtrapasso -> RE: Identify this (2/13/2005 6:20:34 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: rogueusmc 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.

rogueusmc -> RE: Identify this (2/13/2005 6:24:37 AM)
here's a pic of a bangalore specs are 2 1/8" dia. and 5' long [image]local://upfiles/10891/Pm351577741.jpg[/image]

rtrapasso -> RE: Identify this (2/13/2005 6:29:01 AM)
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[:D] - except this thing doesn't seem quite round. Argh - you edited as i was entering this! [:-] So i am counter-editing[:'(]

rogueusmc -> RE: Identify this (2/13/2005 6:37:10 AM)
I was an Ammo Tech in the Corps...I know more about ordnance than I do ships...[:D]

DeepSix -> RE: Identify this (2/13/2005 6:39:20 AM)
Is the guy on the left holding an IV line?

rtrapasso -> RE: Identify this (2/13/2005 6:40:23 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: rogueusmc I was an Ammo Tech in the Corps...I know more about ordnance than I do ships...[:D] Are those REAL bangalores, or is this from a movie (i.e. Big Red One)?

rogueusmc -> RE: Identify this (2/13/2005 6:43:17 AM)
Actually, that image is a screen shot from Saving Private Ryan, but I have used bangalores before and can attest to their size and such.

rtrapasso -> RE: Identify this (2/13/2005 6:43:19 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: DeepSix 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).

Cap Mandrake -> RE: Identify this (2/13/2005 5:12:37 PM)
Hint: This is Pacific theater...and it is a projectile [X(]

tonyingesson -> RE: Identify this (2/13/2005 5:29:20 PM)
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).

Knavey -> RE: Identify this (2/13/2005 6:22:34 PM)
Rabbit trap?

Stavka_lite -> RE: Identify this (2/13/2005 6:56:38 PM)
Its a thingymabobwhachamacallit hollowed widget type gadget mk3

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