Rifleman62 FIELD GEAR & PERSONAL ITEMS Use this area to post any type of WWI equipment or field related gear, including webbing, shovels, field phones...and any type of personal gear, like lighters, soap, shaving kits, etc. Moderator:pylon1357 ...
Lost 2 engines beyond point of ‘No Return’…we all had to throw out our personal gear (including German Mauser sniper rifle). Made it to coast of Florida at 25’ above water.” So, within ground effect, the loaded B-17G on two engines brought the men home…with at least one roll...
was officially chosen by the Canadian Armed Forces and designated the C14. It was to be a direct replacement for the C3A1 and is now their primary sniper systerm. The full designation for the rifle is the C14 Timberwolf MRSWS (Medium Range Sniper Rifle System) anti-personnel sniper rifle...
Toronto police say they found a rifle and bullets at the home of a genocidal Jewish supremacist activist who they accuse of uttering death threats. It’s a sign of the violent fascistic tendencies of the city’s Israel supporters. Eli Schwarz was charged and arrested with uttering death threats...
CANSOFCOM is an odd anomaly in the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF). Not quite on equal terms to the other services, they’re commanded by a “one-star” (currently Brig. Gen. Mike Rouleau), while the other services are commanded by a “four-star” lieutenant general or vice admiral. ...
Although William Hall was not among the 111 riflemen, seamen, and hussars who received Queen Victoria’s new award in the wake of the Crimean War, he soon gained another opportunity to prove his mettle. On the other side of the world, in the regions of northern India governed by the Bri...
A former Canadian Armed Forces sniper is battling two fights in Ukraine – against Russian forces on the front lines and Russian disinformation claiming he was killed in action. 🔥当俄羅斯侵略烏克蘭的戰爭來到第14天时(2022.3.9),触发第一波1.6萬國際志願軍從全球各地來到烏克蘭參戰抗俄,其中,加拿大的...
He was not the only one. “I heard bullets going by and looked up to see bullet holes in my chute,” remembered Private de Vries, “it sounds just like being in the rifle butts!” His thoughts, he admitted, “were to get down fast.” Major Eadie too became the target of...
in capturing a German Hanomaghalf-track. A couple of days later he was injured by aphosphorusgrenade while fighting a group ofGerman SS soldiers, and he lost partial vision in his left eye; he refused to be evacuated back to England because he needed only his right eye to sight a rifle...
in it’s infancy the return spring back to the unit was broken and this unit facilitated a transition out of the Canadian Armed Forces. I think that is changing, but that is an aside, and I’ve drifted off topic a little. But by the very name of the unit, perhaps I haven’t. Bec...