Archive for May, 2010

Problem with activation

Hi there, I dont know if I am writing in a proper board but I have got a problem with activation, link i receive in email is not working... http://warrelics.eu/?5b1b464e61a626539628fe4a098,

Wanted: Looking for several items for M72 66mm LAW and SVT40 Rifle

Hi, this is an odd little list of things that I’m looking for. The main being the gas plug for a Russian Tokarev SVT40 Rifle which is missing from my deact, I’m also looking for the fold down end cap for a M72 LAW and the correct sling. If you have any of these items or know where I can get them can you let me know?

Many thanks and your help is appreciated cool militaria

Danny

Question m1899 bayonets

I recently came across 2 m1899 bayonets with the at3 markings. Both have matching scabbard and have the frogs. one is serial number 870 and the other is 1261. both are in very good condition. question is, I want to sell one of them, which should I sell and how much should I ask. They are the double edged bayonet. I would almost say they are mint. On the back side of the guard, there is a letter c in both crossguards, opposite side of the serial numbers. Would these be considered yugoslavian because of the Kraiyervac arsenal stamp? I will submit pics tomorrow if anyone is interested in seeing one of these or both. Pretty neat. I was happy to see these as I never seen one before.

Any input would be nice if anyone knows much about these bayonets.

Brent

Awww……man…..

It's just sad seeing war relics like this....

I don't mind seeing things recycled, but come on....doing this to a Canadian helmet..?
You know, putting on the flowers, and Nancy-ing it all up like that..??


Available on eBay if anyone is interested...

UNUSUAL WW II CANADIAN ARMY HEMET CANADA TIN HAT on eBay.ca (item 290439001988 end time 01-Jun-10 21:09:23 EDT)

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US Army Dump Diggers-See You Sunday!!

The weather is set to be good for us Sunday 30th and at least it will be dry for the Central region which is good and not boiling hot!! Mrs Bomford has given us the thumbs up and parking will be at the same place as last time in the small field area. We should do really well again this time and Sarah the wife is coming along so i will bring a deck chair while she does all my digging for me lol! Shes just commented P*** Off lol!! She also says if she finds a Browning .50 cal the highest bidder gets it! Cheers everyone and see you Sunday 10am sharp! Regards, Tim.

Witold Pilecki - The Polish hero that too few know about

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Originally Posted by 4thskorpion (Post 148599)
In Memoriam+

Witold Pilecki was executed 62 years ago yesterday in Warsaw—he was the personification of a hero that loved his country above all else.

Witold Pilecki

Amen. Thank you Stefan for posting this. I felt that this great man deserves a dedicated thread, so have also included your post here as an introduction.

Every freedom loving person should pause for a moment to remember this most remarkable person. The word hero is used so often nowadays so as to devalue its meaning. Witold Pilecki was a true hero in every sense of the word.

Here’s a site I found that provides more detail of this great man’s accomplishments. Well worth reading.

Witold Pilecki (amazing life of the Polish hero that too few know about)

Best regards,
Tony

Gun site ww2?

HI,NOT SURE WHAT I HAVE and WHAT GUN IT WENT TO COULD SOMEONE HELP ME?THANK YOU GUYS!!


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Gewehr 98

Gewehr 98. Found in the ground. To complement the model had a wooden stock of a rifle . But I do not know from which model ?

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The ‘Grey Ranks’ (Polish:Szare Szeregi)

For those that are interested in the "Grey Ranks" a new book will be available in June 2010 from SPP-PUMST. It is in Polish.

Tucked in the back appendix of this book is a poignant 1944 letter from the "Grey Ranks" fighting in occupied Poland to their British scouting counterparts:

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A LETTER FROM THE ‘GREY RANKS’ TO THE BRITISH SCOUT ASSOCIATION


[A letter from ‘Pasieka’ (Polish Scout Association HQ.) from January of 1944 carried by the courier Jerzy Lerski ‘Jur’, who left Warsaw during the final days of January 1944 and reached London in April 1944. The letter was summarized for representatives of the British Scout Association on the 16th of May 1944.]

Polish Scout Association HQ transmitted the following assessment of the world scouting movement’s situation by way of the Grey Ranks’ Chief Scout, with whom ‘Jur’ had three successive meetings:

1. The ‘Grey Ranks’ (Szare Szeregi—Poland’s underground scout association) are conscious of their brotherly scouting ties with the world scouting movement. They believe that the scout associations of different countries form a family brought up on similar scouting principles. All national associations are responsible for the entire international scouting movement.

2. The Movement emphasises that the educational ideal forming the basis of the Polish association’s activities derives from the law and oath formulated by Baden-Powell. The moral principles of scout training have come into especially sharp focus in the conditions of underground resistance work carried out by the Movement in Poland for almost five years now.

3. The Polish Scout Association in great concern draws attention to the impending crisis of trust towards the Anglo-Saxon West. The young people of the conquered countries of East-Central Europe, and especially Poland, repose their hopes in Great Britain and the United States. These young people believed in both the truth and honesty of their statements. They believed that the principles of the ‘Atlantic Charter’, as well as President Roosevelt’s policy of the ‘four freedoms’, are universal, yet also essential guidelines for the present war’s aims. The statement concerning the defence of Christian principles of democracy in national and international life, mutual respect and the application of national laws and international justice are the same principles, in whose defence Poland began her solitary struggle against oppression and tyranny on the 1st of September 1939 and continues to do so still, together with the Allies. The recent signs of undoubted opportunism in world politics fill Poland’s young people with dread. The Polish Scout Association asks, therefore, its brothers and sisters, boy scouts and girl guides, whether they are aware of the existence of the dangerous extremes of cynicism. The Western World will thus no longer have the right, nor the ability to educate its future generations in these principles, which have hitherto been the basis of the education of young people. For if we recognise the right of oppression, if tactics and games, opportunism and a lack of moral courage are to defeat truth and justice, it will be impossible to base the future of education on the principles of Christian faith, Western European law and a universal sense of right and justice.

4. The Polish underground scout association, suffering great and bloody sacrifices on a daily basis, inquires whether indeed the great moral capital, earned by fighting for the principles which were the basis of scout training, is to be squandered once and for all.

You must understand that people are prepared to endure the greatest torture, they are prepared to die in battle, but they do not want to die in vain: they do not want to believe and will not believe that the struggle they have been conducting has been pointless; that its conclusion is to be the surrender of all that they were brought up in, have come to love and for which so many have already laid down their lives.

Our generation, the generation of struggle and reared on the scouting principles of service to God, Country and one’s neighbour, is conscious that if the future of the world is to be decided by the strength and tyranny of some and the concomitant weakness and fearfulness of others, then our generation may well be the last which is prepared to fight and die in defence of those principles which form the basis of scout training. Cynical egoism and opportunism will put an end to the scouting movement and life will lose all meaning.

5. The Scout Association in Poland has learnt of the British scouting associations’ preparations to bring post-war relief to the young people of the occupied countries. These preparations are very important and are proof of the international brotherhood of scouting.

The Polish Scout Association believes that, despite the great significance of material assistance, its significance is secondary. Speak not and think not of ‘poor Poland’ needing material assistance. We want neither your pity nor your generosity. We are on the front line and a front-line soldier has no inferiority complex, needs no admiration, needs no pity. He simply wants his effort, his work and his struggle to be understood and not to have been in vain. He wants proof that you understand what the Polish Underground Scout Association is fighting for.

Hence the Scout Association in Poland calls on you to inform the young people of Britain, and above all those in the scouting movement, of our steadfast struggle and of the hopes of Poland’s young people. Our Underground Association sends you the book Kamienie na szaniec [Stones on the Rampart], published in Warsaw in the summer of 1943 with the request that it be translated into English and distributed amongst the young people of Britain. The Chief Scout of the ‘Grey Ranks’ asks the British scouting authorities to take this publication under its patronage and to write a foreword to it."

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Translation of Polish original from " HARCERZE SZARYCH SZEREGÓW" by JERZY JABRZEMSKI to be published in June 2010 by SPP-PUMST (Studium Polski PodziemnejSPP or The Polish Underground Movement (1939-1945) Study TrustPUMST), London
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I have attached the cover cool militaria

The scouting badges are from the SPP-PUMST collection but are unfortunately not reproduced in the book but it does contain many other Szare Szeregi photographs in B&W. As always the proceeds go to funding the work of SPP-PUMST so they are most welcome of the supporting sales cool militariacool militaria

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Question KM breasteagle

Looks ok, does It? thanks


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