2012 February | Sõja ajaloo portaal. Militaria.ee

What I have here

What I have here ?
Any help would be appreciated

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Belted Magnums

Some belted magnums I have.

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WWI British Explosive Sweep Manual

When I was gathering material for my book, Find and Destroy: Antisubmarine Warfare in WWI (Naval Institute Press 2001), I acquired this leather-bound manual.

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The Explosive Paravane, or Submarine Sweep, was a towed device that was issued to destroyers and trawlers during WWI, as illustrated in this diagram from the Manual.

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It could be exploded on contact or remotely from the towing ship. A sweep contact, of which only one occurred in WWI, is shown here in a drawing from my book.

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The explosive paravane was launched much like putting a lifeboat in the water. The tricky part was heaving it aboard because the charge was armed and set to explode on contact. This diagram is also from the manual.

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This is what the device looked like. It was 6-feet, 3-inches (2 m) long and 20-inches in diameter (80cm), and packed a 400-pound TNT charge in the nose. The spinner on the nose armed the charge much like a falling bomb.

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Cmdr. C. Dennis Burney, RN, invented the explosive sweep and its sister, the mine-sweeping paravane that is still in use.

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As with every book I have written, I built a 1:8 model and acquired some representitive artifact or artifacts. In this case the Vickers manual is the artifact. Dwight

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exam-badge “Motor-HJ”

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Want to show you a seldom seen representation badge of the "Motor-HJ".

This "Sonderarmscheibe" was worn on the left lower arm of the Uniform.

Hitler-Jungen from 15 yrs. on got this badge after learning to drive a motor-vehicle and after getting skills in repairing a Kfz, (Kraftfahrzeug), and skills in traffic rules and traffic signs.

Diameter: app. 4,5 cm

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