tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-214659592063081228.post1825772608295967517..comments2024-03-22T21:21:26.493+10:00Comments on 20th Century Wargames: The Warrant OfficerAlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06718729719551125559noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-214659592063081228.post-89807661504616761322014-11-06T09:34:03.043+10:002014-11-06T09:34:03.043+10:00I just got that Zeveda set last Sunday. Being pain...I just got that Zeveda set last Sunday. Being painted as South Saskatchewan Regiment.irishhighlanderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11560543695636931736noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-214659592063081228.post-53136465702086464002014-11-04T20:53:17.442+10:002014-11-04T20:53:17.442+10:00Methinks UK owes NZ great debt of thanks. Thompson...Methinks UK owes NZ great debt of thanks. Thompsons sent to CDO units (thought of as too good for Home Guard) but HG got a replacement... the 'Plumbers delight' or Sten gun made by plumbers workshops for 12 old shillings (60p) each.Service Ration Distribution (Hobby)https://www.blogger.com/profile/03608959257303511437noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-214659592063081228.post-90057136039660329092014-11-03T19:35:03.235+10:002014-11-03T19:35:03.235+10:00Great comments, thanks gang. Research from Gerard ...Great comments, thanks gang. Research from Gerard suggests that they were definitely available to a few units in France at the very generous issue rate of x3 per battalion, more as it arrives Alhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06718729719551125559noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-214659592063081228.post-22361890565356621332014-11-03T07:29:39.965+10:002014-11-03T07:29:39.965+10:00 I read that the Drum mags bullets would click and... I read that the Drum mags bullets would click and clack...very bad on night patrols. The fig is spot on. Tsold9000https://www.blogger.com/profile/05986928166736969527noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-214659592063081228.post-83342055715745579252014-11-03T02:29:28.009+10:002014-11-03T02:29:28.009+10:00....and here comes the woman who knows nothing. Ra.......and here comes the woman who knows nothing. Rather embarrassing after all the erudite people before me.<br /><br />I think it's lovely that you painted this up and did the swap as a way to remember your grandfathers stories. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01681799401614263953noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-214659592063081228.post-56254590043177804122014-11-02T22:51:01.309+10:002014-11-02T22:51:01.309+10:00As I've always understood it...we had no autom...As I've always understood it...we had no automatic weapon of the SMG type (not quite cricket old boy etc...) in 1939, so when feedback/int.reports on the fall of Poland had plenty to say about the MP38 and such like, which made it clear this war was going to have very little cricket about it, we went straight to Thompson with filthy cash lucre...hence why we ended up with 'gangsters' drum magazines (awkward in vehicles etc...) not the in-line mag? Home guard certainly got them a few months later - than the fall of France?<br /><br />Nice you had a chance to talk to him, I always regret not talking to my Uncle Ernest about his experiences (he was gassed in France 25 years earlier), but I was very young and his generation didn't talk much about it...Hugh Walterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10689023221814673819noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-214659592063081228.post-87413765031401308072014-11-02T21:51:01.387+10:002014-11-02T21:51:01.387+10:00Detailed comment, thanks MaxiDetailed comment, thanks MaxiAlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06718729719551125559noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-214659592063081228.post-72251243860122503102014-11-02T21:04:28.265+10:002014-11-02T21:04:28.265+10:00very interesting story!
Great Britain purchased ma...very interesting story!<br />Great Britain purchased many Thompson M1 from USA in 1940, so it's quite possible that they were issued to the troops during the Dunkirk evacuation.<br />byeLuca Tempestahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07164244952867378423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-214659592063081228.post-28824100486500465522014-11-02T19:54:21.602+10:002014-11-02T19:54:21.602+10:00Hello.
Thompson (Eversti J.T. Thompson) is a very...Hello.<br />Thompson (Eversti J.T. Thompson) is a very old (the second oldest), after Hugo Bergmann MP18 submachine, but bergmann is only rod magazine.<br /><br />Beretta (Bruno) was third M18 / or M1918/30, but ready to works well after Thompson<br />beretta's only rod magazine models<br /><br />Thompson First model was 1921.<br />drum-fed or drum-magazine had a problem with all's sub-machine guns. <br /><br />There were only two manufacturers who are successful these drum-magazines Thompson and Aimo Lahti (Kp-31) SMG, <br />The third best drum system was a Russian PPsh (1941), Kp-31 copymaximexhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12096663908456909910noreply@blogger.com