tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29567138480099719882024-03-27T16:54:55.176-07:00Arnhem JimArnhemjimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01794722964883335445noreply@blogger.comBlogger178125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2956713848009971988.post-57417046909772466122023-10-25T12:27:00.016-07:002023-11-18T08:37:40.099-08:00A Different Kind of Bespoken Gun for a King at War<p><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">When one thinks of a bespoken firearm, names like Boss & Co., Holland & Holland, Purdy and Rigby, and shotguns, normally come to mind, particularly for the King of Great Britain. But that would not be the case with King George VI during World War II. An entirely different gun once which belonged to George VI, now resides in the Imperial War Museum. It is in a suitably inconspicuous wooden cased (attache type), and is a STEN Mk II 9mm Machine Carbine, with three fully loaded magazines, and additional ammunition in the nine boxed compartments to the left part of the case (estimated 450 rounds). Unlike the normal production cost $10.00 USD configuration it has an extremely well finished exterior surface, and I feel certain precisely toleranced interior parts, specifically the magazine followers and feed lips. There is a question as to how frequently either he personally, or his equerry, carried the cased weapon during the entire World War II. </span>(Editorial note: Perhaps the recommendations of certain current leaders should be reviewed in the context of the King's choice. He gave both Elizabeth and Margeret shooting instruction, Elizabeth learning on a Thompson .45cal. Model 1921 Sub-Machine Gun, which purportedly belonged to Prime Minster Winston Churchill).</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5dgY9W_eqqxgsi-MrZfP5ySKAGHQ0pPfK43LLQijCXgy28tQ_tR5B9ttqFaYj-C8qsZ81nbRTAg0VJ0EtaZYnS0hjU278iUEUKJsNB8Xy-60leEC9nF0BPfOEvAzBcsz4YwEy1LkzZpmyp_3TekKfBCyXGdUzyH7xrEB1svlEGhfSDQcEGa94aU9FwsrA/s800/main-qimg-2166a64baa4a249b54c478c7c2932b03.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="800" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5dgY9W_eqqxgsi-MrZfP5ySKAGHQ0pPfK43LLQijCXgy28tQ_tR5B9ttqFaYj-C8qsZ81nbRTAg0VJ0EtaZYnS0hjU278iUEUKJsNB8Xy-60leEC9nF0BPfOEvAzBcsz4YwEy1LkzZpmyp_3TekKfBCyXGdUzyH7xrEB1svlEGhfSDQcEGa94aU9FwsrA/s320/main-qimg-2166a64baa4a249b54c478c7c2932b03.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdN2YV_SCI3HGUTxWEKuYynRfnVfK-2CJQtWM8lwPS-ioJ9Y9MB440naq4QZr-2ARcqxEIY5ayyMbR-Hfi9zql7nHvZ72uAz03-MDjU3zUbvqVCGyVScreuocvfSwsRZ8sfCS64TjkUwejvWSrRegQdk898viE4YpDBXxJZzDjTw13YnCyJtjkVygv7i4X/s800/tumblr_mkyfy1HESh1s57vgxo2_1280.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="800" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdN2YV_SCI3HGUTxWEKuYynRfnVfK-2CJQtWM8lwPS-ioJ9Y9MB440naq4QZr-2ARcqxEIY5ayyMbR-Hfi9zql7nHvZ72uAz03-MDjU3zUbvqVCGyVScreuocvfSwsRZ8sfCS64TjkUwejvWSrRegQdk898viE4YpDBXxJZzDjTw13YnCyJtjkVygv7i4X/s320/tumblr_mkyfy1HESh1s57vgxo2_1280.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZnkWpbrj6OgLkVPcMtorN1lUbcRIBIhA3w_KcF3p4z-rfmHl2w5qghAAr2kbvh65cZDlmwgRSZv_gp7TOCjHbEhBY089NMnkJpEPNvv3BpEYpHuyMvQmuFAUB6vFjCJLPUy8LFhX0jgqWfs7reKpj8IQxsYz-I80etNvRYWzAY5lLXozo1BeWSkcYU2vg/s1800/8eb48b8f39031654c3c3c879694ab2af.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1308" data-original-width="1800" height="233" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZnkWpbrj6OgLkVPcMtorN1lUbcRIBIhA3w_KcF3p4z-rfmHl2w5qghAAr2kbvh65cZDlmwgRSZv_gp7TOCjHbEhBY089NMnkJpEPNvv3BpEYpHuyMvQmuFAUB6vFjCJLPUy8LFhX0jgqWfs7reKpj8IQxsYz-I80etNvRYWzAY5lLXozo1BeWSkcYU2vg/s320/8eb48b8f39031654c3c3c879694ab2af.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>It is not known to the author whether this image of Prime Minister Winston Churchill shows him with that specific weapon, but it is the correct configuration.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiolHzYRmy8GPaDBwKMCSIbzpneYKQS3PZFSgsLZ9YoXJYGBr_OSw4cgVpSui5YK1Lc8LtqGkO9nxp5vlEpynUeOm8NgwLlHBhAN7Zf1uv4FO0X7_dEBlf75fYAbT-tbqKU8xxIKIOjk2jM8PK7xxONxSfzoCzFN9nppXbSV3pYPDYv8kT9CqgYsmnMmdrw/s1600/s-l1600.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1131" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiolHzYRmy8GPaDBwKMCSIbzpneYKQS3PZFSgsLZ9YoXJYGBr_OSw4cgVpSui5YK1Lc8LtqGkO9nxp5vlEpynUeOm8NgwLlHBhAN7Zf1uv4FO0X7_dEBlf75fYAbT-tbqKU8xxIKIOjk2jM8PK7xxONxSfzoCzFN9nppXbSV3pYPDYv8kT9CqgYsmnMmdrw/s320/s-l1600.jpg" width="226" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div>Arnhemjimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01794722964883335445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2956713848009971988.post-56039714098653632172023-10-09T16:31:00.022-07:002024-02-26T16:16:39.152-08:00Kitting the British Tommy through the Ages<p> <span face="Calibri, sans-serif">In 2014, The Telegraph published a pictorial series showing the kit of a British soldier at various times throughout modern history from The Battle of Hastings to Helmand Province. The actual work was done by well known London based photographer, Thom Atkinson. This author believes that this series merits being re-shown as a definitive reference for military historians, artists, toy soldier, and military miniature collectors. A few of the numerically annotated images were inadvertently cropped, and in one case the image and text (The Alma 1854) were completely omitted. Where possible these have been augmented with full images. Each image can be enlarged by double tapping your mouse.With full acknowledgement and gratitude to the Telegraph and Thom Atkinson, the full series is again presented herein.</span></p><p><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ4jtnWf1AzFYPiE54NLYqRhUB-HFmLvL0FhCOsBdaMD08P03EAumZkY25KEGrHyMlDNS00h2OkV0NhiVjcJJ_qB6icOQGdemtzAfuQeyU7bCAL85Mchyphenhyphenz8qAY3sjEmcGlLCJ2gXtbqKXPLoahaXJKQUJ2O6rtcKhUiN9Q9gkM80e6GQJ7Y9GhKixndhp2/s1650/Military%20kit%20through%20the%20ages:%20from%20the%20Battle%20of%20Hastings%20to%20Helmand%20-%20Telegraph_000001.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1650" data-original-width="1275" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ4jtnWf1AzFYPiE54NLYqRhUB-HFmLvL0FhCOsBdaMD08P03EAumZkY25KEGrHyMlDNS00h2OkV0NhiVjcJJ_qB6icOQGdemtzAfuQeyU7bCAL85Mchyphenhyphenz8qAY3sjEmcGlLCJ2gXtbqKXPLoahaXJKQUJ2O6rtcKhUiN9Q9gkM80e6GQJ7Y9GhKixndhp2/s320/Military%20kit%20through%20the%20ages:%20from%20the%20Battle%20of%20Hastings%20to%20Helmand%20-%20Telegraph_000001.jpg" width="247" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; 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font-size: 13.333333px;">The Battle of Alma in 1854</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;">The Battle of the Alma was the first battle of the Crimean War fought between British, French and Turkish troops against the Russians. The allied army defeated the Russians, blocked their advance on Sebastopol, and forced them to retreat, which largely shaped the rest of the Crimean War. 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If text is found, will be included.<div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih8mFavWjnhXl1c8eswWY4CLLjp_x3M1EkgE8qXI89cC-ZFVtxo-itbkQMFIdxf0NeY5XivF-iHRiUVpHZHgr5S9T3ES0GdlRs6jbKIJRAW-HIbyS6HB3tfChqlBhKxieEd29OjihyaOYcwP4-6Kkyo7EoBdE7Szn_CN4m3C25ILh-bzb-ig7TLMBIHDee/s620/1381768.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="413" data-original-width="620" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih8mFavWjnhXl1c8eswWY4CLLjp_x3M1EkgE8qXI89cC-ZFVtxo-itbkQMFIdxf0NeY5XivF-iHRiUVpHZHgr5S9T3ES0GdlRs6jbKIJRAW-HIbyS6HB3tfChqlBhKxieEd29OjihyaOYcwP4-6Kkyo7EoBdE7Szn_CN4m3C25ILh-bzb-ig7TLMBIHDee/s320/1381768.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Norman Knight, Hastings 1066</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNrnG7h6C1NfCHwDj2YtrpxY_tDrVFy1UZvIxpKOo1Oc0q37d7j_B5x9a1U0ZwanNfdUDwjuFNFK0Ky0y31oBtDn7_pm05T9Z2LE_Ez2K1A_z2lxTE8kGjtfH93h0Jk9lwaRCB4CUUJPYZMf6jFtdfMc_eIZGj9uusFaq0sT0crEnSDqpz-tRSFmVMdLQG/s990/1381771.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="618" data-original-width="990" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNrnG7h6C1NfCHwDj2YtrpxY_tDrVFy1UZvIxpKOo1Oc0q37d7j_B5x9a1U0ZwanNfdUDwjuFNFK0Ky0y31oBtDn7_pm05T9Z2LE_Ez2K1A_z2lxTE8kGjtfH93h0Jk9lwaRCB4CUUJPYZMf6jFtdfMc_eIZGj9uusFaq0sT0crEnSDqpz-tRSFmVMdLQG/s320/1381771.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Longbowman (Yeoman) 100 Years War, Early 15th Century</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG2vgZ7u8g5lcMB9lKitvKS6JSP2et5hX_T_sb66uRuYkPfS4zfZOvlYGOs8UIhThsZTrzlwFXeN7FoJfyD-lCq6Epw-2xeUlfvggJWXr8FQREP5g4sEWCqXp6eZpk82N-nl8nOnvdbKva2KIr1Z_86AsipyDNFT-n9HiXd2EtsrGhHxkn2PgDT7DWyHsn/s858/1381788.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="536" data-original-width="858" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG2vgZ7u8g5lcMB9lKitvKS6JSP2et5hX_T_sb66uRuYkPfS4zfZOvlYGOs8UIhThsZTrzlwFXeN7FoJfyD-lCq6Epw-2xeUlfvggJWXr8FQREP5g4sEWCqXp6eZpk82N-nl8nOnvdbKva2KIr1Z_86AsipyDNFT-n9HiXd2EtsrGhHxkn2PgDT7DWyHsn/s320/1381788.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Private, War of the Spanish Succession, First Decade 18th Century</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Second Addendum: An additional set of images from various nations and periods of history</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeEH53n4YZXE_6f89VmjqNgEUIKpMHhNDlcVDrLhsfyUfIpAOifDvnDFi4yAxzx13EMp_TfNn-hG3Ey2BjXb1t71_YhaI1jAEg86m9evMMPU8TwFDWLqsN3NVsVSYXZk1NJUeAezbOuA1KIRJuvn-oNEGUS92sDAZpemc9lJYzu4HSynzd_seE8XulRuqD/s1920/6147e194-e7cf-4d07-80be-4d3f7e6b72c9.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1281" data-original-width="1920" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeEH53n4YZXE_6f89VmjqNgEUIKpMHhNDlcVDrLhsfyUfIpAOifDvnDFi4yAxzx13EMp_TfNn-hG3Ey2BjXb1t71_YhaI1jAEg86m9evMMPU8TwFDWLqsN3NVsVSYXZk1NJUeAezbOuA1KIRJuvn-oNEGUS92sDAZpemc9lJYzu4HSynzd_seE8XulRuqD/s320/6147e194-e7cf-4d07-80be-4d3f7e6b72c9.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: times;">Reconnaissance Soldier, 2nd Battalion Royal Anglian Regiment ‘The Poachers’, Exercise Steadfast Defender, 2024<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: times;">This belongs to a soldier who had his bag packed and was ready to ship off to Poland as part of a Nato exercise A drone, camera and heat map are essential for a reconnaissance soldier. The weapon is a very precise rifle with long-range sight. A Ghillie suit (centre, above the protective vest) acts as camouflage for undercover reccies on the front line. <span style="font-size: x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw-t8QoqBCNDHQAqjE8mFSs5AwsjpmNAJFsv5FbYIV7f99IDCXtAg-PG0A6qtCZtn01LAAx-B4ikvkDnUzgPrKmPxar6JorphlG_iaUU4hcJLaoyTJ_v2sdAMZIb7TvhalhvfeNc1wC6ba5AmiiumPWjhMrE-5oZ1ZLIIhQwyokiceTyLqTb-7c0fFWLVh/s1920/56597df3-fa6a-46c7-beac-7cf911b0f46b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="1920" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw-t8QoqBCNDHQAqjE8mFSs5AwsjpmNAJFsv5FbYIV7f99IDCXtAg-PG0A6qtCZtn01LAAx-B4ikvkDnUzgPrKmPxar6JorphlG_iaUU4hcJLaoyTJ_v2sdAMZIb7TvhalhvfeNc1wC6ba5AmiiumPWjhMrE-5oZ1ZLIIhQwyokiceTyLqTb-7c0fFWLVh/s320/56597df3-fa6a-46c7-beac-7cf911b0f46b.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: times;">Ukrainian recruit, Operation Interflex UK-led training, 2024<b> <o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: times;">This brand new kit comes from all over the world, supplied by countries supporting Ukraine – all survival and protection gear, no weapons. It includes a minesweeping kit, entrenching tools, waterproof boots for snow, heavy duty boots for trenches, and trainers. Plus a Ukrainian translation of a book about the Spartans.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: start;"><br /></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLoUFcggUWaWO3SU0rs2KQImrUr3zWpcKzhFmrthTfl-zDPhXryxePRXUHLqwtQur1ocSVukOLWESzUewyCL4OGLLf6Z2Z91yVa842OyeNXUO3VMbwh_8uSuBCit0-Atq8eW8Qdhtf5aFiPPwtOlwGY_OxEDWTNONtDMXyIi0W0jWVNVOG0-CID_GykyzR/s1920/539730f7-bd18-45fd-aeaf-1e6129797002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="1920" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLoUFcggUWaWO3SU0rs2KQImrUr3zWpcKzhFmrthTfl-zDPhXryxePRXUHLqwtQur1ocSVukOLWESzUewyCL4OGLLf6Z2Z91yVa842OyeNXUO3VMbwh_8uSuBCit0-Atq8eW8Qdhtf5aFiPPwtOlwGY_OxEDWTNONtDMXyIi0W0jWVNVOG0-CID_GykyzR/s320/539730f7-bd18-45fd-aeaf-1e6129797002.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: times;">Union Army 2nd Sergeant, Battle of Gettysburg, 1863<b> <o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: times;">The American Civil War was a precursor to the First World War; both involved trench fighting and the use of bayonets, such as the one pictured here. Regardless of the country, in the West, says Atkinson, issued kit tend to be very similar. Likewise the creature comforts.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjk0T43KUodvp2h28go_QYhaw0CE5Ydd4z5QqlE4EckLOCb0R21VDmVwEbEUFv4C7xRws4qx81eSVDXlPX4IkNj45q-r-sl2of2tkXBoY0Lf7qfFv1i-ah9_1o0vNNTrDzzPxNWDu0SLmjX_wI3gLtNUdnk-g7BzQp8_ciOduE4hcZR1yNcErxQZIAKurM9/s1920/a77c5f40-d91d-4a9a-bdd0-35fa35c0bf08.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="1920" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjk0T43KUodvp2h28go_QYhaw0CE5Ydd4z5QqlE4EckLOCb0R21VDmVwEbEUFv4C7xRws4qx81eSVDXlPX4IkNj45q-r-sl2of2tkXBoY0Lf7qfFv1i-ah9_1o0vNNTrDzzPxNWDu0SLmjX_wI3gLtNUdnk-g7BzQp8_ciOduE4hcZR1yNcErxQZIAKurM9/s320/a77c5f40-d91d-4a9a-bdd0-35fa35c0bf08.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: times;">Blackfoot Horse Raider, Montana, 1875 <b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: times;">The colourful, decorative nature of this kit belies the fact that it contains the same essentials: food and a way to cook it; tools like a knife or scissors; and warmth with the blankets and furs.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhY_5rrE9IN2KESUdWdB9P5JOYOIiO0VbQJaYuIyU5s22L2bq_jddSsmJBNMArPR01lnO7zN5E-20anC3pB6hdRDLtmIhkk66p-G43bC41fzFRho6kIY54JzRUg3F5iLRzg_YQhCxBFSy01DbcdlGlR04nQwmzmZbMMxPIpPdBgt5xqKhiUukesZpZf2Hoe/s1920/a90b1e19-f342-4ece-92e6-fff9a915b529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="1920" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhY_5rrE9IN2KESUdWdB9P5JOYOIiO0VbQJaYuIyU5s22L2bq_jddSsmJBNMArPR01lnO7zN5E-20anC3pB6hdRDLtmIhkk66p-G43bC41fzFRho6kIY54JzRUg3F5iLRzg_YQhCxBFSy01DbcdlGlR04nQwmzmZbMMxPIpPdBgt5xqKhiUukesZpZf2Hoe/s320/a90b1e19-f342-4ece-92e6-fff9a915b529.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: times;">German Private Soldier, Battle of the Somme, 1916<b> <o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: times;">The First World War started with soldiers riding horses and carrying lances, and ended with tanks, artillery and trench warfare. This German uniform is from the latter end of the conflict and contains, says Atkinson, ‘the ghost of the Second World War in there as well – a lot of things stayed the same.’ </span></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf4hJxkC5ZoM5cd34CoU32wSDRjbnTgrtboeEd1FgQPfOS8btOw2ntGonskrPFK9JlCstvODolva-oBn5jHASHkTq_5FB2crvvkimdV3i7UPm65RLz41MLUhYQgoArQfNysTUSZMjPE4PvEgrvofkViJcwCQT3TaXZZ7gbUULGOMlRUs40yybvil1uE-kD/s1920/b051b30b-eadd-48a2-a004-30c964621b69.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="1920" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf4hJxkC5ZoM5cd34CoU32wSDRjbnTgrtboeEd1FgQPfOS8btOw2ntGonskrPFK9JlCstvODolva-oBn5jHASHkTq_5FB2crvvkimdV3i7UPm65RLz41MLUhYQgoArQfNysTUSZMjPE4PvEgrvofkViJcwCQT3TaXZZ7gbUULGOMlRUs40yybvil1uE-kD/s320/b051b30b-eadd-48a2-a004-30c964621b69.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: times;">US Army Paratrooper, Operation Market Garden, 1944<b> <o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: times;">A paratrooper had much more kit than any other soldier, because they were being dropped behind the lines, where they had to survive for longer. ‘You’d get a whole bag strapped to your legs… full of stuff to carry you through a few days.’ The kit here straddles the old and the new: a wooden rifle, but also knuckledusters and grenades. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUucPD8JIyWCstQOa_XhyphenhyphenTPikzCWBs17dU7G_4JtH2gMvHGidMiRCKwOJ1Xxih4cNkWbJqmrhUhMkxi3cONJXuOFCIk4q-KiGEPuzzHjy0NqcZs228p8f1CbRB34wnOh5e9FiFy-2ngUanf08QGl1XLvtUPkMyNeZ4jLdTvRjTd3p_cpmQfz2oSXaCGSbV/s1920/daaf5e35-6026-4bb1-a200-9d7422678615-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="1920" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUucPD8JIyWCstQOa_XhyphenhyphenTPikzCWBs17dU7G_4JtH2gMvHGidMiRCKwOJ1Xxih4cNkWbJqmrhUhMkxi3cONJXuOFCIk4q-KiGEPuzzHjy0NqcZs228p8f1CbRB34wnOh5e9FiFy-2ngUanf08QGl1XLvtUPkMyNeZ4jLdTvRjTd3p_cpmQfz2oSXaCGSbV/s320/daaf5e35-6026-4bb1-a200-9d7422678615-1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: times;">Close Support Sapper, Royal Engineers, Helmand Province, 2014<b> <o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: times;">No reproduction material here: this is genuine British Army kit. The metal detector would have been used for minesweeping; there are also explosives. Sandals were issued kit; soldiers might have needed to run for cover even when they were showering. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHns8th7Iv98VEiVG0OpgFQge0g5tBEQ4dIviwTF9d6WzB3ZdojOuz7u5SqnNDd-vERlfY_akjkM3b-mHCsnGy2Rl7PkmfceTmCZYVpMmhh1G2Zssf8IrPxIeHXw6NWPjGkZjsUlFzVOLvbQsfDcflC6gj-nZgc1Z-LVpi-JbykVkgBaRU8qD5U8cbvwGd/s1920/fc415833-7dc8-4d3e-87a4-a71f2f1d6acb.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="1920" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHns8th7Iv98VEiVG0OpgFQge0g5tBEQ4dIviwTF9d6WzB3ZdojOuz7u5SqnNDd-vERlfY_akjkM3b-mHCsnGy2Rl7PkmfceTmCZYVpMmhh1G2Zssf8IrPxIeHXw6NWPjGkZjsUlFzVOLvbQsfDcflC6gj-nZgc1Z-LVpi-JbykVkgBaRU8qD5U8cbvwGd/s320/fc415833-7dc8-4d3e-87a4-a71f2f1d6acb.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: times;">US Marine Machine Gunner, Battle of Hue City, 1968<b> <o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: times;">Weaponry had started to develop by the Vietnam War, with rapid firing weapons like this automatic machine gun. Atkinson adds: ‘I like the camera, because it seems that Vietnam was the first war where you could see it – it was the war of the photojournalist.” <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwA44XmycDKg_VjaTWY5eqx1qh6GAeXnmPpFb7mXD5e8ghDRw8xb59qcp_arfzhgX3dhGKltNc8TNMdg5Bb248jwB762KID2uosH4gS7omf8E8x64FdaxGQknGRVInMe9Cnff9SuBdzkbVN-PyBS9oXutTekO_WUijCknL8WCq6Y7eiv5qx9PcackknYF2/s1920/c9175f03-fbf4-4827-94f0-3eeb4fee4c0d.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="1920" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwA44XmycDKg_VjaTWY5eqx1qh6GAeXnmPpFb7mXD5e8ghDRw8xb59qcp_arfzhgX3dhGKltNc8TNMdg5Bb248jwB762KID2uosH4gS7omf8E8x64FdaxGQknGRVInMe9Cnff9SuBdzkbVN-PyBS9oXutTekO_WUijCknL8WCq6Y7eiv5qx9PcackknYF2/s320/c9175f03-fbf4-4827-94f0-3eeb4fee4c0d.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: times;">Mladshi Unteroficier, 1st Russian Women’s Battalion of Death, Kerensky Offensive, 1917<b> <o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: times;">‘War is so associated with men in our minds – I find it really moving [to see a woman’s kit]’, says Atkinson. This Russian woman’s uniform, however, is virtually identical to what her male counterpart would have received. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />Arnhemjimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01794722964883335445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2956713848009971988.post-29529065473889120682023-09-06T12:01:00.026-07:002023-11-13T10:07:28.347-08:00Boldest of the Bold, Bravest of the Brave, British Special Air Service Regiment<div class="separator"><span style="font-size: medium;">It has been recently more and more of a challenge to develop topics for articles consistent with the overall theme of the blog. The following may be stretching, but hopefully will prove interesting.</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">To try a select the most famous and brave military persons in recent history is inherently an arbitrary, very difficult, and controversial task. However, most military historians would agree that the British Special Air Service Regiment would rank very near the top for candidates.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Within its ranks there are three soldiers who certainly deserve consideration as the most famous and courageous in modern times. Rather than rank the individuals, they will be listed in chronological order.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Lieut-Colonel Robert Blair ‘Paddy’ Mayne, DSO w/4 bars<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFZuQAW8fE0eCw5aJId8hAhWAdfRaXjlKvwOxfeo3tYfu8ts9cFSVSGUWWHgeHwwv4VBRsnOa0WNbr3DXo-FSVtRzWHQAx9TlG67eiBld0HV5O9SbN02Vc7J9d8EfwsJemBKW8t1MShv05z1O1OCJCkX-IegEH2ZBF7rAFVec1nQzPL8a-xGApVG-9XU9G/s1740/Robert-Blair-Paddy-Mayne.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1308" data-original-width="1740" height="301" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFZuQAW8fE0eCw5aJId8hAhWAdfRaXjlKvwOxfeo3tYfu8ts9cFSVSGUWWHgeHwwv4VBRsnOa0WNbr3DXo-FSVtRzWHQAx9TlG67eiBld0HV5O9SbN02Vc7J9d8EfwsJemBKW8t1MShv05z1O1OCJCkX-IegEH2ZBF7rAFVec1nQzPL8a-xGApVG-9XU9G/w399-h301/Robert-Blair-Paddy-Mayne.jpg" width="399" /></span></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkprEQE2YmYenFn_AHMKctB375GHmPBSKN0SJL4_prBmlqLgP3A28Ced3bKHm3Xd7JT61JMrpKqtJXJjzZnN-9WVSYglh1Vu0pHxzKHd4fOGJCe4iXxr168Pw3hUlQGJSDTagWAN9Q52v6kl6lpODt2UtBJwZfecFS8KhcoffcT7diBT-UQN-aIfKenN31/s764/main-qimg-baa91cd1d8ea12f1b7da592fd8e34a55-lq.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="764" data-original-width="602" height="429" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkprEQE2YmYenFn_AHMKctB375GHmPBSKN0SJL4_prBmlqLgP3A28Ced3bKHm3Xd7JT61JMrpKqtJXJjzZnN-9WVSYglh1Vu0pHxzKHd4fOGJCe4iXxr168Pw3hUlQGJSDTagWAN9Q52v6kl6lpODt2UtBJwZfecFS8KhcoffcT7diBT-UQN-aIfKenN31/w338-h429/main-qimg-baa91cd1d8ea12f1b7da592fd8e34a55-lq.jpg" width="338" /></span></a></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRkw2gZ7WNOeKIpqJJzgyzJJyhGThsdB5zUW1rtYbfYtNZT-BsQZvcpYEnNbIvcKzCRdSjN57BSa1EtkEGGkjFhHp98DW4I-Hb0WJFCNNIMyxaQk6HK4hraqe77-Kw0-NQYjPvYDOIwrJfw4P5MsnTYFHYXn3uOiyNl6_97jg7U_WZVtEDJ_BitIhJ9ty0/s751/2484339_orig.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="380" data-original-width="751" height="162" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRkw2gZ7WNOeKIpqJJzgyzJJyhGThsdB5zUW1rtYbfYtNZT-BsQZvcpYEnNbIvcKzCRdSjN57BSa1EtkEGGkjFhHp98DW4I-Hb0WJFCNNIMyxaQk6HK4hraqe77-Kw0-NQYjPvYDOIwrJfw4P5MsnTYFHYXn3uOiyNl6_97jg7U_WZVtEDJ_BitIhJ9ty0/s320/2484339_orig.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;">The Irish Lion. Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Blair 'Paddy' Mayne, DSO w/4bars. Lieutenant-Colonel 'Paddy' Mayne is a legendary figure in the history of the Special Forces. A celebrated sportsman with a turbulent character, he played a vital role in the early successes of the Special Air Service (SAS), becoming one of its most important commanders., capped for Ireland and the British & Irish Lions at rugby union, lawyer, amateur boxer and a founding member of the Special Air Service. For his action in Germany, Mayne was recommended for the Victoria Cross, the highest military award for gallantry. This was later downgraded to his fourth Distinguished Service Order. should have had the VC, but he beat up too many officers over the years. The powers that be, didn't want anyone emulating him. He was also decorated by France the Legion of Merit. </span><span style="font-family: times;">In North Africa Paddy Mayne personally destroyed 100 German aircraft (confirmed, all on the ground). Here are his medals. One of only seven men in history to win the DSO four times.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Believe it or not there is a connection between "Paddy" Mayne and one of the predominant themes of this blog. One of the early themes of the second generation of King and Country toy soldiers/military miniatures was the WWII British Eighth Army and Special Air Service Regiment. Obviously included in the series was the founder Lieut-Colonel David Sterling, and the following portrait figure of "Paddy".</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgE_LHiAg-nQ6cf5d4fjeOcmu3tl6Js_9iHnd6BMi5iVjK7LkUo3F4uWx47vu96RCDanrZFif6HJjHQUyQn-hhIlmQ7B6SSYw6WGaAJ7MsKX7jSJC56vWfUQIgZmUq2Tf-Hc2aEXlV3_ct8K2BcA8pcSe1P6KalFQ4wq89AUZpINplsO4zfQ7HyRj8XPZOH/s900/EA017(L)_900_676_1185296754.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="676" data-original-width="900" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgE_LHiAg-nQ6cf5d4fjeOcmu3tl6Js_9iHnd6BMi5iVjK7LkUo3F4uWx47vu96RCDanrZFif6HJjHQUyQn-hhIlmQ7B6SSYw6WGaAJ7MsKX7jSJC56vWfUQIgZmUq2Tf-Hc2aEXlV3_ct8K2BcA8pcSe1P6KalFQ4wq89AUZpINplsO4zfQ7HyRj8XPZOH/s320/EA017(L)_900_676_1185296754.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="text-align: center;"> </span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/r7RVdbrGBWo" width="320" youtube-src-id="r7RVdbrGBWo"></iframe></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Sergeant Talaiasi Labalaba, BEM, MID</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"> <b><o:p></o:p></b><b>Battle of Mirbat,</b><i> Oman 1972.</i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkUJ94joPwLlt3vOeBLT8UygnjazklG3FLgiQh2q2NSw8ZFYK6UMki4pfu6038k46GbjSxTl0waaSKsr6lXrxashdI97YtcgMNFDjO6vp5xhrlajog4x28e4tGAn10yivD14qBtOVvS4skJ115ots4ZQw5glozscHk-DJcfL5qh6N7TtXJaIaYx0jyU3-I/s1497/e129b37d9f1e7225086d7209ecbf4096.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1497" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkUJ94joPwLlt3vOeBLT8UygnjazklG3FLgiQh2q2NSw8ZFYK6UMki4pfu6038k46GbjSxTl0waaSKsr6lXrxashdI97YtcgMNFDjO6vp5xhrlajog4x28e4tGAn10yivD14qBtOVvS4skJ115ots4ZQw5glozscHk-DJcfL5qh6N7TtXJaIaYx0jyU3-I/s320/e129b37d9f1e7225086d7209ecbf4096.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;">Painting of wounded SAS Sgt Talaiasi Labalaba, operating the 25 pounder</div></span><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">artillery piece during the battle, with trooper Takavesi covering him.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;">At the height of the communist rebellion in Oman, the British sent a detachment of 9 SAS soldiers to the key port of Mirbat, with orders to train local soldiers and defend the region. The SAS were based at the British Army Training Team (BATT) House, a large fortified building inside an open compound bordered by barbed wire, with a single 25 pounder artillery piece in a dug in position near the BATT building and a forward defensive picket a mile from the BATT building, manned by local Oman army guards.</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"></p><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZEdhyCCiL0x6QFdXrJxfFKb9YEtW5lJeyvPA-GXHZ71fvqeIYp3x73-JksXvWvFopxjrNObYxmgghG6xBRiqDUbfaGhRCp2NMoBeH0S4LP8EpWaeagpIg6t8MFMOXU23Q4yMO3rkyoh0a0aFE5GP45K18GuV3l3-T49wlfscFdZZJ3Y86RbMB5QZihJLc/s2816/Mirbat14.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2112" data-original-width="2816" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZEdhyCCiL0x6QFdXrJxfFKb9YEtW5lJeyvPA-GXHZ71fvqeIYp3x73-JksXvWvFopxjrNObYxmgghG6xBRiqDUbfaGhRCp2NMoBeH0S4LP8EpWaeagpIg6t8MFMOXU23Q4yMO3rkyoh0a0aFE5GP45K18GuV3l3-T49wlfscFdZZJ3Y86RbMB5QZihJLc/s320/Mirbat14.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Mirbat Fort, British army training team HQ.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">At 05:00 on 19 July, 1972, a large force of 300 communist insurgents attacked and swiftly overwhelmed the forward picket position at Mirbat and killed the Omani Gendarmerie guards. At this point, SAS Captain Mike Kealy, became aware that something was afoot and ordered his small team of SAS soldiers to take up defensive positions, manning the roof and entrances, before radioing the British for reinforcements.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The British training staff at Mirbat included 9 SAS soldiers, most of them veterans, a handful of British intelligence officers and a small complement of Oman Gendarmerie.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">As the sun came up, Captain Kealy could see hundreds of guerrilla insurgents surrounding the SAS position and clambering over the barbed wire fencing. Unfortunately the 9 SAS soldiers only had rifles which didn't have the range to engage until the enemy got closer, their one browning machine gun opened fire.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">SAS Sergeant Talaiasi Labalaba volunteered to man the 25 pounder gun outside, Laba ran 200 hundred meters from the SAS position to the artillery piece and jumped into the gun pit, taking cover behind sandbags. Sgt Labalaba wasted no time loading and operating the large gun, which normally required 6 men to operate. He began laying down devastating shells onto the waves of communists charging towards the SAS position, all the while the remaining 8 SAS soldiers provided a cross fire from the fortified building and roof, accurately laying down supporting fire with their SLR rifles and one heavy machine gun.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgldyg-xZ50RPVVl_bX-LNqaG7xyCsFLBtRIUR-cOSuSJTU7RZ-hZYofuOVJwmfpBHONTgx8KqAFA_R0zDvn-XGBLcp02scEg5-VrpL1jmdiazFT2usOzwsRp4-ldE1d1DbL6HKbarem7Udh8ym_ShBkitlPK-TmjCuPH3jydZuiv2LZXT8uLDmWtTaDcIo/s570/Draw-mirbat-half.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="570" data-original-width="450" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgldyg-xZ50RPVVl_bX-LNqaG7xyCsFLBtRIUR-cOSuSJTU7RZ-hZYofuOVJwmfpBHONTgx8KqAFA_R0zDvn-XGBLcp02scEg5-VrpL1jmdiazFT2usOzwsRp4-ldE1d1DbL6HKbarem7Udh8ym_ShBkitlPK-TmjCuPH3jydZuiv2LZXT8uLDmWtTaDcIo/s320/Draw-mirbat-half.jpg" width="253" /></span></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">After an hour of continually reloading and firing the gun alone, Sgt Labalaba radioed Captain Kealy to report that he had been hit by a bullet and needed help. Mike Kealy wasted no time and sent Labalaba’s fellow countryman, trooper Takavesi to aid him, when Takavesi reached his friend he found Labalaba bleeding profusely from a head wound, but still operating the gun at almost a round a minute. Trooper Takavesi who had medical training, quickly bandaged Labalaba, before taking up a position and covered Labalaba, accurately tapping away with his SLR rifle at the wave of insurgents rapidly approaching.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">"So we set about taking them out. The group in front were hit. The line faltered and collapsed. Wave upon wave of them were advancing, grabbing at the barbed perimeter wire with bare hands, while Labalaba was blasting them into oblivion." - Trooper Takavesi.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">For two and half hours, Sergeant Labalaba held his position outside the Mirbat building, against hundreds of guerrilla insurgents, with his Fijian countryman and friend he fought, as dried blood and sweat matted his hair and beard, staining his clothing, he continued to battle.<o:p></o:p></span></p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Eventually the main gun ran out of shells and Labalaba picked up his SLR rifle, throwing a few mags to his friend Takavesi, they both defended their little fort made of sandbags, desperately firing at point blank range as waves of communists closed on them<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">When Labalaba began to run low on ammo, he attempted to recover a nearby weapon, he asked Takavesi to cover him and quickly made his move… Takavesi later said that while he was covering Laba, who bravely tried to recover the weapon, they glanced at each other, when their eyes met, it was like Laba knew something was about to happen, then suddenly Laba was shot in the neck and dropped dead.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Sadly<i> r</i>einforcements and air support arrived not long after Labalaba died, and with that, the remaining insurgents fled. From the bodies recovered, it's estimated that over half the enemy number died, with more being wounded and taken from the battlefield. Most were killed by SAS Sergeant Talaiasi Labalaba.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">When 9 SAS soldiers defeated 300 insurgents and secured the independence of Oman. 3 SAS operators died at Mirbat, including Sgt Labalaba.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">"Labalaba was a bear of a man. When he was fully tooled up, he was the original Rambo. They wanted to give him the Victoria Cross, but because the war was a secret in 1972 no one received any major decorations." - SAS Trooper Takavesi.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqHBWEEyAYvQF5GWMwyPzpfdwWogR6IlCdCIR6lo8cahU3aeEbjmNfJjANMuQ8xsi1xJeWnBfMgR7hCUfJEstkFftgHaXFjbZC7Up6a5r-s1Vi6cKFJ2O1Xppp0HRW9imqOUApkJg8hVQPxZoNzSma2Lu6Go1HHj4qLCfuYCcrKZg1raKQwTjZRMk8jLxP/s600/memorial-laba-1.webp" style="font-family: times; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="393" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqHBWEEyAYvQF5GWMwyPzpfdwWogR6IlCdCIR6lo8cahU3aeEbjmNfJjANMuQ8xsi1xJeWnBfMgR7hCUfJEstkFftgHaXFjbZC7Up6a5r-s1Vi6cKFJ2O1Xppp0HRW9imqOUApkJg8hVQPxZoNzSma2Lu6Go1HHj4qLCfuYCcrKZg1raKQwTjZRMk8jLxP/s320/memorial-laba-1.webp" width="210" /></span></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The statue of SAS Sergeant Talaiasi Labalaba,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">outside Fijian Airport</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Staff Sergeant John Thomas “Mac” McAleese, MM<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">McAleese is one of the most famous and decorated British Army soldiers of all time. He successfully led the team of SAS operatives known as “blue team” into the famous Iranian Embassy siege, called Operation “Nimrod”. This was the operation that made the SAS the household name they are today. He was even spotted live on television on the first-floor balcony of the embassy, at the moment he places an explosive charge on the door. It was moments before they stormed the building on 05 May 1980. Later on in his career he served in the Falkland War in 1982, and received the Military Medal in 1988. He received most of his fame when he told his life story on the TV Show “SAS: Are you tough enough?”. He was well known for his trademark moustache and was later recognized as the legend of the World’s special forces. The show was aired on British television and gained much success.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwLnVxsAcMM2ybhkIiNKLijT9Rq2vvlHGGr71B2ci6I2OtH07dLEFr-PMk1hjzsYK3lvr610ppXH_G3LbdtdgLObFwGjfdSyCWZup6SoYLibRKRrjjpY69vctQd7l4XU5ob5GGf8T6TaXG4qxZPScYmHbRQifpSYAh7JLQcBFOm75v84vZb_0XMBCndRDY/s1908/10705720-0-image-a-10_1551975357460.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1146" data-original-width="1908" height="192" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwLnVxsAcMM2ybhkIiNKLijT9Rq2vvlHGGr71B2ci6I2OtH07dLEFr-PMk1hjzsYK3lvr610ppXH_G3LbdtdgLObFwGjfdSyCWZup6SoYLibRKRrjjpY69vctQd7l4XU5ob5GGf8T6TaXG4qxZPScYmHbRQifpSYAh7JLQcBFOm75v84vZb_0XMBCndRDY/s320/10705720-0-image-a-10_1551975357460.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; 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Hopefully a future expansion may include </span><span style="font-family: times;">2 and 3 Battalions The Parachute Regiment,</span><span style="font-family: times;"> </span><span style="font-family: times;">and representation of all other units of the British Military Forces engaged in action in the Falkland Islands, April-June 1982.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;">Included are a couple of images of the desolate, and hostile environment of the theatre of operations. Miserable, an understatement!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;">The 1:30 scale armoured vehicle depicted is one of four Scorpion FV101(76mm L23A1) which were deployed. They were accompanied by four Scimitar FV107 (30mm L21 Rarden gun), and additional support vehicles. The figures and the newly released light tank (the actual tank weighed </span><span style="font-family: times;">only 8 tons; great speed and trafficability) are </span><span style="font-family: times;">produced by Andy Neilson's King and Country Military Miniatures.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;">In the background of some of the shots can be seen the miniature full band of The Parachute Regiment marching out of their Aldershot depot playing "Don't Cry for Me Argentina". This actually occurred (have the tape). An identical set was presented to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Have copy of her thank you note in 1984 to D.J. 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margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">The secret battle of the Falklands War you have never heard about; the Real First Battle of Stanley (Argentine Invasion of the Falkland Islands).</span></p></span></div><p><span style="font-family: times;">By Gayle_Herald | Posted: June 14, 2017</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;">By Ricky D Phillips</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;">This is the untold story of a 'secret battle' fought during the Falklands war, according to one military historian.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;">Author Ricky D Phillips says the Battle of Stanley has been ignored in the history books and is calling for the men who fought in it to receive the recognition they deserve.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;">On the 35th anniversary of the conflict, he shares his account of what really happened.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;">On April 2, 1982, 60 Royal Marines of the Naval Party 8901 who constituted the entire garrison for the Falkland Islands were overwhelmed by 80 Argentine Commandos.</span><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;">They put up a mere token defence, fired off a few shots, killed one Argentine and wounded a few more and then surrendered.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;">That's the story you are supposed to know. It is the story that we – the British public – were all told.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;">It is the story you will find in every book and on every website which deals with the Falklands War. It is a story which has stood for 35 years as 'established history'.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;">That story, might I say, is rubbish.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;">For the first time in 35 years, the accounts of the people involved from all three sides; British, Argentine and the Falkland Islanders themselves have been taken, analysed and formed into a new history with fresh interviews and in-depth research into each and every claim or quote, creating a panoramic view of a battle which we’re all told never happened.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;">The battle of Stanley - for it was a battle, not a mere skirmish – was an action on a par with Rorke's Drift, a battle which, had the world known the truth, might have cost the UK the entire Falklands War.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;">At 06.05 the battle opened with 84 Argentine Commandos attacking the British position from the rear.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;">The night sky lit up as Moody Brook barracks, the Marines' accommodation block outside of town was torn apart by gunfire and grenades only for the Argentine Commandos to find their bunks empty and the Royal Marines already deployed.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;">Moments later, the first Argentine casualties came when a landing craft with 40 men on board sailed through the narrow strip of water into Stanley Harbour and was destroyed, overturned and sunk with an anti-tank rocket, the tightly-packed men being plunged into the freezing, sucking waters from which none came up again.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;">At Government House, the seat of government in the islands, a special snatch-squad raced into the grounds to seize the governor Rex Hunt, only to run into four waiting Marines who gunned down three of them and left them lying in the garden.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;">Now others came, rushing in four-abreast and making easy targets for the Royal Marines who, crouched behind a stone wall, picked them off at will.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;">"The words 'turkey shoot' flashed through my mind," said one of the defenders, Jim Fairfield.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;">"We took targets of opportunity. There were a lot of targets and I'm a good shot."</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;">At first light, 21 amphibious armoured personnel carriers, each bearing 28 men, landed on the beach around Stanley airport and raced inland like an iron fist ready to smash the pinned-down Royal Marines, but waiting on the outskirts of town was an anti-tank section who fired rockets at the lead vehicle as it came towards them.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;">Turning to its right, off the road, the giant 'Amtrac' APC seemed to become stuck on the bank of the road as the Royal Marines reloaded and determined to take it out; "I said 'Let's get it!' and I fired and hit it," remembered Royal Marine Stephen 'George' Brown.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;">"I know exactly where I hit it… there was a flash and then the smoke started to come out as she brewed up."</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;">Marines Reynolds and Gibbs also fired at it with their own weapons from out on the flank.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;">Gibbs said: "I definitely hit it about three-quarters of the way up and along. It rocked on its suspension and blew a huge great cloud of black smoke and then died."</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;">Coming to its aid were several more Amtracs, the lead one of which was peppered with machine gun fire, taking out the gunner's scopes as the Royal Marines deployed smoke and pulled out just as the Argentine artillery zeroed their position.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;">Nobody emerged from the destroyed Amtrac.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;">Back at Government House, the Argentine forces had pulled back to a nearby rocky ridge, waiting for their armour to come to their aid as the Marines now engaged them in a sniping contest, with Geordie Gill, the Royal Marines' top sniper taking out a section leader, a rifleman and a machine gunner as Corporal Terry Pares beside him took out a radio operator.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;">Marine Graham Evans said: "At one stage we were in the 11-5 club.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;">"Eleven wounded and five killed as we were hitting them hard up there on the ridge."</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;">Meanwhile, in the streets of Stanley, several sections of Marines fought running battles with the Argentines, vaulting fences, ploughing through gardens and taking down the enemy who seemed to pop up from everywhere.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;">One Stanley resident, who later found Argentine bodies in her garden, said: "They were fighting like lions to protect us.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;">"I never knew our Marines could fight so hard."</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;">Finally, with Argentine forces surrounding them by the thousand, the Falklands' governor Rex Hunt agreed to talk to the Argentine commander, Admiral Busser.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;">He knew that his Marines could – and would - fight to the finish, and so he had to make a decision.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;">Looking at his officers, Majors Norman and Nott he ordered them to "Tell your men to stop fighting and to lay down their arms".</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;">Later, in an interview with the Plymouth Herald, he said: "I didn't use the word 'surrender' because I knew it wasn't in the Marines' vocabulary."</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;">It had been an epic defence but sadly an inconvenient one.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;">With the UK needing to look like it was taken by surprise and stomped over by a fascist junta – a necessary story if the world was to be on our side – the men and their story were denied.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;">Five military medals and 12 mentions in dispatches were recommended and even approved, none were granted.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;">When the people of the Falklands – knowing the true story – proposed to grant their own medal, the UK government silenced them.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;">Hoping that a bare minimum report of five enemy killed, 17 wounded, three prisoners and of course the destroyed Amtrac (only what they physically saw and could confirm) would at least be believed, Major Norman put this in his official report.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;">It was never published.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;">(Editorial Note: Roy, it sounds a lot more consistent with the defense Lt Keith Mills and his detachment of 22 Royal Marines put up on South Georgia Island. Also consider that the lead attack elements were comprised of the “elite” Buzo Tactico and 2nd Marine Infantry Battalion.)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;">(An additional significant Editorial Note: At the most recent annual London Toy Soldier Show ( December 2023) Andy Neilson of King and Country Toy Soldiers, displayed a preview of 8 new Falkland British Parachute Regiment figures. 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See; <a href="http://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2017/08/selected-uniforms-of-gordon-highlanders.html" style="color: #954f72;">http://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2017/08/selected-uniforms-of-gordon-highlanders.html</a> .</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span>Thought that this grouping would provide potential additional reference material to military historians and military miniature collectors of that period of history. These specifically focus on the uniforms of the Gordon Highlanders, and their accoutrements, during the colorful Napoleonic and Crimean periods.</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEid_ukwzrhke_v6RL_TuaL-x1B-HKuFVsmLFtAIU7xtS68-eyD6tRUjCjeDhnrHQlZZB-fgkR54_Xw5Lq7OB7A0ivu4-zwpqgZz6OEPNMOOwWx8vWi3VfdRnLVjD42Azxs3Mbb0qdkgmJqgAgBUvTnf0bbfK4tYDSz-z-YKfUw41YsnJwDdF2BEEocEHiRl/s864/92nd.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="864" data-original-width="570" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEid_ukwzrhke_v6RL_TuaL-x1B-HKuFVsmLFtAIU7xtS68-eyD6tRUjCjeDhnrHQlZZB-fgkR54_Xw5Lq7OB7A0ivu4-zwpqgZz6OEPNMOOwWx8vWi3VfdRnLVjD42Azxs3Mbb0qdkgmJqgAgBUvTnf0bbfK4tYDSz-z-YKfUw41YsnJwDdF2BEEocEHiRl/s320/92nd.jpg" width="211" /></a></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiNmMXXizTqCo5TT4cy1EbRs_E81cnV8khgvFREP7Zoyv3CpWWmgYvq1FJORDhQy8fPz7cYS9DJOejGb1lQb9IV6lkYcBJFp2zvYJs6zd2An1OX2-849clRhjnOnPpfM-NviNPqqMWG24RGu_qzeaIrOl71HxN59z2D5T7MbUA_MS2Jeldv1cD1tgdkQ/s800/Aerial_view_of_the_bridge_over_the_Neder_Rijn,_Arnhem-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="597" data-original-width="800" height="239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiNmMXXizTqCo5TT4cy1EbRs_E81cnV8khgvFREP7Zoyv3CpWWmgYvq1FJORDhQy8fPz7cYS9DJOejGb1lQb9IV6lkYcBJFp2zvYJs6zd2An1OX2-849clRhjnOnPpfM-NviNPqqMWG24RGu_qzeaIrOl71HxN59z2D5T7MbUA_MS2Jeldv1cD1tgdkQ/s320/Aerial_view_of_the_bridge_over_the_Neder_Rijn,_Arnhem-1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: times;">The 12</span><sup style="font-family: times;">th</sup><span style="font-family: times;"> Anniversary (28 March) of the Arnhem Jim
blog is rapidly approaching. When my oldest son, a retired Commander, and Naval
Aviator (helicopters; now with the Indiana National Guard) suggested the idea,
I had no idea that a blog focused on such extremely esoteric subject matter
would become, and stay, as popular as it has. In addition to keeping me
mentally stimulated, it has been both challenging and a tremendous educational
experience to have received, researched, and responded to some very unique
comments. My most sincere thanks to everyone for your interest and loyal readership.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: times;">The blog as of this date (19 March 2023) has received
974,875 hits from 204 countries. My goal is to reach a million hits. Given its main
content the reader should not be surprised that the United States, United
Kingdom, and the Netherlands, predominate in readership. Some of the more unique
viewers with multiple hits have come from such countries/territories as
Andorra, Aland Islands, Faroe Islands, Burkina Faso, Djibouti, <span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Liechtenstei</span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">n, Monaco, </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">San Marino, Mayotte, Seychelles, to
name but a few. There are currently 102 registered followers of the blog.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: times; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: times; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">A relatively recent phenomenon has been to see an initial hit from
a single reader with an immediate follow-up series of queries of interest of
25-30 hits. Such is the Internet.</span><span style="font-family: times;"> There is also a group of extremely
loyal readers who have chosen to remain anonymous for well over a decade. They
have come from the Central District of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Hong Kong, Cape Town, South Africa, Huizen, Arnhem, and Oosterbeek, the
Netherlands (all expected), and Mountain View, CA, Redmond, WA, Phoenix, AZ, to
name a few.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: times;">I was curious to try and learn what subjects and/or specific
articles have been the most popular. The one method that came to mind was to
scan the entire list of blog articles and find the ones with the highest number
of accumulated comments. This is not necessarily the most accurate, as there
are orders of battle, lists of toy soldiers, referrals from other forums, that
are apparently also of reasonably high interest. However, here is a selection of
some that have seen significant popularity based on number of comments. They are listed
chronologically by URL for the convenience of the reader who might want to scan
some of them:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: times; mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2011/04/wwii-cutting-edge-night-vision.html" style="font-family: times;">http://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2011/04/wwii-cutting-edge-night-vision.html</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2011/06/british-cap-badges-additional-guidance.html" style="font-family: times;">http://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2011/06/british-cap-badges-additional-guidance.html</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2011/08/wwi-royal-naval-division-cap-badges_28.html" style="font-family: times;">http://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2011/08/wwi-royal-naval-division-cap-badges_28.html</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: times; mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="http://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2011/09/wwii-parachute-regiment-cap-badge.html">http://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2011/09/wwii-parachute-regiment-cap-badge.html</a><span class="MsoHyperlink"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="http://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2011/09/general-aircraft-gal-4950-hamilcar.html">http://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2011/09/general-aircraft-gal-4950-hamilcar.html</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="http://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2011/10/other-webley-limited-standard-semi.html">http://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2011/10/other-webley-limited-standard-semi.html</a><span class="MsoHyperlink"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2012/01/the-reincarnation-of-calcutta-light.html" style="font-family: times;">http://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2012/01/the-reincarnation-of-calcutta-light.html</a>
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="http://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2012/01/war-canoes-of-world-war-ii-cockleshell.html">http://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2012/01/war-canoes-of-world-war-ii-cockleshell.html</a><span class="MsoHyperlink"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="http://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2012/05/collection-of-toy-soldiersmilitary.html">http://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2012/05/collection-of-toy-soldiersmilitary.html</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="http://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2012/06/hamilcar-gliders-at-operation-market.html">http://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2012/06/hamilcar-gliders-at-operation-market.html</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2012/09/british-1st-airborne-division-vehicle.html" style="font-family: times;">http://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2012/09/british-1st-airborne-division-vehicle.html</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="http://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2012/11/the-airborne-jeeps-of-1st-airborne.html">http://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2012/11/the-airborne-jeeps-of-1st-airborne.html</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="http://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-17-pounder-anti-tank-guns-at.html">http://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-17-pounder-anti-tank-guns-at.html</a><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: times;"><a href="http://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2015/07/a-bridge-too-far-movie-casting-mirrors.html">http://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2015/07/a-bridge-too-far-movie-casting-mirrors.html</a><span class="MsoHyperlink"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="http://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2016/12/the-6-pounder-anti-tank-guns-at_10.html">http://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2016/12/the-6-pounder-anti-tank-guns-at_10.html</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2017/02/a-field-guide-to-regimental-ties.html" style="font-family: times;">http://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2017/02/a-field-guide-to-regimental-ties.html</a>
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="http://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2017/07/detailed-list-of-arms-and-equipment-of.html">http://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2017/07/detailed-list-of-arms-and-equipment-of.html</a><span class="MsoHyperlink"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2019/06/greenwood-ball-connoisseur-military.html" style="font-family: times;">https://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2019/06/greenwood-ball-connoisseur-military.html</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="https://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2019/09/wireless-sets-of-1st-airborne-division.html">https://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2019/09/wireless-sets-of-1st-airborne-division.html</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2020/01/its-in-cards.html" style="font-family: times;">https://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2020/01/its-in-cards.html</a>
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="https://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2020/10/fox-morigi-or-moriarty-its-all-in-name.html">https://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2020/10/fox-morigi-or-moriarty-its-all-in-name.html</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2021/10/an-original-unissued-german-wwii_28.html" style="font-family: times;">https://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2021/10/an-original-unissued-german-wwii_28.html</a>
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: times;">I am most sincerely appreciative of the 101 registered
followers of the blog as well as all the other readers over the decade plus
that the blog has been published. I fully intend to continue publication, and once
again solicit any and all reader recommendations for subjects of interest and/or
specific comments/questions.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjD-zxNnDZVIdB46DtZEX37U5rf6fGC5vJcvqajmRcJLG6sQfGk22YNwwbOe0Z1_ioENpYDHbKHjtylkBs4GH3Yu_dTvPpfFiND3SMmitsO_nyAyH7ka9IyPPaFW0mwcYEYv8CEfxG5Y9MzDElG9cmQviLBBPAhVD-_27-gAZP2n7kVnzDs3KUM-bVyMA/s3295/IMG_3696.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3295" data-original-width="1068" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjD-zxNnDZVIdB46DtZEX37U5rf6fGC5vJcvqajmRcJLG6sQfGk22YNwwbOe0Z1_ioENpYDHbKHjtylkBs4GH3Yu_dTvPpfFiND3SMmitsO_nyAyH7ka9IyPPaFW0mwcYEYv8CEfxG5Y9MzDElG9cmQviLBBPAhVD-_27-gAZP2n7kVnzDs3KUM-bVyMA/s320/IMG_3696.JPG" width="104" /></a></div><span style="font-family: times;"><div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div>Slàinte Mhòr! Slàinte! (Gaelic
for Great Good Health! Health!)</span><p></p>
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{page:WordSection1;}</style></p>Arnhemjimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01794722964883335445noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2956713848009971988.post-16532425681677497662023-02-05T12:16:00.035-08:002023-10-03T10:46:58.332-07:00Documenting the Origin and Early Evolution of British Airborne Forces Insignia<p><span style="font-family: times;"> Tcrown, a member of the British & Commonwealth Military Badge Forum, recently has provided his research on the origin and evolution of British Airborne Forces insignia, in the 1941 -1945 time period. He has encouraged conveying the information to collectors, historians, and all interested parties, with acknowledgement. In addition this blog author thought the information, augmented with added colored imagery of the insignia was worthy of republication. With full acknowledgement and gratitude to Tcrown. To the best of my knowledge all of the images presented herein are genuine and are discussed in detail in various other blog articles previously presented.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="clear: left; float: left; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><b>A Story of the British Parachute Distinguished Insignia</b><o:p></o:p></span><span style="clear: left; float: left; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="clear: left; float: left; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><b><br /></b></span></p><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">A few years back, I planned a bit of research on the various patches worn by the parachute battalions during WW2 </span><a href="https://www.britishbadgeforum.com/forums/showpost.php?p=405903&postcount=17" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">https://www.britishbadgeforum.com/fo...3&postcount=17</span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">After analyzing a lot of photos mainly from the IWM and Para Data collections, I tried to summarize and share my findings. I don’t pretend to provide an exact story of the evolution of the British Airborne Forces insignias but to offer my contribution to research on this topic. An abundant and very well documented literature exists already on British Airborne uniforms but somehow these books lack details about the chronology of the various patches. I’ve tried to fill the blanks with a special focus on the Parachute units.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />This first post will cover the 1940 to 1942 period up until the creation of the Parachute Regiment.<br /><br /><b><u>1- Initial Regulations in the British Army</u></b><br /><br />ACI 419 issued in May 1940 stated that Divisional Signs or badges will not be worn by British divisions during the war. This coincided with the introduction of Battle-Dress which was to provide an utilitarian uniform with no particular means to identify arms of service.<br />General Gort, Commander in Chief of the British Expeditionary Force at the time disapproved the decision and objected that Esprit de Corps, particularly in the Infantry would suffer if soldiers in Battle-Dress were not allowed to wear an emblem showing the regiment to which they belong.<br /><br />ACI 1118 published on 18 September 1940 finally approved certain distinguished marks. For the early parachute troops, this translated into the introduction and approval of a special badge for wear by qualified parachutists through ACI 1589 dated 28 December 1940. As for Regimental flashes or other formation signs, there were none for the only parachute unit at the time – the 11th SAS.</span><div><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDon2wkVHZxOtkUMUJNrMXRMXAUZPE3fhONWsAstqaskXb1o0eVf0TTdAzGYquhrAjbi9MD4NVBxRJPuLBzOGG7VsiUehYVBpkUJNK9gjSy4JXSKG7Mkks1cPm1D4GApYRwGo9nzndSpe0743mfB7vxdbjiQLPYRs6WXavg6ewOQXeiN2sccL7I9Ktsw/s800/11th%20SAS%20Feb%2024%201941.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="599" data-original-width="800" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDon2wkVHZxOtkUMUJNrMXRMXAUZPE3fhONWsAstqaskXb1o0eVf0TTdAzGYquhrAjbi9MD4NVBxRJPuLBzOGG7VsiUehYVBpkUJNK9gjSy4JXSKG7Mkks1cPm1D4GApYRwGo9nzndSpe0743mfB7vxdbjiQLPYRs6WXavg6ewOQXeiN2sccL7I9Ktsw/s320/11th%20SAS%20Feb%2024%201941.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Members of the 11st SAS photographed in Feb 1941<br />(source IWM)</span></i><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: start;">[/SIZE]</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><b><u><br /></u></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><b><u>2- Introduction of Additional Formation Badges</u></b><br /><br />ACI 2587 dated 27 December 1941 set out formation patches as well as arm-of-service strips, rank badge backing and regimental badges to be worn at the top of both sleeves of the Battle-Dress blouse.<br />The Army Air Corps had just been formed on 21 Dec 1941 with the intend of overseeing all airborne forces that were under (glider, parachute and air landing activities).<br /><br />Around the end of 1941, a group of airborne officers led by Gen “Boy” Browning formed the “Dungeon Party”, so named as they were located in the basement of GHQ Home Forces in Storeys Gate London, to create British airborne forces. Gen Browning was acutely aware that the then fledgling airborne forces needed a powerful, unifying symbol, taking advantage of the fact that formation patches had just been authorized to be worn on Battle-Dress. The myth of Bellerophon astride Pegasus was chosen as the symbol of airborne forces. The design of the now famous Pegasus flash was commissioned by General Browning to Major Edward Seago, a reputable artist.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNxq0gQyUE49YiMZukh5DiY0udgoefa2wIcyUfTgTxAoNDkAHARQKPZkyqkF0FrjMHQuOKQ0Ah23wu9xgSfkf72vxHKXJSsxBP2I16A-iFwW_OuMjVmc9oQq2aF6GUIJpFta4CPBWhhopAGuqlxjs1JXzOaZCYpvtJNeAF4vhqZWl2WDq32vxQuU4-qA/s800/Dungeon%20Party%20mid%201942.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="464" data-original-width="800" height="186" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNxq0gQyUE49YiMZukh5DiY0udgoefa2wIcyUfTgTxAoNDkAHARQKPZkyqkF0FrjMHQuOKQ0Ah23wu9xgSfkf72vxHKXJSsxBP2I16A-iFwW_OuMjVmc9oQq2aF6GUIJpFta4CPBWhhopAGuqlxjs1JXzOaZCYpvtJNeAF4vhqZWl2WDq32vxQuU4-qA/s320/Dungeon%20Party%20mid%201942.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;"><i>The “Dungeon Party” ca mid 1942. Lt Col JA Goshen</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;"><i> can be seen on the far right front row.</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;"><i> He was the G4 logistics staff officer under</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;"><i> Gen Browning (source ParaData)</i></span><span face="-webkit-standard"><br /></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">It is believed that the Airborne signs (both curved and strip) were designed at the same time as the Pegasus patch and started to be issued in the course of 1942.<o:p></o:p></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">An interesting photo taken immediately after the return of the raid party to Bruneval aboard Prins Albert, shows that both printed Pegasus and Airborne strip had already started to be issued in early 1942.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_o4gnc8NhISrnQYFyVJ-NCZLEF5tVaBo2YHDm3PuTYoL5mWx9j3Cjm5zP7Wi-O6NIwLrszsEwfQGlGcJwYcUzMIWKvjj8YXDPKxDkTbqI_Q0pP3QWB4U0tagnlvLFSB0iuaQduh_2yBkDF77WHjT5jZLhi0zFzZGx44WY7MmiOTLdrCAAx5r2r_Wmvg/s1152/John%20Frost%20and%20Lcl%20John%20Goshen%20aboard%20Prins%20Albert%20Portsmouth%2028%20fev%201942%20H%2017349-2.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1152" data-original-width="1152" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_o4gnc8NhISrnQYFyVJ-NCZLEF5tVaBo2YHDm3PuTYoL5mWx9j3Cjm5zP7Wi-O6NIwLrszsEwfQGlGcJwYcUzMIWKvjj8YXDPKxDkTbqI_Q0pP3QWB4U0tagnlvLFSB0iuaQduh_2yBkDF77WHjT5jZLhi0zFzZGx44WY7MmiOTLdrCAAx5r2r_Wmvg/s320/John%20Frost%20and%20Lcl%20John%20Goshen%20aboard%20Prins%20Albert%20Portsmouth%2028%20fev%201942%20H%2017349-2.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;"><i>Lt Col John Goshen, G4 of Airborne Forces Staff,</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;"><i> with Major Frost aboard Prins Albert</i></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> in Portsmouth on Feb 28th 1942 (source IWM)</span></span></i></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div></div><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline;">3 – The Use of Airborne Signs in the Early Days</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">So far, Airborne forces haven’t been formed into Regiments: Parachutes forces grouped in battalions and their members were still wearing the cap badge of their original regiments which didn’t provide a sense of unity. Having no regimental designation yet established, it is believed that the curved airborne sign was used as a shoulder title for providing a mean of identification on top of the parachute wings. This was also the case for the glider pilots until the creation of the Glider Pilot Regiment with effect from 24th Feb 1942. However, photos of members of the GPR exist indicating that the Airborne strip was worn in 1943 (source IWM H28694 & H28695). <br /><br />The situation was much different for the glider or airlanding troops as they had been transferred or converted into airborne forces by formed regiments with their own designation. They already had their shoulder titles, although unofficial. So, for these airborne troops who were not parachutists, the Airborne strip was introduced in early 1942 which was to be worn below the Pegasus patches. The Airborne strip would later be officially authorized by ACI 2816 on 31 Oct 1942.</span><div><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_j8kcwgcPn_kXF66679_quuU-SxO8BO8pxYK58B7WVIEj8E92bgcmYKWHZTMb8TVv0y2mwG63w_GKqZuiDtr5tYJYALuh5_diU6FtqXvq7YdBCxCrNgQBeZGgib6UfBWDT_d0cwSdUPiX0X2P7N5gpaBW3WFwlLCJfCeFGVZaAv8vXkySfJ7I4N4JiQ/s929/Airborne%20Patches%20Aug%201942%20H22753.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="929" data-original-width="864" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_j8kcwgcPn_kXF66679_quuU-SxO8BO8pxYK58B7WVIEj8E92bgcmYKWHZTMb8TVv0y2mwG63w_GKqZuiDtr5tYJYALuh5_diU6FtqXvq7YdBCxCrNgQBeZGgib6UfBWDT_d0cwSdUPiX0X2P7N5gpaBW3WFwlLCJfCeFGVZaAv8vXkySfJ7I4N4JiQ/s320/Airborne%20Patches%20Aug%201942%20H22753.JPG" width="298" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Printed Airborne shoulder titles issued to Parachute<br /> forces and to Glider pilots in 1942 (source IWM)</span></i><span face="-webkit-standard" style="text-align: start;"></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />It seems that Airborne shoulder titles had been issued at the same period to qualified and active parachutists as we can see in the following photographs. ACI 2587 of 27 Dec 1941 didn’t authorize regimental designations except for the Household Cavalry and the Foot Guards. The designation ‘Airborne’ was added to the exceptions for the members of the Airborne troops.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDKXjTCsjCYq1uHDhT2DLbUOaJI9YyaM0g4qnodCqXjhentnPlC6Q0JsMQVEi6JAZ6CMiGX3NLJmMU4V-trn6YdUsNO2oeUtxStC2PpkcPa8CD8boQduOKVuLtH4NB1bOqOjazRTfHy1-b3mzMYw0C18h9Bs9YjZ0wNtWJ2vtzM00eo0KhXEB3OBEoQQ/s1366/25%20March%201942%203rd%20Bat%20Inspection%20CH%205187-1.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1152" data-original-width="1366" height="270" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDKXjTCsjCYq1uHDhT2DLbUOaJI9YyaM0g4qnodCqXjhentnPlC6Q0JsMQVEi6JAZ6CMiGX3NLJmMU4V-trn6YdUsNO2oeUtxStC2PpkcPa8CD8boQduOKVuLtH4NB1bOqOjazRTfHy1-b3mzMYw0C18h9Bs9YjZ0wNtWJ2vtzM00eo0KhXEB3OBEoQQ/s320/25%20March%201942%203rd%20Bat%20Inspection%20CH%205187-1.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: start;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Inspection by HM the King of 3rd Parachute Battalion</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: start;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> on Mar 25, 1942 (source IWM)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p></td></tr></tbody></table><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHm6jAf0CVdYXY4Ps27Vlni76kFfyxASVF7LxmGbVOBBtVfnsyszw0S0wlPwUXcVnysKAjpLRAMpa64Tz9Gvb46I15eFT2zwPhwAwip7G19MgBy2kUpWOHYJsUS7U8bKm2-q739mmdML9UXO41iSood7Ujs8d1AMl49ggInDmdtsVD5XpQ_I8whm8zow/s1261/21%20May%201942%20Bulford%20H%2019952.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1261" data-original-width="1152" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHm6jAf0CVdYXY4Ps27Vlni76kFfyxASVF7LxmGbVOBBtVfnsyszw0S0wlPwUXcVnysKAjpLRAMpa64Tz9Gvb46I15eFT2zwPhwAwip7G19MgBy2kUpWOHYJsUS7U8bKm2-q739mmdML9UXO41iSood7Ujs8d1AMl49ggInDmdtsVD5XpQ_I8whm8zow/s320/21%20May%201942%20Bulford%20H%2019952.JPG" width="292" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: left;">Inspection by HM the King of members of the 5th<br /> (Scottish) Parachute Battalion at the time in formation,<br /> with Brigadier Flavel and Maj Gen Browning<br /> on May 21, 1942 at Bulford (source IWM)</i></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span><span style="text-align: left;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span><span style="font-family: times;"><b><u><span style="font-size: 12pt;">4 – The Creation of the Parachute Regiment</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /><br />Special Army order 128 dated on 31 August 1942 detailed the formation of the Glider Pilot Regiment with effect from 24th Feb 1942 and the Parachute Regiment with effect from 1st Aug 1942. With a Regimental designation, unofficial shoulder titles would start replacing gradually the ‘Airborne’ titles with ‘Parachute’ titles.<br /><br /></span></span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1GQJ_vooozUBZHHzq1gjjv6VOVN_uDfb9b7s3Kx5oaiJ4vzNz3jk0YKyFqejJ-KaVSROsJeO1Ez36tgaSmIpTX1slwEKqPKyrJOBAUPH2iJ5qhoDIiAZQHv35eVVjGfO3xgmSY63ACzFMtByXe7paK0NGA20lHhQ5b_kb9a8Lj58VX6aFg_xtXFjFpQ/s800/Grouping%20from%20Pte%20Charles%20Myatt%201%20Bat%201%20Det%20Mortars%20T%20Coy.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="598" data-original-width="800" height="239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1GQJ_vooozUBZHHzq1gjjv6VOVN_uDfb9b7s3Kx5oaiJ4vzNz3jk0YKyFqejJ-KaVSROsJeO1Ez36tgaSmIpTX1slwEKqPKyrJOBAUPH2iJ5qhoDIiAZQHv35eVVjGfO3xgmSY63ACzFMtByXe7paK0NGA20lHhQ5b_kb9a8Lj58VX6aFg_xtXFjFpQ/s320/Grouping%20from%20Pte%20Charles%20Myatt%201%20Bat%201%20Det%20Mortars%20T%20Coy.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">Unissued grouping from Pte Charles Myatt who joined <br />1 Bat T Coy in Aug/Sept 1942. Note the non conforming<br /> private purchase Pegasus patch as well as standard<br /> trimmed Para wings (source Paradata)</i></td></tr></tbody></table><span><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br />Many members of the Parachute forces continued to wear the Airborne shoulder titles and the conversion to ‘Parachute’ shoulder titles remained somewhat limited in 1942. The 1st Parachute Brigade was soon deployed to North Africa in November and at the time the wearing of distinctive formation badges on Battle-Dress was strictly prohibited while in campaign overseas.<br /><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm-zn3NDC7SXStjUwxV3Ms7HRTLa65ESDF5js3DqOQkdWTn96lT60TrgLlgr5O413zB6-JUEZEQ4QwHA7tpTLOhzCcFybO_ajbgkprsIdEb4kDWs67S5IJFLHw2iZGaPop5p5hMRkg1utrKiONV35FfTOQjv5X9SOubX_ZWuQvOhFCpoWvImA8IoHDBg/s646/NA%20492%2015%20Jan%201943%20DSO%20to%20Lt%20Col%20Frost%20from%20Gen%20Anderson.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="567" data-original-width="646" height="281" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm-zn3NDC7SXStjUwxV3Ms7HRTLa65ESDF5js3DqOQkdWTn96lT60TrgLlgr5O413zB6-JUEZEQ4QwHA7tpTLOhzCcFybO_ajbgkprsIdEb4kDWs67S5IJFLHw2iZGaPop5p5hMRkg1utrKiONV35FfTOQjv5X9SOubX_ZWuQvOhFCpoWvImA8IoHDBg/s320/NA%20492%2015%20Jan%201943%20DSO%20to%20Lt%20Col%20Frost%20from%20Gen%20Anderson.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">Lt Col JD Frost receiving DSO from General Anderso<br /> on 15 Jan 1943 near Souk el Khemis (source IWM) </i></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpwSb64gL8i_Y8w4yJp7XkTdOTWtBHAwZ1WSK2bLIY0bhr_RPmGQJ3DHjY-u4gntO4tiK6jGiQymgGRXDmw74ElQBDggXoy6oKkE1x2L0z6lE7YVaf1YK13adBd5ApddkPsXch-_tx4Ibsl0YL-Vd9Q9mjLZj9dyiWKsOtU2fHcB8Di9oUGzivKLjSwg/s715/NA87%201st%20Parachute%20Brigade%20disembarking%20at%20Algiers%20Nov%201942.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="634" data-original-width="715" height="284" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpwSb64gL8i_Y8w4yJp7XkTdOTWtBHAwZ1WSK2bLIY0bhr_RPmGQJ3DHjY-u4gntO4tiK6jGiQymgGRXDmw74ElQBDggXoy6oKkE1x2L0z6lE7YVaf1YK13adBd5ApddkPsXch-_tx4Ibsl0YL-Vd9Q9mjLZj9dyiWKsOtU2fHcB8Di9oUGzivKLjSwg/s320/NA87%201st%20Parachute%20Brigade%20disembarking%20at%20Algiers%20Nov%201942.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">Members of 1st Para Brigade at Algiers Nov 1942<br /> showing no distinctive insignias as per regulations<br /> (Source IWM NA87)</i></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br />2nd Brigade which was still in formation in the UK in early 1943 was inspected by HM the King on April 2 in Bulford, just before being deployed to North Africa later in the month.<br />All members of the three battalions were wearing the ‘Airborne’ shoulder titles as evidenced in the following photos.</span></span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAtw8oJlAk-oscuPgsh69OGEuemvL43pfbTvABngYs6vnGcQca2Iw0eR3qDL4iCDJXBP1zzyDPyr6bSnkgiOsdRuhGhvpmk0CvlJ00REWNbyvIAbFW_lEpmzJScPp9yZQSOBGvaPevJxU8oMBjw6v8GN5TXyjt5m_cJGBgLbIMbJCf7XcdFq_jvBCDGA/s734/4th%20Para%20Bat%20inspected%20on%202%20Apr%201943%20Lt%20Col%20Dene%20Brigadier%20Down%20H28678.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="624" data-original-width="734" height="272" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAtw8oJlAk-oscuPgsh69OGEuemvL43pfbTvABngYs6vnGcQca2Iw0eR3qDL4iCDJXBP1zzyDPyr6bSnkgiOsdRuhGhvpmk0CvlJ00REWNbyvIAbFW_lEpmzJScPp9yZQSOBGvaPevJxU8oMBjw6v8GN5TXyjt5m_cJGBgLbIMbJCf7XcdFq_jvBCDGA/s320/4th%20Para%20Bat%20inspected%20on%202%20Apr%201943%20Lt%20Col%20Dene%20Brigadier%20Down%20H28678.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">4th Para Battalion inspected on 2 Apr 1943 by HM <br />the Kingalong with Lt Col Dene & Brigadier Down<br /> (source IWM H28678). Note the blackened webbing,<br /> something specific to the 4th Battalion.</i></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_qz3S-8yzH3rMdkS7NkNPRAvCDMzltzpKi-MNJLHajH6RuxlEP4KyeHcaKehTSRW5ziim6R3CXBLFvFnPD9BrTinBq4ObiVOVC4j8xHSsCnt_CHX2UnGQcA9El-mS21M5SlSLOZDNzL-ZWj9ESJQq1QGfNPf7AQU-BkIZ-ZNfOIY3zD6Gtz3RxucNCg/s800/5th%20Scottish%20Para%20Bat%20inspected%20on%202%20Apr%201943%20H28674.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="566" data-original-width="800" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_qz3S-8yzH3rMdkS7NkNPRAvCDMzltzpKi-MNJLHajH6RuxlEP4KyeHcaKehTSRW5ziim6R3CXBLFvFnPD9BrTinBq4ObiVOVC4j8xHSsCnt_CHX2UnGQcA9El-mS21M5SlSLOZDNzL-ZWj9ESJQq1QGfNPf7AQU-BkIZ-ZNfOIY3zD6Gtz3RxucNCg/s320/5th%20Scottish%20Para%20Bat%20inspected%20on%202%20Apr%201943%20H28674.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">5th (Scottish) Para Battalion inspected on 2 Apr 1943<br /> by HM the King along with Brigadiers Down & Hotchinson<br /> (source IWM H28674)<br /><br /></i></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUjgFyYMiEBiABBxDdmOF9CDcItsg1c5QmiZegAchqlaio2tJ0Uu6_8EwADXbf5inut7IRCGAuRFsKEMTO-bw0DG5SWD8wH761tXa8sNU2lA0ZoOqthCDz-AGjrd6Oizz8xtJXH4pOWcLSEgDDU0151deHktTdQzPXrNUZxIulkytFPh8RYWf8h3epXQ/s653/6th%20Welsh%20Para%20Bat%20inspected%20on%202%20Apr%201943%20Lt%20Col%20Pritchard%20H28681.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="608" data-original-width="653" height="298" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUjgFyYMiEBiABBxDdmOF9CDcItsg1c5QmiZegAchqlaio2tJ0Uu6_8EwADXbf5inut7IRCGAuRFsKEMTO-bw0DG5SWD8wH761tXa8sNU2lA0ZoOqthCDz-AGjrd6Oizz8xtJXH4pOWcLSEgDDU0151deHktTdQzPXrNUZxIulkytFPh8RYWf8h3epXQ/s320/6th%20Welsh%20Para%20Bat%20inspected%20on%202%20Apr%201943%20Lt%20Col%20Pritchard%20H28681.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: -webkit-standard; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;">Lt Col Pritchard presenting 6th (Welsh) Para Bat<br /> to HM the King on 2 Apr 1943 (source IWM H28681)</span><br /></i></td></tr></tbody></table></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span><span style="font-family: times;"><span><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></span></span></p><span><span style="font-family: times;"><b><u><span style="font-size: 12pt;">5 - The Official Regimental Designation</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /><br />With ACI 905 dated 12 June 1943, the text of Regimental designations was officially approved, and shoulder titles would be formally authorized. The text ’Parachute Regiment’ became the official designation of the Regiment. The Army instruction also defined the colours of background and lettering of the Regimental shoulder titles as respectively Cambridge blue and dark blue, colours that would be common for all formations belonging to the Army Air Corps.<br /><br />The new blue ‘Parachute Regiment’ titles were issued to the Brigades that were in the UK about to form the 6th Airborne division (3rd and 5th Brigades).<br /><br />Most of the members of both Para Brigades in the 6th Airborne Division not only worn the blue Parachute shoulder titles but also the Airborne strips which became no longer a unique attribute of non parachutists within Airborne forces. <br /><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSL1slsSQ7R28-NrGuXLGe5EbQRKjIJ6-uT2oUT5yrqMoes93rl3MgmscPbF6nilfA7ZlNrEwhDPy4V50rjsN_iS2xRi1g2am2Z3A5gPQD9dojdEThwOWUFH3zmk_RlpAO4mlOTs9R8Hoz8qGKLGDws6Fuu4-yD__xGSQgz6gzZT5I9TwHnWiMVb0hnA/s800/Group%20of%20soldiers%20from%20the%207th%20Parachute%20Battalion%20ca%201944.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="472" data-original-width="800" height="189" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSL1slsSQ7R28-NrGuXLGe5EbQRKjIJ6-uT2oUT5yrqMoes93rl3MgmscPbF6nilfA7ZlNrEwhDPy4V50rjsN_iS2xRi1g2am2Z3A5gPQD9dojdEThwOWUFH3zmk_RlpAO4mlOTs9R8Hoz8qGKLGDws6Fuu4-yD__xGSQgz6gzZT5I9TwHnWiMVb0hnA/s320/Group%20of%20soldiers%20from%20the%207th%20Parachute%20Battalion%20ca%201944.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">A group of soldiers from the 7th Parachute Battalion<br /> ca 1944 (source Para Data)</i></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br />Some of the few who adopted the unofficial Parachute title in late 1942/early 1943 converted to the official Parachute Regiment titles and Airborne strips as we can see below:<br /><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhWRPTPQuEGnZ-6W2dKW8Y3N49W6LJBzCubDbajb5WYrsMr7Oj6uiTZ9NQqWtI9ENFT5pJtXNQftuSXPDwWS-SAAxL2tkXwLy5uiOLy4pra-9iUghfbOTX45V_LXevJ8-uXLkcyRthvqL87wrNrGQd92xuGFtPoQfVkbxd85wTaeoV6UXn46FicF4rFw/s750/Pvt%20Ron%20Tucker%209th%20Bat%201943.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="583" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhWRPTPQuEGnZ-6W2dKW8Y3N49W6LJBzCubDbajb5WYrsMr7Oj6uiTZ9NQqWtI9ENFT5pJtXNQftuSXPDwWS-SAAxL2tkXwLy5uiOLy4pra-9iUghfbOTX45V_LXevJ8-uXLkcyRthvqL87wrNrGQd92xuGFtPoQfVkbxd85wTaeoV6UXn46FicF4rFw/s320/Pvt%20Ron%20Tucker%209th%20Bat%201943.jpg" width="249" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></p></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjukcziJTHTwASutrrn9f3gmM-Hs_SHjhzw3YWmaliP1dXpC5QSWzguYZE5G0tXsk7la84O13beXY7TTEX8rAZO9574YT4r-ctbGtONIH28eEhxjSLVeSdmQs4WYp7dIraS1pKRBXu3zlIqUvNVrd3zb2VFRuCwIWEMT1jSWtJu_Hw4rUg-fmAoWUcf8w/s750/Pvt%20Ron%20Tucker%209th%20Bat%201944.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="562" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjukcziJTHTwASutrrn9f3gmM-Hs_SHjhzw3YWmaliP1dXpC5QSWzguYZE5G0tXsk7la84O13beXY7TTEX8rAZO9574YT4r-ctbGtONIH28eEhxjSLVeSdmQs4WYp7dIraS1pKRBXu3zlIqUvNVrd3zb2VFRuCwIWEMT1jSWtJu_Hw4rUg-fmAoWUcf8w/s320/Pvt%20Ron%20Tucker%209th%20Bat%201944.jpg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: times; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">Two photos of Pvt Ron Tucker from 9th (Essex) Battalion<br /> (3rd Brigade). The battalion was formed in Dec 1942<br /> and Pvt Tucker worn the unofficial maroon Parachute<br /> title for a while before adopting the official Regimental<br /> title probably in the second half of 1943<br /> (source batterie-merville.com)</i></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSJxsmTEvng1CxrhkKdeWAw9Jn-Tt_4Z6m6jqC7d9PKRXBmkqDHRjwUtmfUFDJ0IILgTyLl2lQB1Nx84VJokJVxyNJsjZgigwew5qjZaGfIXJTovoL3sDnn_NHPJF5KZKC5E8IX2lWrL07gwDhvOIfHnlJRRY_gYesHbZzV-3nMWR8W0jmsPAvLigOSg/s588/Lc%20Col%20Pine-Coffin%20%231.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="588" data-original-width="543" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSJxsmTEvng1CxrhkKdeWAw9Jn-Tt_4Z6m6jqC7d9PKRXBmkqDHRjwUtmfUFDJ0IILgTyLl2lQB1Nx84VJokJVxyNJsjZgigwew5qjZaGfIXJTovoL3sDnn_NHPJF5KZKC5E8IX2lWrL07gwDhvOIfHnlJRRY_gYesHbZzV-3nMWR8W0jmsPAvLigOSg/s320/Lc%20Col%20Pine-Coffin%20%231.JPG" width="296" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">Lt Col Pine-Coffin on 2 Oct 1942 <br />shortly after being appointed CO of 3rd Battalion<br /> (source IWM)</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWmxCc0JMb2j-Wh14Z47uuRH0oDe27Tbo3PaFzZfRDVfhCTddeQ1__aMlBaterDKX9vWfKs_GN0JHeVRfZPHLAV_1SRdNfkBxjuhC8ySNOA1jva6oMR-HczcTcTLIYEkgnBYJPcqxoyuJYbIwqraZD-LaplPRUhUDAYwBMc2TXyN58whAZcMgPDpZS2g/s497/Lc%20Col%20Pine-Coffin%20%232-1.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="497" data-original-width="411" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWmxCc0JMb2j-Wh14Z47uuRH0oDe27Tbo3PaFzZfRDVfhCTddeQ1__aMlBaterDKX9vWfKs_GN0JHeVRfZPHLAV_1SRdNfkBxjuhC8ySNOA1jva6oMR-HczcTcTLIYEkgnBYJPcqxoyuJYbIwqraZD-LaplPRUhUDAYwBMc2TXyN58whAZcMgPDpZS2g/s320/Lc%20Col%20Pine-Coffin%20%232-1.JPG" width="265" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: times; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">Lt Col Pine-Coffin on 19 May 1944,<br /> inspecting 7th Battalion as CO<br /> (source IWM H38604)</i></td></tr></tbody></table></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXVyEET6yjapPBFGyA4B3YE84i67eSH_isGRjRoOHliIIAE3CRXjmIkuOgAmGljO3kobZevPLugWz-CATSx4Z_qRUKiRTZaIVjgtHc1NQEaNG5z6s75UIBYCYLfCSMeVQlXVuWWBDsIB1AxLs2DVsTDS0Pprmcm4BDpLAxQ46xIbGuPnEnUZ9S1sl41w/s320/attachment-2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="224" data-original-width="320" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXVyEET6yjapPBFGyA4B3YE84i67eSH_isGRjRoOHliIIAE3CRXjmIkuOgAmGljO3kobZevPLugWz-CATSx4Z_qRUKiRTZaIVjgtHc1NQEaNG5z6s75UIBYCYLfCSMeVQlXVuWWBDsIB1AxLs2DVsTDS0Pprmcm4BDpLAxQ46xIbGuPnEnUZ9S1sl41w/s1600/attachment-2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; 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text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">We are further indebted to Crown for his research on the origin and development. of the British Parachutist brevet. With acknowledgement and gratitude his article follows:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div align="center"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" class="MsoNormalTable" style="width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 6pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b>Early Para Wings</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">It is well accepted by collectors that the early parachute wings were manufactured by Lewis Falk Limited. A true characteristic of early wings is split or detached feathers.<br /><br />The first wings were issued in Jan 1941 after ACI 1589 dated 28/12/1940 was published describing the badge itself and the qualifying conditions.<br />From the photos available in the IWM collection, we can get an idea about the way these badges were worn at the very beginning.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3dpBryU29X8bWAUw4C9DhgoWCOyaAIl4FlEHIRDAed2l7c4Hq1QgG4mdrIVCqSEj5RNkGjbhIBenkXvhFFBlbfn5OZPf6JsGb-zsineRSQufMi9v6PZO22cm1ErDfUaAcab9IOl7dbW8xc6e7PdHFSsaCanvbEOrJ3RoYgq84oU0QuI3m-psejWPbC8XF/s662/H6490%20Lt%20Col%20Jackson%20General%20Brooke%20visit%20Jan%201941.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="459" data-original-width="662" height="222" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3dpBryU29X8bWAUw4C9DhgoWCOyaAIl4FlEHIRDAed2l7c4Hq1QgG4mdrIVCqSEj5RNkGjbhIBenkXvhFFBlbfn5OZPf6JsGb-zsineRSQufMi9v6PZO22cm1ErDfUaAcab9IOl7dbW8xc6e7PdHFSsaCanvbEOrJ3RoYgq84oU0QuI3m-psejWPbC8XF/s320/H6490%20Lt%20Col%20Jackson%20General%20Brooke%20visit%20Jan%201941.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYDGKYGYN0kcbjOuS8VBoiNttFQw0v15lmM9F_m_fq5tu7NJ4oKJHnV-aARDsuIQD54pRR36IKfBYwWvMkhAujMhJ-o04KLGMznUpXPNM7KlVHoFPLtAsB8w4a_JL_HQKoWYW9AjFZSxxINcna75ncxaqrEq5r27x4EBNqeSS-dQlH8GyOKLCtKg-RcjPr/s800/CH2617%20Lt%20Col%20Ivor%20Jackson%20ca%20Jan%201941.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="466" data-original-width="800" height="186" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYDGKYGYN0kcbjOuS8VBoiNttFQw0v15lmM9F_m_fq5tu7NJ4oKJHnV-aARDsuIQD54pRR36IKfBYwWvMkhAujMhJ-o04KLGMznUpXPNM7KlVHoFPLtAsB8w4a_JL_HQKoWYW9AjFZSxxINcna75ncxaqrEq5r27x4EBNqeSS-dQlH8GyOKLCtKg-RcjPr/s320/CH2617%20Lt%20Col%20Ivor%20Jackson%20ca%20Jan%201941.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">These two photos were taken in early January 1941 during a parachute demonstration before General Brooke (C in C Home Forces). Lt Col Ivor Jackson, CO of 11th SAS (the only British parachute force at the time) is pictured wearing his Para badge uncut in its full rectangular original form (I’m wondering who the officer, likely his 2nd in C, was standing next to him). Note also the parachutists in the background emplaning with their gear and newly issued smocks. They don’t wear any wings as the badge was at the time only permitted on BD. This was changed on 12 Feb 1941 (ACI 204) when wearing para badges was authorized on smocks (called officially ‘gabardine jump jacket’).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVdom5UZWQlf2PgMnHy3P5iI5MP1ePzXjAjuUbeeYDpJViocdZVkcWA69EIpcU1hlkVvK5n-AlVF80bzSx1bw9O2WfNMxt9YOws3SYoheFDvOiBlH5Sy739ha6NpTn8ZvLwfzw3xA48-9XMQYwOsmVYuWuMXByOqM9o4onhLy7lsK1UrT_dh-ugZw6FE2w/s800/C%20Troop%2011%20SAS%20circa%20Feb%201941.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="493" data-original-width="800" height="197" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVdom5UZWQlf2PgMnHy3P5iI5MP1ePzXjAjuUbeeYDpJViocdZVkcWA69EIpcU1hlkVvK5n-AlVF80bzSx1bw9O2WfNMxt9YOws3SYoheFDvOiBlH5Sy739ha6NpTn8ZvLwfzw3xA48-9XMQYwOsmVYuWuMXByOqM9o4onhLy7lsK1UrT_dh-ugZw6FE2w/s320/C%20Troop%2011%20SAS%20circa%20Feb%201941.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: times;">This photo (source: ParaData) shows members of C troop 11th SAS wearing badges on their smock. Interestingly, the second individual from the left first row (Cpl A. Phillips) was tragically killed in a parachute accident on 16 Feb 1941. We can just assume that all parachute members were eager to wear their badge once permitted.<br /><br /></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2AdJp3kAsp8vgumBzvhkLmjaaBE-bxfrslXU03GhLIz1qEIFTRZE_lHpu_3vmEFNc9thKAqVM5owcLFf3J1aiE6VwUnuJZmn1zL-LTjhFf9VRXmRJlep5_RX3f85g41xxjN_w7l9gHiDeXhMB8RKwCt8LlUi2UO23x4WXjDL1m9M0RKR3BeBC8LMQGhtu/s800/H7415%20early%20badge%20in%20rectangular%20form%20Feb%201941.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="451" data-original-width="800" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2AdJp3kAsp8vgumBzvhkLmjaaBE-bxfrslXU03GhLIz1qEIFTRZE_lHpu_3vmEFNc9thKAqVM5owcLFf3J1aiE6VwUnuJZmn1zL-LTjhFf9VRXmRJlep5_RX3f85g41xxjN_w7l9gHiDeXhMB8RKwCt8LlUi2UO23x4WXjDL1m9M0RKR3BeBC8LMQGhtu/s320/H7415%20early%20badge%20in%20rectangular%20form%20Feb%201941.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7FMM55wwF-zXYUhty8qBtDohXSS-rRsfGe46cziU0rvSRRNLjutg4rkVTbDju1q7lqNsKqMfgv6eB7ubPZDNg4NWDQZt3_CqZVM189IGYsxms9rllVzA5hJPpixpFMXOOCfK-_YrLTqLsTB-z4wxHaicdH8FMiLu4PkgZjLp2cevNaRmup10SFXk959e6/s800/Rectangular%20Front.jpg" style="font-size: 16px; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="388" data-original-width="800" height="155" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7FMM55wwF-zXYUhty8qBtDohXSS-rRsfGe46cziU0rvSRRNLjutg4rkVTbDju1q7lqNsKqMfgv6eB7ubPZDNg4NWDQZt3_CqZVM189IGYsxms9rllVzA5hJPpixpFMXOOCfK-_YrLTqLsTB-z4wxHaicdH8FMiLu4PkgZjLp2cevNaRmup10SFXk959e6/s320/Rectangular%20Front.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">A photo of the recent issued badge was taken on 21 Feb 1941 (IWM) with its typical rectangular form. The split of feathers is clearly visible on both period and modern photos.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">It looks like the practice of wearing the badge in an uncut form was shortly discontinued on BD as can be seen in this snapshot of a movie taken in Feb 1941 (source: IWM ‘The Service Takes to Silk’).</span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIDQGVZDBQPkjYFLqAeqD219yD2btFzbgTGiI3onAaw-CzyLH1oUNZCIq_UFn7qHMgGl6hGEMBU1aN2Q5M5pD39E5DgBpN0kukaEkwZDPDjDergTg5SCtFbA9t0Rirb4Pqz0ShRZo1H2edTPIurKdK185S6tcoWQ1yhgWfaEyOrYh5uwKvBOjpp1CeOIV5/s775/AYY99%20Parachute%20Training%20Feb%2024%201941%202.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="546" data-original-width="775" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIDQGVZDBQPkjYFLqAeqD219yD2btFzbgTGiI3onAaw-CzyLH1oUNZCIq_UFn7qHMgGl6hGEMBU1aN2Q5M5pD39E5DgBpN0kukaEkwZDPDjDergTg5SCtFbA9t0Rirb4Pqz0ShRZo1H2edTPIurKdK185S6tcoWQ1yhgWfaEyOrYh5uwKvBOjpp1CeOIV5/s320/AYY99%20Parachute%20Training%20Feb%2024%201941%202.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Lt Col Jackson himself wore trimmed wings when he presented his unit to the King in May 1941. </span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiweLj5Xcbpln7HMHw7Mb_mTEskozksZYzF1kC_3ENrveb36bbMBTY6xe7knKO2uM200Xj91C5krUryyqKbIg9baa6-9fkuI9d3w3Nihrb_nzxT0EXl2MayaLm5SWw8spnhG5LBOQKNGTFMqwmuMGCiTQADoWswaT5SEgN6M9-wDDIL-vOz_NkMU9n1Idjf/s740/H9971%20May%201941.JPG" style="font-family: -webkit-standard; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="601" data-original-width="740" height="260" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiweLj5Xcbpln7HMHw7Mb_mTEskozksZYzF1kC_3ENrveb36bbMBTY6xe7knKO2uM200Xj91C5krUryyqKbIg9baa6-9fkuI9d3w3Nihrb_nzxT0EXl2MayaLm5SWw8spnhG5LBOQKNGTFMqwmuMGCiTQADoWswaT5SEgN6M9-wDDIL-vOz_NkMU9n1Idjf/s320/H9971%20May%201941.JPG" width="320" /><br /></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: left;">These type of wings although issued first, continued to be worn well beyond late war years. They are not particularly rare and the collector has to be aware that uncut (unissued) or oval shape wings don’t make them any earlier than they are.</span></div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I have added a couple of photos of trimmed examples of the same wing type that could have been issued during mid or even late war.</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqTZsSyuh4tDYnV68JEPaFOHw7BsEOg0sRgMSBNhlc-Zts0Eev83v_VICsbrGU-FvmTHpEV6AGci5-Nz0Pc3rNqbloz4z-HJ2SEaN8BC8ShOxMorHKdxKBaJQec9iiRW5Nk80cwb78KVUXzxHq6airzfVakddevSdkYGEtdQqme7Ue4J4Y3w5FDixZThHE/s730/Split%20wings.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="730" data-original-width="696" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqTZsSyuh4tDYnV68JEPaFOHw7BsEOg0sRgMSBNhlc-Zts0Eev83v_VICsbrGU-FvmTHpEV6AGci5-Nz0Pc3rNqbloz4z-HJ2SEaN8BC8ShOxMorHKdxKBaJQec9iiRW5Nk80cwb78KVUXzxHq6airzfVakddevSdkYGEtdQqme7Ue4J4Y3w5FDixZThHE/s320/Split%20wings.jpg" width="305" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-yJq8_s2GAqwPSHBen6nSHcBSJj-zTL4ZroWSVoDfjy0Pg-eVmA7kVbOSUx3-M8LJbkiPo2CdeJt9AHyOncO2EUpkKevDJ3dlg3x0C6Cb1PFnz-4cMdscqi6GM4c0zfe9PmxeP06EA7w4h1h0FLRNTRr3h8-LSAkbu_SBPOz3_Uqdn6qszjnPKHaFIFB7/s800/Wings%20on%20stripes-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="733" data-original-width="800" height="293" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-yJq8_s2GAqwPSHBen6nSHcBSJj-zTL4ZroWSVoDfjy0Pg-eVmA7kVbOSUx3-M8LJbkiPo2CdeJt9AHyOncO2EUpkKevDJ3dlg3x0C6Cb1PFnz-4cMdscqi6GM4c0zfe9PmxeP06EA7w4h1h0FLRNTRr3h8-LSAkbu_SBPOz3_Uqdn6qszjnPKHaFIFB7/s320/Wings%20on%20stripes-1.jpg" width="320" /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: 12pt; text-align: left;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">In conclusion, these wings were widely distributed during the war and don’t have to be confused with the early and brief practice of wearing uncut badges.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">The following is an excellent example of an early Indian Parachutist Brevet.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUXaQ0_qiihLtFVbGAgE8WNHfZqMDM2EeJCndIvxc1n6S8O_ZfUFuj1uulTvA8c-h2sn9Ao2QIV3SF540Yk87yyg9Pv6AaTWByNwRFer3Xgk8tR24Y8Rf3715QsXTsjhXwL4gx_KpPlSclgZdyrd77UXztuie3SgSxTWYH3TeqfTGrOXbeweD5MfOpXbSG/s800/parachute%20(49).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="405" data-original-width="800" height="162" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUXaQ0_qiihLtFVbGAgE8WNHfZqMDM2EeJCndIvxc1n6S8O_ZfUFuj1uulTvA8c-h2sn9Ao2QIV3SF540Yk87yyg9Pv6AaTWByNwRFer3Xgk8tR24Y8Rf3715QsXTsjhXwL4gx_KpPlSclgZdyrd77UXztuie3SgSxTWYH3TeqfTGrOXbeweD5MfOpXbSG/s320/parachute%20(49).jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj21-99B9-ghbfxsd5QGMNGl9OsWRJVJmA1f5I4MMPc9Pr6jjsEhoNYwr5WPFpK4QvdK3W84Zr_IZLlfbR5w6X847y2uK2YfHGJeFmWZXxvODfpEVAafv3Nq9H7vFVSAeoTwU3dwSAuBqKLxh7qSe2Ukyo5E7f7pa9RQFG_XerE89OlwMLePVSXH2poK9QQ/s800/parachute%20(50).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="376" data-original-width="800" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj21-99B9-ghbfxsd5QGMNGl9OsWRJVJmA1f5I4MMPc9Pr6jjsEhoNYwr5WPFpK4QvdK3W84Zr_IZLlfbR5w6X847y2uK2YfHGJeFmWZXxvODfpEVAafv3Nq9H7vFVSAeoTwU3dwSAuBqKLxh7qSe2Ukyo5E7f7pa9RQFG_XerE89OlwMLePVSXH2poK9QQ/s320/parachute%20(50).jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">For individual readers who may be interested in obtaining more extensive references on the subject, and may not be aware of the following two tomes (although a bit expensive). Each provide comprehensive color photography of original insignis with equally excellent narrative, and are well worth the investment.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">British Airborne Insignia</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: left;">, Lock. Oliver, Miliary Mode Publishing, Hitchin, Hertfordshire SG5 3FE, 2015, ISBN: 1634524047 ISBN 13: 9781634524049.</span></p><p></p></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5UVeIDtAaHnDnyFfiWlV-JhLWaPrq7zs7K0awQqRnyxX-zYqBOpsYsx0nV1TecsheInu10qU_2-_tftWJpYcwS03dH7zD_231Eft9OF4_Q_ZrL-4gDmajdste9NOeQmmXC1EEM6HiTNMhTZGey6bSK5wS10rjqjr3-hC5Au0ULRPZGWkbsoIyijmFKA/s506/20009.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="506" data-original-width="357" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5UVeIDtAaHnDnyFfiWlV-JhLWaPrq7zs7K0awQqRnyxX-zYqBOpsYsx0nV1TecsheInu10qU_2-_tftWJpYcwS03dH7zD_231Eft9OF4_Q_ZrL-4gDmajdste9NOeQmmXC1EEM6HiTNMhTZGey6bSK5wS10rjqjr3-hC5Au0ULRPZGWkbsoIyijmFKA/s320/20009.jpg" width="226" /></a></div><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></i></p>British Airborne Insignia Vol.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">2, Lock. Oliver, Miliary Mode Publishing, Hitchin, Hertfordshire SG5 3FE, 2017, ISBN: 1513622498 ISBN 13: 97815113622491.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUFGK8F4zvHyULOIM_AMBcJme_4UQ3yYYFllBiIXLfazcJsMEdKoZXd8l5Ec3Q-NcWW865OYixnyUyFc1XaDJAakahdQrl5OKZmu8UcmMPfhPJHabK2GJEBPdJ6YxMvTJ59j_V4aJeaTBoKJ41QudQlin0OQbPBKolxToo-wkf2Hois_P3e27H3RLg5g/s525/20006.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="525" data-original-width="355" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUFGK8F4zvHyULOIM_AMBcJme_4UQ3yYYFllBiIXLfazcJsMEdKoZXd8l5Ec3Q-NcWW865OYixnyUyFc1XaDJAakahdQrl5OKZmu8UcmMPfhPJHabK2GJEBPdJ6YxMvTJ59j_V4aJeaTBoKJ41QudQlin0OQbPBKolxToo-wkf2Hois_P3e27H3RLg5g/s320/20006.jpg" width="216" /></a></div><br /><p></p></div><br /></div>Arnhemjimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01794722964883335445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2956713848009971988.post-77776653320474053872022-11-06T12:58:00.038-08:002023-02-06T10:53:37.320-08:00A "Spy" Story Within a Spy Story - "Ring Them Bells"<p> <span face="Calibri, sans-serif">During the course of my dual career as a naval intelligence officer and civilian systems engineer/threat analysis manager, one of the most challenging and rewarding programs I worked on was a black program called Ivy Bells, a joint Navy, CIA, NSA, civilian effort (1971-1981). In essence Ivy Bells provided the US Navy comprehensive 24/7 access to unencrypted Soviet Naval communications between Soviet Pacific Fleet Headquarters located in Vladivostok and the Soviet Navy Pacific Submarine Force Headquarters in </span>Petropavlovsk. In all aspects it rivals, and in some exceeds the more well known Operation Jennifer/Azorian, partial raising of the Soviet Golf Class SSG K-129 submarine north-east of the Hawaiian Islands in the mid-1970’s, by the identical group of agencies. See; <a href="https://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2020/05/when-is-harp-is-not-refinance-of-your.html" style="color: #954f72; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">https://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2020/05/when-is-harp-is-not-refinance-of-your.html</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgosL562HbAtvr97qKDlg9r6c1nxnw8G_fcLuf0YH9okGShFJoaffUUJjHu9eUxZjXi_UZy96snyIiuiSfv2tljU8LX_NJ4pmMQ9ZWNfk4mYXU-rxFDvA1FJLMNZoJkOe1co9yFuzyvTfFSnTXvOl1n28iLgmDjSIkdooB6QZ0YQqM_dgWXvuC8ekwCjg/s1200/kamchatsky2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="784" data-original-width="1200" height="209" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgosL562HbAtvr97qKDlg9r6c1nxnw8G_fcLuf0YH9okGShFJoaffUUJjHu9eUxZjXi_UZy96snyIiuiSfv2tljU8LX_NJ4pmMQ9ZWNfk4mYXU-rxFDvA1FJLMNZoJkOe1co9yFuzyvTfFSnTXvOl1n28iLgmDjSIkdooB6QZ0YQqM_dgWXvuC8ekwCjg/s320/kamchatsky2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">Like any program of this nature it was highly classified and compartmented, Security was successfully maintained, and for that reason, most participants in the program never knew of the following episode that occurred during the span of the effort. Even commanding a naval reserve unit directly supporting the Naval Investigative Service Regional Office in San Diego.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">Due to my affiliations and the unique nature of this story, I thought all though quite lengthy, it was well worthy and sufficiently interesting, of repeating it the blog. With full acknowledgement and expressed gratitude to <i>POCKET WORTHY: Ivy Bells: A Spyhunter Series Story,Truly Adventurous | Greg Nichols;<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">The specific two modified submarines used during the course of the operation and other elements of Operation Ivy Bells are shown in the following images. The USS Richard B. Russell (SSN-687) and the USS Seawolf (SSN-575) were also employed in similar intelligence gathering missions.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPUOHudL1DcXO08Xje3jNj-SlfpDwAXQhlhiQoQSl2-cB2q2YVbUyLifQzz7AmpPm79280s4QPuLOb4LLOUXq8MYfJ0pOEu2lkhS6CDdF2h47g5LwGrVpn72G7t00Ioi97krvAnspReAINIMRYduFj2tENPC1j-IaDURjEj2BbFqvYPMItH_Mz0nDHTQ/s4000/Halibut_poster4000.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="4000" height="123" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPUOHudL1DcXO08Xje3jNj-SlfpDwAXQhlhiQoQSl2-cB2q2YVbUyLifQzz7AmpPm79280s4QPuLOb4LLOUXq8MYfJ0pOEu2lkhS6CDdF2h47g5LwGrVpn72G7t00Ioi97krvAnspReAINIMRYduFj2tENPC1j-IaDURjEj2BbFqvYPMItH_Mz0nDHTQ/s320/Halibut_poster4000.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">USS Halibut (SSGN 587) with Ivy Bells elements<br />shown</td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHRZ4CEkK7TFCxJ1xoTXfz5bvyWaguYoZly9Fr69hZKIwCexCoT9QIL24-Ic--a2Y3Newh1lAAswEsIHjVqL2B0EUH-NupCLsAOBpblCtZTLXrys2I4pxHIAZm0D0NXQAilPX8gI5LMo_uYHl3iOVpAhfjOVlWuKtnv-hUO1BB8ZjhRz2B3uCba8JT7w/s3700/Parche_cutaway.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1657" data-original-width="3700" height="143" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHRZ4CEkK7TFCxJ1xoTXfz5bvyWaguYoZly9Fr69hZKIwCexCoT9QIL24-Ic--a2Y3Newh1lAAswEsIHjVqL2B0EUH-NupCLsAOBpblCtZTLXrys2I4pxHIAZm0D0NXQAilPX8gI5LMo_uYHl3iOVpAhfjOVlWuKtnv-hUO1BB8ZjhRz2B3uCba8JT7w/s320/Parche_cutaway.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">USS Parche (SSN 683) again with Ivy Bells<br /> elements shown</td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgryw6Km0y_McDNcHVuZYYYYIs5B5xYe_c98fXxgM62nLH4r-UUdfhhVG_L2Fo3PAvEK0jYniup5ffz9JFPEqT-Q1_NI0_8s7N9NITTg_h-2RnMKOzXcZBXwUL1_IKzUofhwMp_nPBFeJuJETGg-0r1JDCYmMUNgCacGb4i2UdefWpDCxXrlyjN37LK9A/s800/Okhotsk-Wiretap-removal-1981_SIGINT-CHATTER.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="469" data-original-width="800" height="188" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgryw6Km0y_McDNcHVuZYYYYIs5B5xYe_c98fXxgM62nLH4r-UUdfhhVG_L2Fo3PAvEK0jYniup5ffz9JFPEqT-Q1_NI0_8s7N9NITTg_h-2RnMKOzXcZBXwUL1_IKzUofhwMp_nPBFeJuJETGg-0r1JDCYmMUNgCacGb4i2UdefWpDCxXrlyjN37LK9A/s320/Okhotsk-Wiretap-removal-1981_SIGINT-CHATTER.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">AT&T Bell Labs "Mdnster"(never otherwise<br /> named/designated) Nuclear Powered<br /> Induction Receiver/Recorder, all 6 tons</td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8Y15hRLW3wyoJ9M3TA7kIzoAF5KGdoI4tirvcm-PAuByjzGlJCATHH60O6h0reUeadv-UeALGpRGDT97nrBQrK5fDs6fsqwXte0uL6kQmvq62PHhBnMDk5PfAo8w3f8br_Pga1chAp_4vywW-GzYC1F272FiWvSbVbCx9Zd_Pj7UwwGmWqJNEv7KG9A/s320/asnyQQl.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="223" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8Y15hRLW3wyoJ9M3TA7kIzoAF5KGdoI4tirvcm-PAuByjzGlJCATHH60O6h0reUeadv-UeALGpRGDT97nrBQrK5fDs6fsqwXte0uL6kQmvq62PHhBnMDk5PfAo8w3f8br_Pga1chAp_4vywW-GzYC1F272FiWvSbVbCx9Zd_Pj7UwwGmWqJNEv7KG9A/s1600/asnyQQl.png" width="223" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Two more images of the same device</td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsIOMk4kuxWrlFSBJDh6xW-HO3KRENeJgamlCSMgOCVo9aCrKqY4tgVXZhBZS_M5JBIVuV-x-6tqOSIe_2vhKr4b1bpN4ZLSEXQ27VN6JxhjUAbFTSwHdFfFSnr7Akfz1TPNCmIPT_hoQKaWFxgBl16rQk2sWtdO5kY9PVid7Ty0YvV3FsTR5A5q6onQ/s320/z9UFtaK.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="279" data-original-width="320" height="279" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsIOMk4kuxWrlFSBJDh6xW-HO3KRENeJgamlCSMgOCVo9aCrKqY4tgVXZhBZS_M5JBIVuV-x-6tqOSIe_2vhKr4b1bpN4ZLSEXQ27VN6JxhjUAbFTSwHdFfFSnr7Akfz1TPNCmIPT_hoQKaWFxgBl16rQk2sWtdO5kY9PVid7Ty0YvV3FsTR5A5q6onQ/s1600/z9UFtaK.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The "Monster" in fully deployed status</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJNMk81uiLykn8squcmJgKmrjGnKg4SAf2oUbfPE7hXMFvZe_Sofe7b2NHnbveXUNhMKRJGtq1PMgRMbWsDV-pduWoRPGzC2xnkB12YhF3gSBnIyekCun041PbJIolj8x2XuC3Ze4t26SAuIu51qgttJjzLBtW0EXDfi1BGBWZb-CQ3HG-mGXJckxm1w/s940/halibut_mk11.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="410" data-original-width="940" height="140" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJNMk81uiLykn8squcmJgKmrjGnKg4SAf2oUbfPE7hXMFvZe_Sofe7b2NHnbveXUNhMKRJGtq1PMgRMbWsDV-pduWoRPGzC2xnkB12YhF3gSBnIyekCun041PbJIolj8x2XuC3Ze4t26SAuIu51qgttJjzLBtW0EXDfi1BGBWZb-CQ3HG-mGXJckxm1w/s320/halibut_mk11.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Westinghouse/Kirby-Norman Mk 11<br /> rebreathing mixed gas diving system<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrtidXene2rt3x9Kq0QsgHwa7lyWCTstxahMaijS4sm6ytSXTDJpba_TUzstMu_-yIkZI45SPluEZOwyXx_0GZmXSMJlmL4slLd72-jKRFGa2cNnXVhsQRR8IgvyHZKP6VsZoLNUTFml05TFwsG9-JZ3k8bdGG0wuF6awcafTUTOOgEt0oN_3DgNu3Ng/s931/Copy%20of%20M%20XI%205.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="931" data-original-width="750" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrtidXene2rt3x9Kq0QsgHwa7lyWCTstxahMaijS4sm6ytSXTDJpba_TUzstMu_-yIkZI45SPluEZOwyXx_0GZmXSMJlmL4slLd72-jKRFGa2cNnXVhsQRR8IgvyHZKP6VsZoLNUTFml05TFwsG9-JZ3k8bdGG0wuF6awcafTUTOOgEt0oN_3DgNu3Ng/s320/Copy%20of%20M%20XI%205.jpg" width="258" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mk 11 Mod 0 US Navy rebreathing<br /> mixed gas deep sea diving equipment</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: times;">(Ivy Bells: A Spyhunter Series Story<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: times;">After plans for the most expensive covert operation in U.S. history are stolen, the future of the free world rests in the hands of two teens and a professional spy hunter.)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">"The divers emerged from a secret compartment in the belly of the spy sub. Breathing an experimental gas mixture and operating at previously unthinkable depths, they descended in near-darkness toward a thick undersea communications cable. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">The American sub and divers were operating deep in Soviet territorial waters. Codenamed Ivy Bells, it was a joint mission of the CIA, NSA, and Navy, and it was the most important intelligence-gathering operation of the Cold War. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">Working in the twilight of 400 feet below the surface, the divers lassoed the cable with a custom-made undersea listening device that acted like a giant stethoscope for electronic pulses. It recorded communications on physical tapes, which had to be retrieved and replaced by divers every month. Every mission carried the greatest possible risk of discovery and death. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">The job was nearly finished when an audible pop, loud as a starter pistol, stopped the divers cold. In an environment where the slightest sound could tip off the enemy — the area was littered with undersea microphones and the Soviets patrolled by ship and sub — the sharp noise was a sign something had gone very wrong. Sure enough, currents from a storm had rocked the vessel so violently that an anchor chain holding it to the seabed snapped. The divers were left stranded on the outside as the sub floated away. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">Onboard, the captain ordered the crew to flood the ship’s buoyancy tanks. Sinking quickly, the massive ship hit the sea floor with a water-dulled clank and groans of stressed metal. When it came to rest, the divers outside frantically swam to the dive chamber door located midships. After a few anxious minutes, the crew delivered a damage assessment. The vital systems were intact. Every sailor onboard breathed a sigh of relief. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">The sub limped home, but the close call drove home the razor thin margin for error in such a delicate operation. Discovery of an American sub in Soviet waters could easily turn the Cold War hot. The Pentagon needed a better spy submarine, the most advanced ever built, and an extraordinary plan took shape. Work on the special sub would take place at Mare Island Naval Shipyard in the city of Vallejo, 30 miles outside San Francisco. A Navy contractor (</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;">AT&T Bell Labs)</span><span style="font-family: times;"> with engineering offices in Vallejo would spearhead the highly sensitive project, the most expensive undertaking of its kind in the history of naval warfare. All of it would be off the books, top secret, of highest possible importance to national security. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">Time pressures on the contractor were immense, but completing the job on time would mean a financial windfall. Employees started to cut small corners, save time where they could. Instead of using secure couriers to transport printed materials between the company’s engineering office in downtown Vallejo and the Mare Island shipyard a few miles away, engineers occasionally carried the plans themselves in personal vehicles, saving a string of phone calls and time-wasting ID checks. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><i>It was barely a five minute trip. What could wrong?</i><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">In April 1986, a 65-year-old engineer walked out of the engineering office gripping two locked canvas bags full of blueprints. He crossed the street, popped his trunk, and placed the satchels inside. That’s when he felt a whoosh of movement behind him. The next thing he knew he was on the ground. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">The robbery had happened with blinding speed. Dazed, the engineer looked up in time to see a well-built white man running the satchels to an idling blue pickup truck. The thief climbed into the passenger seat and slammed the door. The getaway vehicle, driven by a Black man visible through the truck’s rear window, squealed away. The engineer lying on the pavement would have known in an instant he had just played a role in the largest intelligence disaster in modern memory. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">Certain that the inner workings of the super spy sub, as well as details of the top secret undersea wiretapping operation, had just fallen into the hands of Soviet spies or free agents who would ransom the plans to the highest bidder, the contractor’s security team urgently phoned Navy counter-intelligence and the FBI. Like so much of the Ivy Bells operation, the security breach was unparalleled in special warfare, and the full strength of American law enforcement would be deployed in a mad scramble to get the plans back. It would mean a manhunt of epic proportions, and in the eyes of military planners the stakes were the very fate of the free world. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><i>Only it wasn’t the Soviets who stole the plans. It was two teens from working-class Vallejo who grabbed the satchels on a lark and unwittingly became the most wanted outlaws of the Cold War</i>. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">This is a true story.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">Scott Carmichael’s radio crackled to life. He was driving a back street in industrial South Francisco on what had been a relatively quiet day. In his thirties, he was beginning to develop a belly and bore the early signs of approaching middle age. He was naturally shy around people, but he was good natured and personable. He was also a preternaturally talented investigator. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">The voice on the radio belonged to his supervisor, and the message was urgent. Scott listened, then spun his car north toward Vallejo, about an hour away, jamming the pedal to the floor. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><i>Jesus</i>, he thought, taking in the full implications of the missing plans. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">Swerving through traffic en route to Vallejo, Scott knew only too well that the Russian consulate in San Francisco was a mere 30 miles from the contractor’s office. He was the sole Navy investigator on the west coast — the only law enforcement official outside Washington DC, in fact — who’d been briefed on the full scope of Ivy Bells. The FBI, to say nothing of local law enforcement, was completely in the dark. Even his direct supervisors at NIS didn’t know much about the special assignment, which had been handed to him directly from top officials in Washington. He was young for that kind of responsibility, but he’d impressed his superiors by finishing first in the federal law enforcement academy and solving some big cases in his first months on the job. He had been placed in charge of internal security for Ivy Bells, which primarily meant making sure the sailors, contractors, and Navy personnel at Mare Island didn’t leak a solitary word about the military’s closest-guarded secret. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">Now, two satchels of top-secret blueprints and schematics had been stolen. Like everyone else, Scott had to consider the possibility it was a Soviet strike. The Russian consulate in San Francisco was a known gateway for Soviet spies, and Mare Island would have been heavily watched in this phase of the Cold War. It suggested an unmitigated disaster for the nation — to say nothing of his promising young career. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">With no one else to consult, no one on the ground who knew the full details of the ultra-secret program, it was up to Scott, and Scott alone, to get the materials back. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">White-knuckling it up the freeway, he careened down the ramp into Vallejo. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">Prior to becoming a Navy counterintelligence investigator, Scott had walked the beat as a cop in a redneck town in Wisconsin. It was his first real job after military service and college, and he loved it. There were days, responding to a call about a barroom brawl or domestic disturbance out in the sticks, when his nearest backup had been twenty minutes away and the guy a few feet in front of him was 220 pounds of drunken fury. Scott was an introvert by nature, but one of his sergeants, a guy named Ron, taught him that his most effective weapon in situations like those was his ability to talk his way out of trouble. Nine times out of ten, a volatile situation could be defused with some quick thinking, Ron imparted. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">Another sergeant nicknamed “Fergie” added an addendum: <i>When things do feel like they’re going south, throw the first punch with as much force as you can muster and end it before it begins</i>. Scott bundled the two lessons into a maxim, which had served him well since joining the elite Navy Investigative Services (NIS) team: <i>Whatever the problem is, first try a Ron, but always keep a Fergie in reserve.</i><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">Scott pulled into the parking lot at the contractor’s office. Flashing his badge, he spoke to a secretary, who informed him that the company’s security team had already called the local FBI office for assistance. <i>That’s bad</i>, Scott realized<i>.</i> The secretary leaned closer and whispered that a young FBI Special Agent was just finishing up an interview with the contractor’s security personnel<i>.</i><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">Scott thanked her and hurried over to the security office, where he bumped into the FBI agent strolling out of the security meeting. He was in his early twenties, a greenhorn. Scott introduced himself as an NIS investigator and began asking questions. The contractor’s security team had obviously fed the agent a cover story, which was protocol — even the FBI couldn’t be trusted with details about Ivy Bells. Consequently, the agent had no idea how grave the situation was. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">“Listen,” Scott said, leveling a deadly serious gaze. He figured if the FBI was already involved in tracking this theft, he could at least get some real help out of them. “We’ve got to get this stuff back before it’s dark, tonight.” <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">The agent looked puzzled, so Scott outlined the national security <i>clusterfuck</i> they now found themselves in the middle of. The agent squinted back, processing this new information. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">“Well,” he answered at last, “I should really go back and talk to my boss.” <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">Scott clenched his teeth. The Vallejo FBI office was a two-agent outpost, and he’d clearly drawn the low card. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">“Okay,” Scott answered, hustling past him on his way to interview the contractor’s security team, “please get back to me.” <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">The FBI agent did get back to him promptly, but the news was confounding. On the radio, the supervising agent informed Scott he was already coordinating a city-wide manhunt using local Vallejo police. <i>They wouldn’t be needing his assistance.</i><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">Scott stared at his walkie talkie in disbelief. Not only was the FBI cutting him out, but now every badge carrying beat cop in Vallejo would be on the trail of the stolen documents. If the FBI couldn’t be trusted with details about Ivy Bells, imagine the local foot patrol happening across a satchel full of highly classified submarine blueprints. For a man whose primary job was to plug security leaks, this was like being handed a sieve and asked to bail. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">Scott ran out of the office, but he realized he had no leads and no prospects. Somehow, some way, he had to get to those documents before they got to the Russian consulate or were intercepted by local cops. He was about an hour behind the thieves. His only hope was an extraordinary stroke of luck. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">Scott was still a newbie with NIS, which made him an unusual choice to lead internal security on a sensitive operation like Ivy Bells. He’d first joined the Navy after high school, mustering out after his term was up and heading to college before becoming a small-town cop. He only applied for the NIS job after turning 30 and sensing he wasn’t living up to his full potential. He’d been with the agency a few years and was considered a “blue flamer” by his superiors, a young man who seemed destined to rocket to the top. In his first months as a trainee, a time when most new investigators were learning to file paperwork, he’d identified the culprits behind a scheme to pilfer hundreds of thousands of dollars from a major Navy base. His supervisors had already tried and failed to solve the case, and the resulting arrests were a big win for the Bay Area NIS office. It became the match that ignited Scott’s career.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">Soon after that case, Scott was sent to the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC) in Glynco, Georgia, where most federal law enforcement agencies train their recruits. After a notoriously challenging three-month curriculum, Scott graduated first in his class, which included hundreds of investigators from Customs, Treasury, IRS, and other agencies. The top ranking surprised him — he’d been a so-so student in high school and college — and he attributed his success to a deep-seated fear of failing at something he realized he genuinely cared about. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">Scott’s orders on Ivy Bells were simple: <i>Make sure there are no leaks</i>. It was a staggeringly important job: The lives of the submarine crew and, in large part, the outcome of the Cold War rested on the secrecy of the operation. Still, it hadn’t exactly been a challenging assignment prior to the theft of the documents. Submariners are a famously tight-lipped clique, and the crew assigned to conduct the undersea wiretapping was the best of the best. Scott had gone so far as to enlist attractive women to fawn all over crew members on shore leave in order to surreptitiously test their resilience. To a man, they remained admirably stalwart. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">Even if someone involved in Ivy Bells decided to talk, there was a failsafe. Due to the extraordinary sensitivity of the operation, even most people directly involved didn’t know its true nature. All but a few officers, divers, and technicians aboard the submarine believed the real mission was one of a handful of cover stories. One was that the sub was meant to clandestinely recover debris from a Soviet supersonic missile that had blown up during testing. The Navy went to such pains to conceal the Ivy Bells operation that the cover story was actually carried out alongside the wiretapping. More than two million tiny fragments from a spent missile had been recovered by Navy divers, enough that the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory had been able to reverse engineer its own copy. The undersea wiretapping was happening right under the noses of the sub’s crew. Needless to say, the theft of top secret plans put all that careful work into jeopardy. In fact, the whole multi-billion-dollar intelligence gathering operation hinged on Scott finding the men who’d grabbed those satchels. And now he had the local cops to worry about. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">Canvassing Vallejo in his car, as well as Navy communications, Scott’s walkie talkie squelched loudly. It was tuned to a local police channel, and there was suddenly a whole lot of activity. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">Scott listened to the chatter over the radio. A local cop had stopped a blue pickup driven by a 17-year-old Black male with a white passenger of the same age. The truck matched the description of the getaway vehicle. Scott frantically pulled out a city map. Vallejo, a diverse, economically depressed town, was laid out in a loose grid, and he located the intersection with his finger. Then he sped off, map pressed against the steering wheel. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">When he arrived, he found a chaotic scene. The blue pickup was stopped, doors open, in the middle of the street, which was now cordoned off. The driver was standing nearby with a lone detective. A hundred yards away, every cop and detective in Vallejo, uniformed and plainclothes, along with the two FBI agents, stood in a menacing huddle around the white kid whom, whom the engineer had identified as the person that stole the plans. It was clear that everyone carrying a badge believed this was the kind of case that could make a career. It looked like a scrum of vultures. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">Scott walked up to the lone detective babysitting the driver and flashed his NIS credentials. The detective, clearly eager to get in on the action down the street, nudged his suspect toward Scott. “Here, watch this kid,” he said, then jogged off. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">Scott looked at the young driver, then at the ongoing interrogation down the street. Having worked as a cop, he had a good read on what was happening. These were two kids who had done something very stupid, but they weren’t spies or hardened criminals. Scott figured they’d been at it with the white kid for fifteen minutes or so. He was also sure the kid hadn’t confessed yet. If he had, they’d have piled him into a cruiser by now and rushed him downtown for booking. The kid in the center of the interrogation was probably scared witless, Scott guessed. He should have been. He was the one who committed what any prosecutor would portray as a strong-arm robbery. He’d likely taken a look at several government documents stamped SECRET, to boot. He was facing serious jail time, and he wasn’t saying a word.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">But the driver? Scott took one look at him and saw how shaken he was. He had a hunch the kid hadn’t really wanted to be involved from the get-go, was just along for the ride. He looked younger than his friend, exposed and frightened. The Vallejo detective had handed Scott the one person who might, with coaxing, lead him to the stolen documents. Bad police work, to be sure, but good luck for Scott.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">Putting on his good cop face, Scott turned to the kid and invoked his old sergeant Ron. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">“Look, both you and I know what you got,” Scott said. “And you do not want it. You do not want that stuff. It’s classified government information. You could be in big trouble for taking it. But I’m going to give you a way out of this so that everybody will be happy and you can just walk away, free as a bird. Here it is. You tell me where my bags are, give them back to me, all of it, and when you do that, we are going to pretend that this entire affair never happened. It simply never happened, and we’re going to forget about it. You will not be arrested. You will not go to jail. You won’t go to court. We’ll just walk away from this thing friends. You go one way, I’ll go the other, and you’ll never see or hear from me again. That’s the deal.” <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">The kid was processing this, deciding whether to trust this unlikely ally. That’s when Scott invoked a Fergie and brought down the hammer. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">“But, on the other hand, if you don’t give that bag back to me, I can tell you that I am going to find the damned thing anyway. And when I do, you’re going to go to the deepest and darkest jail cell the United States government can find. You will never again see the light of day, and I will never, ever let you out of there. You’ll just rot in that jail cell forever. It’s that simple.” <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">Right after the speech, the detective who’d handed the kid over returned. Everyone was heading downtown. Scott led the kid to the detective’s car. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">“Just remember what I said.” <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">Rushing to his car, Scott got in line behind what looked like a funeral procession of police vehicles. At the station, it took the front desk a few minutes to verify his credentials. The place was a zoo, suddenly buzzing with every on-duty officer in the city. When he got through, he saw that the chaotic scene from the street had reassembled itself inside the police station. Every cop in the city had squeezed into an interrogation room. The room was so packed people were spilling out the doorway into the hall. Scott saw the kid seated in a room nearby, once again with a single detective babysitting him. The second Scott stuck his head in, the detective leapt up from his chair and asked Scott to watch the driver. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">“Another detective will be by in a minute,” the guy called, already halfway down the hall. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">The kid looked up at Scott. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">“What should I do?” he asked. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">Before Scott could answer, the other detective lumbered in holding a small spiral notepad and an attitude of general indifference. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">Scott turned to the kid. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">“Okay,” he said, “This is it. Where’s my bag?” <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">“Back home. Stuffed between the washer and the dryer.” <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">Scott practically leapt across the table and got the kid to his feet. He pulled him by the arm and led him out of the room. The stunned detective had no idea what was happening. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">“Tell your friends I’m going to get my stuff,” Scott called.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">Scott put the kid in his passenger seat and they drove to a suburban house not far from the contractor’s facility. It was like all the other small tract homes in the neighborhood, a little run, having seen better days. He might have noticed a car in the driveway, beat up from driving to and from double shifts at Mare Island. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">Scott entered the house with the kid. When he walked out he had the blueprints. He tucked the materials under his arm. He got in his car and the kid watched him drive away without making trouble, as promised. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">Scott drove directly to the contractor’s office. The security team inventoried the contents of the satchels. Everything was accounted for. The sun was just starting to go down. He had gotten the materials back before dark. <o:p></o:p></span></p><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><hr align="center" size="0" width="100%" /></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">On the long drive home, unease began setting in. Scott was troubled by the lack of cooperation with the FBI, but that was easy enough to explain away with ego. More unsettling was how quickly he had chosen to violate investigative procedure, the very thing he’d aced down at FLETC. The kid who gave him back the satchels had not been read his rights, for one. Scott had barreled into his home and taken evidence. He had the kid’s permission, sure, but the kid was also a juvenile. Scott didn’t have authority to promise the kid he wouldn’t be arrested, although with the satchels back safely he could be reasonably sure there wouldn’t be an arrest. There was no physical evidence, for one, and no chance the contractor would be pushing for prosecution. At the very least, Scott knew he had opened himself to disciplinary action for tossing out the rulebook so brazenly. The kid might even want to sue, risking a public hearing that would poke another potential hole in the black program Scott had sworn to protect. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">The thoughts festered overnight, and in the morning he decided to drive to work early and tell his NIS supervisor the whole story before someone else had a chance to, come what may. Scott waited in the parking lot next to the NIS office on Treasure Island in the San Francisco Bay, where he intercepted his supervisor, Bill, coming into work. Scott barreled through the story without taking a breath. He told Bill how he’d divulged sensitive information about Ivy Bells to the FBI, how he’d knowingly interfered with a local police investigation, how he’d recovered the documents without a warrant and then made an executive decision to get rid of the evidence by giving everything back to the contractor. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">Scott affirmed that he felt confident he had done the right thing at every step, but he also recognized that he had stepped far out of bounds. When he finished, his conscience clear, he awaited the summary ruling from his supervisor that could spell the end of his career. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">But it turned out Bill already had a pretty good idea what Scott had been up to in Vallejo, even if he wasn’t privy to the full scope of Ivy Bells. The previous evening, he had received a call from the Director of Counterintelligence for NIS (CAPT Victor Palmucci, USN(Red.)), the head honcho back in Washington DC.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikr5fvHSlTx1zQ3MKiWdte_YKxAnKRvOelm_i1sCTX6rqzb0nUOVZDAzwvwwc6vnyD_XZGmtMQ9h0UGUKnliXJUd9zcuNa3P43EM2ChOV2qkg3yRbt8r_CBIUk8TcNydmGONQl9lN33Uja20h7-z6_XPoSIev1alJ0SUuMBKZ7aNlqp23g_Urg7y4Czg/s320/2551068_o.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="218" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikr5fvHSlTx1zQ3MKiWdte_YKxAnKRvOelm_i1sCTX6rqzb0nUOVZDAzwvwwc6vnyD_XZGmtMQ9h0UGUKnliXJUd9zcuNa3P43EM2ChOV2qkg3yRbt8r_CBIUk8TcNydmGONQl9lN33Uja20h7-z6_XPoSIev1alJ0SUuMBKZ7aNlqp23g_Urg7y4Czg/s1600/2551068_o.jpg" width="218" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">NIS CI Director <span style="font-family: times; text-align: left;">Victor Palmucci</span> </td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">The Director had final word on all counterintelligence activities conducted by the agency, so Bill smiled as he repeated what the man had told him over the phone the night before. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">“It’s about time one of our agents did something right.” <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">Scott was still a blue flamer, after all, and his counterintelligence career was only just beginning. Though he didn’t know it yet, the former Navy communications officer turned small-town cop turned government investigator was well on his way to becoming the most successful spy hunter in American history.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">He had just stopped his first international incident — <i>It wouldn’t be his last."</i><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF8HM12YJ4hez8eZYf6wFcT8Hc0H2MewfIPyqltFgiLi7isryxvxiUmAgXNYAN4pdcCRiqNANVn5qP_1Q0Tb21rS9wgNS3LzjYYPfir9J7uwm_ckUKuWlDRh6Mjv4PKDI2Rtuxnovg4__xNnyCXsYzJUKkDqCsf7I-JDwvRdrNz-Ee5QhttKdu6e0m_g/s705/usnavalinvagentgoldbadgeobv_518x705.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="705" data-original-width="518" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF8HM12YJ4hez8eZYf6wFcT8Hc0H2MewfIPyqltFgiLi7isryxvxiUmAgXNYAN4pdcCRiqNANVn5qP_1Q0Tb21rS9wgNS3LzjYYPfir9J7uwm_ckUKuWlDRh6Mjv4PKDI2Rtuxnovg4__xNnyCXsYzJUKkDqCsf7I-JDwvRdrNz-Ee5QhttKdu6e0m_g/s320/usnavalinvagentgoldbadgeobv_518x705.jpg" width="235" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: times;"><i><br /></i></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgs8UYrUnaa8lBe-vB3z873AFvHr7OWs7uNR4lIZt8NhOYiWD4xYE6za25hH2MvNvlamzurkcZi1T7YG3kmUOI7Iq3Nr0uQPjhSV_D9t7KFUum4jmMzv9VA1Wl39sK3eoTyuyoFoAvYTZ827Ok3W6OXSm8nswOJXFqhmr49ToToE_T3F_iEE8CsfoCb7Q/s1413/NIS-Special-Agent-Credential-1974.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1413" data-original-width="1113" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgs8UYrUnaa8lBe-vB3z873AFvHr7OWs7uNR4lIZt8NhOYiWD4xYE6za25hH2MvNvlamzurkcZi1T7YG3kmUOI7Iq3Nr0uQPjhSV_D9t7KFUum4jmMzv9VA1Wl39sK3eoTyuyoFoAvYTZ827Ok3W6OXSm8nswOJXFqhmr49ToToE_T3F_iEE8CsfoCb7Q/s320/NIS-Special-Agent-Credential-1974.jpg" width="252" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/0CoPly8ZiGU" width="320" youtube-src-id="0CoPly8ZiGU"></iframe></span></div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /> </span><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />Arnhemjimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01794722964883335445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2956713848009971988.post-67431782335176559272022-09-25T08:54:00.017-07:002023-05-06T14:56:49.954-07:00W. Britains Ltd. potential recreation of the Coronation of King Charles III<p><span style="font-family: times;"> Given the consolidation (implosion) of Great Britain’s Armed Forces, and the succession of multiple owner’s of W. Britains Ltd., it is highly improbable that unlike in 1953 (Queen Elizabeth II’s Coronation), there will be a comparable recreation of King Charles III’s, ceremonies, by any toy soldier manufacturer, including Britains.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">For the fortunate, but rapidly dwindling, number of old Britains toy soldiers (made < 1966) collectors, the author has researched and compiled a list of sets (w/numbers) which would be accurately representative of the participants in the forthcoming historical event. It has already been officially stated that it will occur Saturday, May 6, 2023, and will be shorter, more inclusive, and less expensive than previous coronations. That being the case, a toy soldier replication may be more achievable than thought (if you have the sets). Personally was shocked at how few the number of applicable sets. However, while several are relatively common, quite a few are very rare.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">The Life Guards, No. 1<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">The Royal Horse Guards, No. 2<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">Royal Marines, marching at the slope, No. 35<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">Full Band of the Coldstream Guards, marching No. 37<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">King’s Troop, Royal Horse Artillery, No. 39<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">Scots Guards, marching at the slope, No. 75</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">Coronation Chair and Stone of Scone, No. 86D</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">Band of the Life Guards, No. 101</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">Gurkhas, No.197</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">General Staff Officers, Review Order, No. 201 <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">The King’s Body Guard of the Yeomen of the Guard, No. 1257<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">Band of the Royal Marines, No. 1291 (2153, 2115)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">The State Coach, No. 1470<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">Attendant’s to the State Coach, Footmen, outriders and Yeomen of the Guard, No. 1475 (9302)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">Coldstream Guards, Marching at the slope, No. 1515<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">Band of the Royal Air Force, No. 1527 (2116)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">Royal Canadian Mounted Police, dismounted, No.1554</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">The Changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace, No. 1555<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, Review Order, marching at the slope, No. 1633</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">Drum and Pipe Band of the Scots Guards, No. 1722<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">The Life Guards, mounted and foot sentries, No. 2029</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Australian Infantry Pattern 1948 Pattern Blue Ceremonial Dress, at slope arms, No. 2030<span style="font-size: x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">The Sovereign’s Standard of Life Guards (Escort), No. 2067<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">Royal Marines, at present arms, No. 2071<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">King’s Royal Rifle Corps, marching at the trail, No. 2072</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">Royal Air Force, marching at the slope, No. 2073</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">King’s Troop, Royal Horse Artillery, at the walk, No. 2077</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">Irish Guards, presenting arms, No. 2078 <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">The Royal Company of Archers the King’s Body Guard for Scotland, No. 2079<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">Royal Navy, marching at the slope, No. 2080</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">The Sovereign’s Escort, Coronation of Queen Elizabeth, No. 2081 (large set)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">Coldstream Guards, at attention, No. 2082<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">Color Party of the Scot Guards, No. 2084</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Rifle Brigade, marching at the trail, No. 2091</span></span></p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Parachute Regiment, marching at the slope, No. 2092</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">Drum and Pipe Band of the Irish Guards, No. 2096 <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">Full Band of the Grenadier Guards, No. 2113<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">The Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms, No. 2149<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">Dependent on how the term “more inclusive” is implemented there may be additional applicable sets.</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">Following are images of several of the sets listed above;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCc7eJrd_w-W07TIxazKehPY7IAQzoVNCk_H6oj7EmIj0l11oEedAPJbPzLloYHZIJ360ybEeVW1nEm6cO-kvRXmn7jBHe_pZuZfA0IEOagvDKzgMJkI2PLZ9zLMTMKVQeJCWhU4xo5C3a9pCllCU1ZG6OEhHi4RxQcSbW9uwAtPUvbeTucsyrbofaxQ/s1024/coach-1-1024x683.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="683" data-original-width="1024" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCc7eJrd_w-W07TIxazKehPY7IAQzoVNCk_H6oj7EmIj0l11oEedAPJbPzLloYHZIJ360ybEeVW1nEm6cO-kvRXmn7jBHe_pZuZfA0IEOagvDKzgMJkI2PLZ9zLMTMKVQeJCWhU4xo5C3a9pCllCU1ZG6OEhHi4RxQcSbW9uwAtPUvbeTucsyrbofaxQ/s320/coach-1-1024x683.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The State Coach, Set No.1470</td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHBz77pFNMWUze2y01GnXctSu3Z0HYUJ8dsWlH6ClY1g4inzOVM7f1vsjiEb1EW3n9YeVbfgakh8PTtcf4SHzidT_hRG13eywVcAW3AoyjuO96ImQeHOrC9o0xODpBUqxEjx_aN-XfOqO5W63XDWwFACG7hcQZsSf8cau-LU_o3UH1uuHVP2lw5OYAQA/s1515/57_df2892a3-628b-49c5-acfc-5570323ea571_1024x1024@2x.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="699" data-original-width="1515" height="148" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHBz77pFNMWUze2y01GnXctSu3Z0HYUJ8dsWlH6ClY1g4inzOVM7f1vsjiEb1EW3n9YeVbfgakh8PTtcf4SHzidT_hRG13eywVcAW3AoyjuO96ImQeHOrC9o0xODpBUqxEjx_aN-XfOqO5W63XDWwFACG7hcQZsSf8cau-LU_o3UH1uuHVP2lw5OYAQA/s320/57_df2892a3-628b-49c5-acfc-5570323ea571_1024x1024@2x.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A view of the same set in the box</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy5WS9AfTH-fe_IX2JHZqKtVAVIWjW7g0EJjCFGuMlngSRFoQIDJaSnwFfrkF9coBQKufCEaaliqtwNpEA6-EipBwYS6OEo9faloJd9b3RDwS6MpUh57iK8vFdwEqaRHRx2U24hoCrfOEg6-gG714MKYiWIkfD3Euf-JAX1vvmbfJAUoIZR-0EmobMiQ/s4000/H4200-L288482637_original.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2151" data-original-width="4000" height="172" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy5WS9AfTH-fe_IX2JHZqKtVAVIWjW7g0EJjCFGuMlngSRFoQIDJaSnwFfrkF9coBQKufCEaaliqtwNpEA6-EipBwYS6OEo9faloJd9b3RDwS6MpUh57iK8vFdwEqaRHRx2U24hoCrfOEg6-gG714MKYiWIkfD3Euf-JAX1vvmbfJAUoIZR-0EmobMiQ/s320/H4200-L288482637_original.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another view of the same set displayed by the box</td></tr></tbody></table></div></div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMJpGWwTL1CYTD56iXDeZiLdv6OOAkAZoddCeX9T0dcJjqwyCScuwRQZik6tk8TEHtdEdVophIyblAAcnoRkGa0wfWzbE2BrzcQBEZmX2Ee1i9zSmMkYiEoQ_fEGGLK5OoZPwYfIaVhf3a_zcTZomfxOHpkcRmHpTqoKpkfOmYi2MUfrYZy4pGlLrZ0Q/s1600/BRITAINS-LEAD-No-86D-CORONATION-CHAIR-STONE-OF-SCONE-1937-ENGLAND-174896340219.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1320" data-original-width="1600" height="264" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMJpGWwTL1CYTD56iXDeZiLdv6OOAkAZoddCeX9T0dcJjqwyCScuwRQZik6tk8TEHtdEdVophIyblAAcnoRkGa0wfWzbE2BrzcQBEZmX2Ee1i9zSmMkYiEoQ_fEGGLK5OoZPwYfIaVhf3a_zcTZomfxOHpkcRmHpTqoKpkfOmYi2MUfrYZy4pGlLrZ0Q/s320/BRITAINS-LEAD-No-86D-CORONATION-CHAIR-STONE-OF-SCONE-1937-ENGLAND-174896340219.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Coronation Chair and Stone of Scone, Set No. 86 D</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix_Pgcc1AaTLGwaLOvVbYkQ5S78z4F55zVuMGO8Kekxfa1HNYD1ZA3roVqb8tsoPTYgJLj5X5WF5lgZRugdf4E7KeEdIU4sVeo0b4KLhHkuIcJdo7Fbpen6X3SwVPI3fDTAIYElH7sNwU8pxsOKZADE3rTl7vywNgNdHEcKXBKxaylFuRlv4B0ncN5kA/s1023/9286_1335478223_1.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="685" data-original-width="1023" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix_Pgcc1AaTLGwaLOvVbYkQ5S78z4F55zVuMGO8Kekxfa1HNYD1ZA3roVqb8tsoPTYgJLj5X5WF5lgZRugdf4E7KeEdIU4sVeo0b4KLhHkuIcJdo7Fbpen6X3SwVPI3fDTAIYElH7sNwU8pxsOKZADE3rTl7vywNgNdHEcKXBKxaylFuRlv4B0ncN5kA/s320/9286_1335478223_1.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Yeomen of the Guard "Beefeaters", <br />Set No. 1257</td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTfylnrFNSN0an8zoE0eMaFGWbQcfVjxGvIXKp_j5eXxGHEJ-D0lZrQ2HjbzKo09znbXolNSSvJG7-lairVbvAOnSlCRzVOnNNm-oBAoQlwvvlT9JAqz3cjBHU75SJORLNxT0DdBrJWSyk7S52NEzL-NUOQ9LPSODGIvyitO4WOjr1T7sDebv0YY-_jw/s1000/4132471dfaff6048b9283b2d97f1baf8.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="436" data-original-width="1000" height="140" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTfylnrFNSN0an8zoE0eMaFGWbQcfVjxGvIXKp_j5eXxGHEJ-D0lZrQ2HjbzKo09znbXolNSSvJG7-lairVbvAOnSlCRzVOnNNm-oBAoQlwvvlT9JAqz3cjBHU75SJORLNxT0DdBrJWSyk7S52NEzL-NUOQ9LPSODGIvyitO4WOjr1T7sDebv0YY-_jw/s320/4132471dfaff6048b9283b2d97f1baf8.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Band of the Royal Marines, Set No. 1291</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSsuI8dnwd58x--TYoKpg9NN5YLVHqaW1b7NbzAGrWtU_wLF7Ra7fUZYpzQhoTQY4kEfcQ-tnGtI1iSXR053qglzmIQu2MArvlhBEaRHnlPHmjhyfi2_YrDbRib8oUOtahYX7E96Xx75zsMxqQJo5iPv_81emdmmp5-AwFypI-HkBScvT9UV-oQVQvOA/s648/WBritain-Toy-Soldiers-The-Royal-Company-Of.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="486" data-original-width="648" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSsuI8dnwd58x--TYoKpg9NN5YLVHqaW1b7NbzAGrWtU_wLF7Ra7fUZYpzQhoTQY4kEfcQ-tnGtI1iSXR053qglzmIQu2MArvlhBEaRHnlPHmjhyfi2_YrDbRib8oUOtahYX7E96Xx75zsMxqQJo5iPv_81emdmmp5-AwFypI-HkBScvT9UV-oQVQvOA/s320/WBritain-Toy-Soldiers-The-Royal-Company-Of.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Royal Company of Archers, Set No. 2079</td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxqKJ1knyD5pP3ySQHWnViYTHtI-92RgulWYhAUHCJhbYXipT3XPyEQlSpQmHklN-9jyj8Ph5GrgWH1N3pgqrOCIi5e9WLCcNLF17nzbYq3ANq_l-YFvBitP9y2gcd8d-jqwhgkyvPwUhqs-T5RZr1rtk3j5QYNKOOjsomNjqTvP0kDP0DFTaUAJfkcQ/s1374/s-l1600-1.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="904" data-original-width="1374" height="211" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxqKJ1knyD5pP3ySQHWnViYTHtI-92RgulWYhAUHCJhbYXipT3XPyEQlSpQmHklN-9jyj8Ph5GrgWH1N3pgqrOCIi5e9WLCcNLF17nzbYq3ANq_l-YFvBitP9y2gcd8d-jqwhgkyvPwUhqs-T5RZr1rtk3j5QYNKOOjsomNjqTvP0kDP0DFTaUAJfkcQ/s320/s-l1600-1.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Honorable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms,<br />Set No. 2149</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbRKeGBC8WxKGkDc7mgHdwOM8k0eGOW8KRVRGQCLTqSkIVmcNMhtRGK4tY1J2IDYqooDuRafC22gLgcfV3MHQJEId4lRGaGUWlLjeVc76hIjwisxLFgBMWaMGJiJmu2kc_85woToRfiaDnrewLfPPfe_ym1zoiYADCR-C1vCKYftjITLVMU6iqQqQwTw/s1600/81388353_1_x.webp" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1196" data-original-width="1600" height="239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbRKeGBC8WxKGkDc7mgHdwOM8k0eGOW8KRVRGQCLTqSkIVmcNMhtRGK4tY1J2IDYqooDuRafC22gLgcfV3MHQJEId4lRGaGUWlLjeVc76hIjwisxLFgBMWaMGJiJmu2kc_85woToRfiaDnrewLfPPfe_ym1zoiYADCR-C1vCKYftjITLVMU6iqQqQwTw/s320/81388353_1_x.webp" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Sovereign's Standard (Escort), Set No. 2067</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTu080EF2qcfIyt9AVrgklAez1XBGEp7C_7VkM77T97tIMeisaNgUEoFOA5ip_9vAl8fck6vU95AQg5BIkiniY-UNrfqpReyiiCNBkiasIBg4qv94KG1wHqRekJpRH2nesEelyCweUXVZT1P6wiOt7kTZaKajcC7V1MPtHYOUk4tWt1_H4E3eymSI3_w/s1547/57_56634d35-d517-4575-bba9-d1c07a2bdb6f_1024x1024@2x.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="341" data-original-width="1547" height="71" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTu080EF2qcfIyt9AVrgklAez1XBGEp7C_7VkM77T97tIMeisaNgUEoFOA5ip_9vAl8fck6vU95AQg5BIkiniY-UNrfqpReyiiCNBkiasIBg4qv94KG1wHqRekJpRH2nesEelyCweUXVZT1P6wiOt7kTZaKajcC7V1MPtHYOUk4tWt1_H4E3eymSI3_w/s320/57_56634d35-d517-4575-bba9-d1c07a2bdb6f_1024x1024@2x.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Life Guards, Set No. 1</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF3972AzSKShGVOIKSUNHREKmpUkYad1HXRjTc9Lbe0EWGg0ePbHEWiea5pPRw8yZHlFICgMN1VRi41idaHsHIWs61qTqXDT3SUhLUELxDzrdNmunIL4u838Z835nKzhaU563j1GHm8tWr-o5y7gJVAlBj3aTsYuGaOcBI2Fea4_msmVg2l2rDgZfzgA/s1543/57_db08ccdc-67f9-43d0-acea-3a7e8e8187b6_1024x1024@2x.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="349" data-original-width="1543" height="72" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF3972AzSKShGVOIKSUNHREKmpUkYad1HXRjTc9Lbe0EWGg0ePbHEWiea5pPRw8yZHlFICgMN1VRi41idaHsHIWs61qTqXDT3SUhLUELxDzrdNmunIL4u838Z835nKzhaU563j1GHm8tWr-o5y7gJVAlBj3aTsYuGaOcBI2Fea4_msmVg2l2rDgZfzgA/s320/57_db08ccdc-67f9-43d0-acea-3a7e8e8187b6_1024x1024@2x.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Royal Horse Guards, Set No. 2</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />Arnhemjimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01794722964883335445noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2956713848009971988.post-51691754989045922192022-08-26T09:05:00.028-07:002022-12-08T12:42:36.865-08:00Secret Soviet Maps of Seattle circa 1970's<p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">The summer of 1978 I spent in Seattle, WA with my family at Honeywell MSC (Marine Systems Center) in Ballard. In parallel, I maintained my Naval Reserve Intelligence affiliation, attending meetings with Naval Reserve Intelligence Unit 13-1-1, which drilled at NAS Seattle/Sand Point.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">My activities at Honeywell involved “black programs” with the CIA under an umbrella of contracts which were known collectively as HARP (Honeywell Advanced Research Project). In addition Honeywell had a significant role in the CIA’s Operation Azorian (aka Project Jennifer).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">C. Richard “Dick” Abbey (Honeywell Program Manager) and Hal Clark (Project Engineer), and Hank Van Calcar played significant parts in this program. Others included Pat O'Connell, Curt Rosell, and Larry Armbruster. (The author's apologies for any omissions). See: </span><a href="https://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2020/05/when-is-harp-is-not-refinance-of-your.html" style="color: #954f72; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">https://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2020/05/when-is-harp-is-not-refinance-of-your.html</span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">As a brief segue, at one of my navy reserve drill weekends I had the unique privilege of meeting CDR Jack "Blackjack" Neuman, USN (Rtd). I don't recall the exact circumstances, but he must have been a fiend of one of the officers in the Seattle unit. Blackjack was a legend. He had retired after 17 years in both diesel and nuclear submarines. He was qualified as both a hard hat and scuba/rebreather diver. He was fluent (speak/read/write) in both German and Russian. Suffices he was an expert on the Soviet Submarine Force. As a hobby he had met, and befriended, most the surviving (at that time) WWII German U-boat commanders. He had been specifically retained under contract as the resident onboard expert by the CIA to direct the identification and evaluation of <u>everything</u> recovered from the K-129. During the course of one of our lunches I related being in Seattle working at Honeywell on a team with Dick Abbey on a HARP project. It suffices that both mutual acquaints and drinks were exchanged.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">The following images are two more contemporary photographs of the MSC facilities.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLrWmFovB_Yaun9vchbkUFdGVF-TNJyd5AsN5MgY-B2uKm_-FuI_Wnb1P0Z2XM5GyThReEwIRLL557ng3Q55HOXjWqzmCFs-RWFZb0EtAEUMuRiI19X_gTSmoJuHFJMTIUuRm9WjGOoXoRhCBVfRR6tiAUCg92DRlyx0fGZl0ASmH4qRTKkvs9gvyrCw/s4275/a79609c72a254bde9401b1ceec07f4b389c96828ccc3e5b7cee6be2a7c54a83c.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2850" data-original-width="4275" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLrWmFovB_Yaun9vchbkUFdGVF-TNJyd5AsN5MgY-B2uKm_-FuI_Wnb1P0Z2XM5GyThReEwIRLL557ng3Q55HOXjWqzmCFs-RWFZb0EtAEUMuRiI19X_gTSmoJuHFJMTIUuRm9WjGOoXoRhCBVfRR6tiAUCg92DRlyx0fGZl0ASmH4qRTKkvs9gvyrCw/s320/a79609c72a254bde9401b1ceec07f4b389c96828ccc3e5b7cee6be2a7c54a83c.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBvxLYNCrEclgbozQ6tEEv5S_2URXu4iP8TlrtwvudmyIX1KR4-j3Az2EMYsVUBWcJASHZG_kVb31UQkY5FAbH6e6RGJETVwWTa24-29iNNwV2yh_4Ik3hdUBuGzs2s1vt4zhiPhj4PeQxLzmLSWy_4adCtuSfg3n-RCEFhDM2pFEs-tx5EKow-FqvQg/s1900/Honeywell%20MSC.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="624" data-original-width="1900" height="105" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBvxLYNCrEclgbozQ6tEEv5S_2URXu4iP8TlrtwvudmyIX1KR4-j3Az2EMYsVUBWcJASHZG_kVb31UQkY5FAbH6e6RGJETVwWTa24-29iNNwV2yh_4Ik3hdUBuGzs2s1vt4zhiPhj4PeQxLzmLSWy_4adCtuSfg3n-RCEFhDM2pFEs-tx5EKow-FqvQg/s320/Honeywell%20MSC.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Although I was active in Naval Intelligence at that same point in time I was not aware of a significant project being maintained by The Miliary Topographic Directorate of the General Staff of the Soviet Army. Obviously it was being conducted under joint auspices with the GRU (</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">Гла́вное разве́дывательное управле́ние, translated, </span><span style="font-family: times;">Glavnoye Razvedyvatelnoye Upravlenie (Organization of the Main Intelligence Administration) of the then Soviet Union.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> In addition I had no need-to-know so would not have been read-in to our awareness, if it existed. It included the compilation and maintenance of more than a million detailed maps of cities and places throughout the world. A series of three (detailed/annotated) maps were specifically generated of the entire Seattle area. The date of the surviving edition is 1976. With the demise of the Soviet Union in 1991, all copies of all the maps were ordered destroyed. Somehow, due to a series of circumstances (see discussion below) at least one set survived, and was acquired by the owners of a bookshop in Riga, Latvia. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span><span style="font-family: times;">Somehow the Seattle Times newspaper had discovered the existence of the maps, and published an article on 2 June 2018. With acknowledgement and gratitude a complete copy of the article follows. In addition access to the URL affords access to other information; </span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span><a href="https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/the-soviets-secret-map-of-seattle-tells-a-lot-about-us/" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="font-family: times;">https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/the-soviets-secret-map-of-seattle-tells-a-lot-about-us/</span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><h1 style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 24pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The Soviets’ secret map of Seattle tells a lot about us <o:p></o:p></span></h1><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">Originally published June 2, 2018 at 6:00 am Updated June 2, 2018 at 3:40 pm</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijqV47R1IxdZZ1H9LrhtvCu7pAwhEr9n6eEktP1oigNaqxn-YNNie-dQjL158j9UbXnzfgUkPIo1jy9OK8KINMeuUPCsLiK0WMVHNnkUof21JmzAMLuZtudiCMgKK6RMIIEIDVKaSJb2jeiUmpNvtilcg2aJK6Bp5RZfzgvZi6yGHKml5O86uS2iimbw/s2048/7074aad6-546a-11e8-9e73-bbeddc6a4482.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: times;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijqV47R1IxdZZ1H9LrhtvCu7pAwhEr9n6eEktP1oigNaqxn-YNNie-dQjL158j9UbXnzfgUkPIo1jy9OK8KINMeuUPCsLiK0WMVHNnkUof21JmzAMLuZtudiCMgKK6RMIIEIDVKaSJb2jeiUmpNvtilcg2aJK6Bp5RZfzgvZi6yGHKml5O86uS2iimbw/s320/7074aad6-546a-11e8-9e73-bbeddc6a4482.webp" width="320" /></span></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span class="u-bold"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span class="u-bold">1 of 3 | </span><span class="3yxgicnhkruiobvfc0qew">Aivars Beldavs, one of the owners of the Jana Seta bookshop in Riga, Latvia, holds a paper copy of the Soviet map of Seattle. The Soviets had Seattle in three different maps, showing North, Central and South Seattle.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="article-deck" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;">During the Cold War years, the Soviets ran a secret, massive program that produced a million maps of cities and places around the world. They were remarkably accurate and contained information not found on local maps — like the “explosive devices” factory in Ballard.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="https://www.seattletimes.com/author/erik-lacitis/" style="color: #954f72;">Erik Lacitis</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span class="p-author" style="font-family: times;">Seattle Times staff reporter</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;">This 1976 map of Seattle is not the kind you would have bought at a gas station.<o:p></o:p></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;">No, <a href="https://s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/mapshow/Seattle2.htm" style="color: #954f72;" target="_blank">this is a secret map</a> put together by the Military Topographic Directorate of the General Staff of the Soviet Army. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.) was fond of terms like “directorate.”<o:p></o:p></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;">Remember, in 1976, we’re still in the Cold War. It’s still the era of the “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bD_ubBlZ-FM" style="color: #954f72;" target="_blank">The Spy Who Came in from the Cold</a>” and “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WA-hZd9RgI0" style="color: #954f72;" target="_blank">From Russia with Love.</a>”<o:p></o:p></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;"><a href="https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/spying-in-seattle-russian-espionage-interest-in-washington-state-stretches-back-long-before-the-1992-opening-of-the-consulate-in-seattle/" style="color: #954f72;">Stories in the news recently</a> are reminders of those days. We close their Russian Consulate in Seattle, citing the risk of spying. The Russians retaliate by booting out 60 American diplomats.<o:p></o:p></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;">This map was part of a massive Cold War effort by the Soviets. Over five decades — beginning with World War II until the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 — it produced more than a million detailed maps of cities and places around the world.<o:p></o:p></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;">That’s the conclusion of John Davies and Alexander Kent, two British map experts. They put together 350 extracts from the maps in a 2017 book, “<a href="https://redatlasbook.com/" style="color: #954f72;" target="_blank">The Red Atlas: How the Soviet Union Secretly Mapped the World.</a>”<o:p></o:p></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;">Thousands of hours of manpower would have been spent on the maps.<o:p></o:p></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;">“They must have been funded to a phenomenal degree,” Davies said in a phone interview from London.<o:p></o:p></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;">You could call the secret 1976 map “the Soviet of Seattle,” <a href="http://depts.washington.edu/labhist/cpproject/" style="color: #954f72;" target="_blank">a not-so-joking reference</a> to the “Soviet of Washington” title reflecting this state’s (meaning Seattle’s) lefty politics as distinguished from the rest of the United States.<o:p></o:p></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;">Besides the Seattle map extract, in the British researchers’ trove are ones of San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Paris, London and other cities.<o:p></o:p></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;">The Seattle map marks one spot, No. 29, on the shores of Salmon Bay in Ballard, as “<a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4453513-Soviet-Salmon-Bay.html" style="color: #954f72;" target="_blank">Explosion mechanisms and radio electronic devices.”</a> An accompanying text says there is a factory there that produces “explosive devices for nuclear arms.”<o:p></o:p></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;">What?<o:p></o:p></p><form></form><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;">No. 29 is placed where 24th Avenue Northwest dead-ends at the bay, now the location of the Stimson Marina.<o:p></o:p></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;">What did the Soviets know?<o:p></o:p></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;">Tom Bayley, president of C.D. Stimson, has a guess.<o:p></o:p></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;">“The Honeywell marine division pretty much occupied that whole property back in the day,” he says. “Who knows what they were building?”<o:p></o:p></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;">A May 4, 1983, Seattle Times story about <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4453516-Soviet-Map-Honeywell.html" style="color: #954f72;" target="_blank">Honeywell Marine Systems Division</a> moving from Ballard to the Mukilteo area says the company is a prime contractor for the U.S. Navy’s lightweight torpedoes, working on homing systems. The work was important enough that the facility had “to maintain security,” the story says.<o:p></o:p></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;">(Author’s note: At that time Honeywell MSD manufactured the Torpedo, Mk46 Mod0. In addition to delivery from surface ship, aircraft, or helicopter, it was the payload of the CAPTOR (Encapsulated Torpedo) Mk60 mine. The author personally worked on tactical deployment analyses for CAPTOR.)<o:p></o:p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVkhoJXDOdOIRurc5S2H-hagbjEe05eIk4oZDjo6IUYz2NerwMUFz7vz-b3mpAHUXYQJ0lsuZqXYJA2pP5up8kSCCSe4n2KryLHC0danCh-G3Xn097kNThCLLDXp64je6d6jX5XqGxlmfVD5xIyO0U8qs1NTdM0XlZ8dmE-Yuyza1iqADg-VPRSlYBmA/s640/0-1.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVkhoJXDOdOIRurc5S2H-hagbjEe05eIk4oZDjo6IUYz2NerwMUFz7vz-b3mpAHUXYQJ0lsuZqXYJA2pP5up8kSCCSe4n2KryLHC0danCh-G3Xn097kNThCLLDXp64je6d6jX5XqGxlmfVD5xIyO0U8qs1NTdM0XlZ8dmE-Yuyza1iqADg-VPRSlYBmA/s320/0-1.jpg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The author standing by a CAPTOR Mk60 <br />mine at U.S. Naval Undersea Museum, Keyport, WA</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOUSpLyKRgIL5q-WC-ffJ6E2KsTl0RMbrQbIIyRq8FGnqJ1XFByGaxxPRUAFd-dinNAbbr1yiDw4-Hn6wznHAJAOM3h6Q8ZQU2abeDfSDN74B5eIeyUsqnH_vxheDLaxgBo_DCgufItIMChBnoAIkKMYkJiNPDHyrKEGvrY3HFFc0YaM8J6HvKD8NwAA/s1600/Mk.60_Captor.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="626" data-original-width="1600" height="125" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOUSpLyKRgIL5q-WC-ffJ6E2KsTl0RMbrQbIIyRq8FGnqJ1XFByGaxxPRUAFd-dinNAbbr1yiDw4-Hn6wznHAJAOM3h6Q8ZQU2abeDfSDN74B5eIeyUsqnH_vxheDLaxgBo_DCgufItIMChBnoAIkKMYkJiNPDHyrKEGvrY3HFFc0YaM8J6HvKD8NwAA/s320/Mk.60_Captor.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another view of the CAPTOR Mk60 mine</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixdrMuBvnfDWRLRsBJBpQqe19Y87lEN7tIlrf2qBoUC1S1HmXsto8pIC0VkS2aKQcVjv4JbUYdnSSTdmKPVvGSLlcx1uQwjgjxWXQeezP-gTOYyTrFDxXcMb7FRnkK-6JgbJR09F_G4-L4m_8hyxUdAL67G4wHVtefiymRoCTSLjELlkJm-dTkp5eA7g/s598/torpedo_comp.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="310" data-original-width="598" height="166" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixdrMuBvnfDWRLRsBJBpQqe19Y87lEN7tIlrf2qBoUC1S1HmXsto8pIC0VkS2aKQcVjv4JbUYdnSSTdmKPVvGSLlcx1uQwjgjxWXQeezP-gTOYyTrFDxXcMb7FRnkK-6JgbJR09F_G4-L4m_8hyxUdAL67G4wHVtefiymRoCTSLjELlkJm-dTkp5eA7g/s320/torpedo_comp.gif" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: left;">Then there is the astonishing </span><a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4453521-Soviet-Map-Bellevue.html" style="color: #954f72; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: left;" target="_blank">No. 26 on the Bellevue portion of the map</a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: left;">, bounded by Bellevue Way Northeast to the west, Northeast Sixth Street to the north, 108th Avenue Northeast to the east, and Northeast Fourth Street to the south.</span></div><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;">It’s abbreviated as “atom,” most likely an adjective, which, depending on the noun it went with, could stand for factory, lab or plant, explains Professor Galya Diment, a native Russian speaker with the University of Washington’s Slavic Languages & Literatures department.<o:p></o:p></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;">She translated portions of the “spravka,” text accompanying the map. It says No. 26 is a “nuclear factory which produces nuclear fuel.”<o:p></o:p></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;">Wait a minute.<o:p></o:p></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;">Right smack in Bellevue?<o:p></o:p></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;">Not according to city of Bellevue records. Spokeswoman Lenka Wright responds, “Planning and Community Development staff were unable to discover anything in the records available … that suggest these sites by the 1970s were anything but property owned by Puget Western, the real estate arm of Puget Power (now known as Puget Sound Energy)<o:p></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0SSS1pyCGRwTyrIhJI3USy80FffXsv8z7FEkJfT1xkihRIR8cA9o3DRa9YPrE0RgFnEjOB5PHBJA7zf00JFxwEdTs_NP8hszja0oBQDI3dd4-AQJNeuyL11Sf5yX5YqrXch0j6SaAt5iDMacxRVckobS95vJrbLsheqPNnb0qoRC5DBR3rzHLxXzO3Q/s3058/b2fc5970-522c-11e8-a69c-352596056db2.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3058" data-original-width="2048" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0SSS1pyCGRwTyrIhJI3USy80FffXsv8z7FEkJfT1xkihRIR8cA9o3DRa9YPrE0RgFnEjOB5PHBJA7zf00JFxwEdTs_NP8hszja0oBQDI3dd4-AQJNeuyL11Sf5yX5YqrXch0j6SaAt5iDMacxRVckobS95vJrbLsheqPNnb0qoRC5DBR3rzHLxXzO3Q/s320/b2fc5970-522c-11e8-a69c-352596056db2.webp" width="214" /></a></div><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;">(After this story was posted, reader Ed McDonald wrote that he used to work in sales for a high-tech company in the 1970s. “If I recall correctly, Exxon Nuclear had operations at Hanford, with offices in Bellevue where your article mentions . . . I called on them in both cities. I think the Soviet map had it nailed.”<o:p></o:p></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;">A relatively current domestically produced aerial photograph of the exact same area for direct comparison.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuW87P33gCPz4Agcoh9m3OH0BrQK2BnYtRWiuBnwsBqSMO1SLL3rkC7b6KZmGfmt00yT5Hit5zw7qAGoD9FdbPUWu1Jkt5cdI2eMgmALadWR554wdNvggmHWtY99FxIUHg2UKmoka-MXptLOwSYJ8CNbtnVKRs9Y9iGXtvRP6_cjt4qAlCtzUy7Ot1vw/s960/fe267740eddac143c331ba5935432dd3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="960" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuW87P33gCPz4Agcoh9m3OH0BrQK2BnYtRWiuBnwsBqSMO1SLL3rkC7b6KZmGfmt00yT5Hit5zw7qAGoD9FdbPUWu1Jkt5cdI2eMgmALadWR554wdNvggmHWtY99FxIUHg2UKmoka-MXptLOwSYJ8CNbtnVKRs9Y9iGXtvRP6_cjt4qAlCtzUy7Ot1vw/s320/fe267740eddac143c331ba5935432dd3.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;">(<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1976/03/14/archives/exxons-innovative-little-offshoots-the-offshoots-of-exxon.html" style="color: #954f72;" target="_blank">An article in The New York Times</a> from March 14, 1976, states, “Exxon Nuclear, located in Bellevue, Wash., is attempting to become this nation’s first commercial supplier of a complete range of nuclear fuel products and services necessary to operate atomic reactor.”)<o:p></o:p></p><h2 style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Aided by spy satellites, and picnics<o:p></o:p></span></h2><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;">Davies says the Soviet mapmakers did make some mistakes — misnamed roads, putting in nonexisting subway sections.<o:p></o:p></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;">But he says they were also remarkably accurate, as was the case with pretty much everything on the Seattle map.<o:p></o:p></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;">Davies says he’s been contacted by individuals involved in military operations in Afghanistan. In some cases, the vastly more comprehensive Soviet maps were used by the U.S. in its 2001 invasion.<o:p></o:p></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;">For the overall mapping project, Davies says, the Soviet researchers “must have acquired all kinds of documentation — street directories, trade documentation.” They used U.S. Geological Survey maps but then added their own information. For Seattle, water depths for Elliott Bay were not shown on USGS mapping but they were on the Soviet map. Somehow, the Soviets determined the water depths — and they were also different from those on NOAA charts.<o:p></o:p></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;">By 1962, the Soviets were using imagery from their <a href="http://www2.isunet.edu/index2.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_view&gid=756&Itemid=256" style="color: #954f72;" target="_blank">Zenit spy satellites</a>. The Soviet maps then could place new roads and housing developments that were yet to be included in local maps.<o:p></o:p></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;">The TV series “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIn_MH8_2ig" style="color: #954f72;" target="_blank">The Americans</a>,” about KGB officers posing as an American married couple, raises the possibility that the Soviets had spies getting information for the maps.<o:p></o:p></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;">Yes, it happened, says Davies.<o:p></o:p></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;">The online publication Pravda Report quotes a retired Swedish secret-police chief as saying that Soviet agents would tour Sweden to check on such map items as the load capacity of bridges and the distance between trees.<o:p></o:p></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;">The Soviets arranged “picnics in the places of strategic interest, they would be very friendly and sociable to the local population,” says the story.<o:p></o:p></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;">Unfortunately for one Soviet spy, his conversation with a local about specific buried cables was overheard by a Swedish spy who happened to be on the beach, too, says the story.<o:p></o:p></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;">For Seattle, plenty was compiled, by whatever means.<o:p></o:p></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;">There were 134 “objects of interest” listed, including 52 “factories, industrial plants, commercial premises,” with their products or purpose.<o:p></o:p></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;">No. 123 was labeled “The Center for Space Exploration” in Kent. It’s Boeing 18-61 Building, used primarily for Department of Defense projects.<o:p></o:p></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;">No. 51 in Redmond was identified as “the rocket factory and the science research center develop and produce engines for rockets.” That’s Aerojet Rocketdyne, which calls itself “an innovative company delivering solutions that create value for its customers in the aerospace and defense markets.”<o:p></o:p></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;">The map doesn’t just list objects that would be construed as of military use.<o:p></o:p></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;">No. 9 is the “People’s National Bank of Washington” in downtown Seattle.<o:p></o:p></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;">No. 113 is “TV Station KTNT,” now KSTW.<o:p></o:p></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;">No. 12 is simply “Paper and metal containers.”<o:p></o:p></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;">No. 7 is the “Main Post Office.”<o:p></o:p></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;">Then there is No. 79, offices for the Republican Party here. In Soviet parlance, it is “Department of the Central Committee of the Republican Party.” They don’t bother to list the offices for the local Democrats.<o:p></o:p></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;">Was the purpose for the maps to prepare for a military invasion?<o:p></o:p></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;">The maps “don’t have bombing targets,” says Davies. “In a nuclear war, what’s the point of mapping everything if you’re going to bomb it?<o:p></o:p></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;">“The only possible underlying assumption is that they’d need (the maps) when running the city.”<o:p></o:p></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;">The Soviets believed that capitalism would collapse, he says, and communism would be “the only world order.” The maps would help them manage that conversion.<o:p></o:p></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;">Maybe, says Jack Barsky, 68, who was born in East Germany and from 1978 to 1988 was <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-38846022" style="color: #954f72;" target="_blank">an agent in the U.S. for the KGB</a>.<o:p></o:p></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;">He now lives in the Atlanta area, has been a guest on numerous TV news shows and <a href="https://jackbarsky.com/" style="color: #954f72;" target="_blank">takes his story around the country</a>.<o:p></o:p></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;">Barsky says he had never known about the secret maps, although he wishes the KGB had given him some.<o:p></o:p></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;">“My personal experience is that the KGB knew squat about Chicago in 1978 (where he first landed), or else they would have warned me of a place named the South Side,” he says.<o:p></o:p></p><h2 style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Works of art, found by chance<o:p></o:p></span></h2><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;">Davies and his writing partner found the maps by chance.<o:p></o:p></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;">Davies, a retired IT consultant, was working in Riga, Latvia, the former Soviet republic, in the early 2000s when he stopped by Jana Seta, <a href="https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=lv&u=https://www.karsuveikals.lv/en/&prev=search" style="color: #954f72;" target="_blank">a bookshop for maps</a>.<o:p></o:p></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;">One of the men who had started the shop, Avers Zvirbulis, had earlier come across the secret maps.<o:p></o:p></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;">As the Soviet Union collapsed, a couple of Russian officers were told to destroy more than 6,000 tons of maps stored in Latvia.<o:p></o:p></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;">But deals were made.<o:p></o:p></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;">Zvirbulis negotiated to buy 100 tons of the maps, of which only two to three tons survived after kids vandalized and set fire to them, says Davies.<o:p></o:p></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;">That’s still a lot of maps, and “The Red Atlas” authors printed 350 extracts in a painstakingly designed book.<o:p></o:p></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;">The maps are in full color with Cyrillic wording and exquisite details — truly works of art.<o:p></o:p></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;">On the book’s website, Davies says the writers plan to sell prints of the maps soon. For Seattle, there are maps for the <a href="https://s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/mapshow/Seattle1.htm" style="color: #954f72;" target="_blank">north</a>, <a href="https://s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/mapshow/Seattle2.htm" style="color: #954f72;" target="_blank">central</a> and <a href="https://s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/mapshow/Seattle3.htm" style="color: #954f72;" target="_blank">south</a> end. Each of these maps are accessible by clicking on the respective direction.<o:p></o:p></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;">“Of course, in a world of smartphones with GPS and driving apps with voices that tell us which roads to take, and which warn us where there is a traffic jam or a speed camera, paper maps may seem an anachronism,” says Davies.<o:p></o:p></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;">“But their historical significance cannot be denied. And neither can their beauty.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"> <o:p></o:p></p>Arnhemjimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01794722964883335445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2956713848009971988.post-64400974444873775492022-05-09T14:33:00.021-07:002022-06-11T09:06:04.356-07:00The Last of W. Britains Ltd’s Hollow-cast Lead Alloy Big Bands Made<p> <span face="Calibri, sans-serif">In 1956 W. Britains Ltd. introduced Set No. 2110 United States Military Band in Full Dress Uniform. It was a large 25 piece depiction of “Pershing’s Own”, formed on 25 January 1922 by order of General of the Army John J. Pershing.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhX7xiJuuqCMriTFGApVpbhgM7KXlr3P8WhIHqXUYEtr4TTflAbeBr91sbSbz4kV_xcr8U1pWpJWfJxQY6TuBjd3hattaX6ljMhSmFcMIZcCNjf50XhgJyhQvhSxNchR2VMAEfRiV_CV78_X2Kzpbf5ZEvKrY_gDKoPnm_KXwmWozZCguGLKH8PrCJTAg/s1268/shs017275.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1268" data-original-width="650" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhX7xiJuuqCMriTFGApVpbhgM7KXlr3P8WhIHqXUYEtr4TTflAbeBr91sbSbz4kV_xcr8U1pWpJWfJxQY6TuBjd3hattaX6ljMhSmFcMIZcCNjf50XhgJyhQvhSxNchR2VMAEfRiV_CV78_X2Kzpbf5ZEvKrY_gDKoPnm_KXwmWozZCguGLKH8PrCJTAg/s320/shs017275.jpg" width="164" /></a><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="text-align: left;"> </span></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">The uniform portrayed is the short-term dress yellow tunic, introduced in the early 1950’s for only a few years, earning the divisive title “The Lion Tamers”. Note that Britains chose not to give the Drum-Major a black bearskin busby.The set remained in Britains catalog from 1956 to 1959, suffered an unusual hiatus in 1960, with a final encore performance from 1961 to 1963 as Set No. 9478. It was the last large hollowcastt lead alloy band produced and cataloged by Britains.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFEepgxwva5SV92HPPcLNBN8TDoYF2wfTH6MiBNSmXAwu7m3Mj5ccxdqGnfjK5aDyAZkum3J803nrgEh2x8w7I2L0WYNiR18u60GLgLJUs1CNEmAyNzGazRjyMM-8GbTqp35ip_2YbBSd-hVlglvam-oZUVbCOfI8zTHnQ1mX2z8PEc8n1GhLEQTGhFw/s300/uniform-lion-tamer.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="217" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFEepgxwva5SV92HPPcLNBN8TDoYF2wfTH6MiBNSmXAwu7m3Mj5ccxdqGnfjK5aDyAZkum3J803nrgEh2x8w7I2L0WYNiR18u60GLgLJUs1CNEmAyNzGazRjyMM-8GbTqp35ip_2YbBSd-hVlglvam-oZUVbCOfI8zTHnQ1mX2z8PEc8n1GhLEQTGhFw/s1600/uniform-lion-tamer.jpg" width="217" /></a></div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">The example I was recently very fortunately able to acquire was of one of the last produced of Set No. 9478 (circa 1963) U.S. Military Band., effectively mint, still tied to the original tie-card and box. It’s previous owner had a toy soldier shop in Central California, and had retained selected sets when he sold his store. The lower right hand corner of the box had subsequently been badly damaged (fortunately figures and tie-card remaining unscathed) and as a result consigned to a still active toy soldier shop for a ridiculously low asking price of $119.00 USD.!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">Images of three other identical sets, same combination of instruments, but untied and on display.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmglf7vdjiEx9DLpugYTabW19HhJ5XUw17-3diGGWrE7ilEGbEzr2v5yct7pYqSWMSzKnAUEDBCls9AWIx032zB1ffdDchQorB20gEbehN594RaZoaDUayvoR3w1JZEn4-fLrGXQS-gT_UNYjuwvuFJviIbOtdEhgFzSOrgO6kf-63MvE6wiwnCNGwXA/s1509/12-US-Army-Board%20copy.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="830" data-original-width="1509" height="176" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmglf7vdjiEx9DLpugYTabW19HhJ5XUw17-3diGGWrE7ilEGbEzr2v5yct7pYqSWMSzKnAUEDBCls9AWIx032zB1ffdDchQorB20gEbehN594RaZoaDUayvoR3w1JZEn4-fLrGXQS-gT_UNYjuwvuFJviIbOtdEhgFzSOrgO6kf-63MvE6wiwnCNGwXA/s320/12-US-Army-Board%20copy.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWKa6JvD93XHDvpiS5KzzoAHn6icEL5bFTF3YFo47n0oi_DvMkD3h_hXKpQjV_CbqiezpiptJLvt152z9A4AyToQYklMMpsiWnza27dAXoefvoyQOcezXJZ2ODnxbdUqRLfWcAkk3NrFeF7mVJc0wNXttvpjUIp9Tv86YJBvo_IHDwv-Zl6TkfDoidJQ/s2073/1534.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1248" data-original-width="2073" height="193" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWKa6JvD93XHDvpiS5KzzoAHn6icEL5bFTF3YFo47n0oi_DvMkD3h_hXKpQjV_CbqiezpiptJLvt152z9A4AyToQYklMMpsiWnza27dAXoefvoyQOcezXJZ2ODnxbdUqRLfWcAkk3NrFeF7mVJc0wNXttvpjUIp9Tv86YJBvo_IHDwv-Zl6TkfDoidJQ/s320/1534.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRIg9ZUVxrx8kX_L8TqYpAf5LL0TAOjm_R0EjD-rz0aKZO3FPaRtR-iZJF7hGMReYIBn2qc3FeR9dVBXqV2vuZJyopf-FTxz9RmLhM1L6MXPIhOGFXWRVcSQ8YdF5S8krNYPm_Fx3Z6B6buFU063irprP-N_PPIpP7MGFArPplDRSWPLLJx34dca_vNQ/s1600/130461824_1_x.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1217" data-original-width="1600" height="243" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRIg9ZUVxrx8kX_L8TqYpAf5LL0TAOjm_R0EjD-rz0aKZO3FPaRtR-iZJF7hGMReYIBn2qc3FeR9dVBXqV2vuZJyopf-FTxz9RmLhM1L6MXPIhOGFXWRVcSQ8YdF5S8krNYPm_Fx3Z6B6buFU063irprP-N_PPIpP7MGFArPplDRSWPLLJx34dca_vNQ/s320/130461824_1_x.webp" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">Still retaining enough skills to repair and retore the damaged box the author was able to bring it back to close to its original glory. But will allow the reader to be the judge of the veracity of that statement based on the following images. Note that the extremely fragile drum decals had been replaced in the original set by the correct paper labels. Also note small hole punched in box lid (how and why unknown) which has subsequently been filled with wood filler, and touched with same color red paint. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">The following initial images are close-ups of the repair and restoration job followed by a range of photographs of the condition and contents of the rest of the set. 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It is a replica of the regimental drum-major’s baldric of the 92nd Regiment of Foot, The Gordon Highlanders. The only reason so stated is that the seller cited that it is newly manufactured, and was made for a re-enactors group (recreating the regiment), and there is no other provenance claiming otherwise, citing that it had been bespoken for by an identified drum-major, or officially procured by the regiment.</span></p><p><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"> Point of fact as far as I can currently determine, the only way an individual can conclusively differentiate from a well made replica museum grade baldric made in Great Britain by a specialty shop, and an actual genuine regimental baldric, is by a certified document attesting </span>provenance by an individual serving or retired drum-major.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><o:p> </o:p>Why even bother to mention such an obvious and prosaic fact? That reason being, I was curious as to whether like a vast majority of government procured uniform items, there were uniform regulations and/or sealed patterns, or List of Changes (L.O.C.) governing regimental bands drum-major’s baldrics. In the case for example of regimental cap badges, the process is rather laborious.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">Having conducted a reasonably in-depth research of current British MoD regulations, here is what the author has been able to find;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">ARMY DRESS REGULATIONS (ALL RANKS)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">Part 4 – THE INFANTRY<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">REGIMENTAL DRESS REGULATIONS<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">Ministry of Defence<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">PS12(A)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">May 2012<br />Dress Regulations for Bands, Pipes and Drums of the<br />British Army - Regular Army and Territorial Army<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">03.031 Drum Major's Embroidered Shoulder-Belt (or “Sash”), Staff (or “Mace”) and Cane.<br />All of customary patterns. The Embroidered Shoulder-Belt (widely known as the Drum Major’s<br />Sash) is worn over the left shoulder. It is traditionally of cloth of the regimental facing-colour edged with gold lace, generally fitted with two token drumsticks and embellished with Crown and Royal Cypher, regimental insignia, title-scrolls and battle-honour scrolls etc. in wire embroidery, the lower ends edged with gold fringe and joined together.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">(Author’s Note: The specific term Baldric is not used in this document.)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">A second relevant document is;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">THE ROYAL REGIMENT OF SCOTLAND (SCOTS)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">DRESS REGULATIONS PART TWO (Pipes & Drums)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">(Regimental Military Band)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">2<sup>nd</sup> Edition 2019<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">For those readers who might be interested it can be found at; <a href="https://assets.website-files.com/616581824acedbf4bb871e17/61a605526eaf1eb172dbbf08_20190814-SCOTS%20Dress%20Regs%20-%20Part%202.pdf" style="color: #954f72;">https://assets.website-files.com/616581824acedbf4bb871e17/61a605526eaf1eb172dbbf08_20190814-SCOTS%20Dress%20Regs%20-%20Part%202.pdf</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">and contains additional colored images of both uniform orders and baldrics (so named).</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">If anyone has knowledge to the contrary, this author would sincerely appreciate hearing from you in the comments section provided below.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">With full acknowledgement and gratitude expressed to “hagwalther” of the British and Commonwealth Military Badge Forum, he cites the following applicable to A/A and New Metal badges: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">“Basically, CO of Corps/Regt thinks up design of badge and creates a sketch. Sent to War Office/Army Dress Committee to get their input. They may go to Garter King of Arms if they think there may be heraldry issues. If no issues a painting is commissioned and sent to War Office/Army Dress Committee. If OK with painting it is sent to Sovereign for approval who initials the painting. At this stage the badge is officially authorized for issue. Badge samples made after War Office/Army Dress Committee put contract out to badge manufacturers for said samples which are sent to War Office/Army Dress Committee. After the badge samples are OK'ed by the War Office/Army Dress Committee anything from (if I remember) 6 - 16 are held over for attachment to pattern cards/tags. The rest of the samples were binned. The patterns were split into two - Master and Working/Standard. Between 1-2 Master cards and the rest Working/Standard. Later on the cards became tags. Master(s) was held by the Pattern Room and Working/Standards were lent out to manufacturing companies after their name/date/requisition no. was recorded on the rear. When returned the date of return was added. Pattern cards/tags are a <i>guide</i> only and usually related to colour, construction type (lugs/slider) and general design. Many official badges are different to the pattern cards in that they may or may not be mounted items (multi part) and even different in style. Also note makers of samples not always manufacturers of first batch of badges for issue. Patterns could be withdrawn and re-sealed later as units disbanded and later reconstructed hence multiple dates on same pattern card.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">Having actually gone through the analogous process required for adaptation of an official insigne of a United States Navy, ship, squadron or organization, twice while on active duty, I can personally attest to the fact that the latter is a lot easier. See; <a href="http://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2012/03/from-halls-of-old-nassau-to-shores-of_3917.html" style="color: #954f72;">http://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2012/03/from-halls-of-old-nassau-to-shores-of_3917.html</a><span class="MsoHyperlink" style="color: #0563c1; text-decoration: underline;"></span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">The following image is from an official government specifying the form and content of a patten card.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGJ2GVpSdP8PACL4S-kZbHKC-MuUou10HqBWXRpx96Ib6ZTSR89lPR0hvZcI68DtwOmReMmjf7oQIq6UXZgqEDAiJAAkFIh_V5aUSwDrQHATZ3wAkdxWP_Dh9Sykq_BBhQzNR0GK6SAy-OzRkRCp1vXEkVJQaGbgwWlaz6sZ_TxgkcveqANq0fBnKgIA/s800/attachment-4.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: times;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGJ2GVpSdP8PACL4S-kZbHKC-MuUou10HqBWXRpx96Ib6ZTSR89lPR0hvZcI68DtwOmReMmjf7oQIq6UXZgqEDAiJAAkFIh_V5aUSwDrQHATZ3wAkdxWP_Dh9Sykq_BBhQzNR0GK6SAy-OzRkRCp1vXEkVJQaGbgwWlaz6sZ_TxgkcveqANq0fBnKgIA/s320/attachment-4.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"> To the extent of my limited research and current level of knowledge, neither exist. However, by virtue of photographic evidence, custom and tradition do. That was certainly the case with The Gordon Highlanders. While the style and detailed execution of the baldric may have varied, even from individual drum-major to his successor, the basic group of common elements (majority of cases) remains incorporated in sequence from top to bottom;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: times;">The Royal Crown, King's/Queen's</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: times;">The Royal Cipher, i.e., “E II R”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: times;">Pair of miniature silver tipped drumsticks (on either side of)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: times;">The Coat of Arms of Great Britain<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: times;">Full Name of the Regiment<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: times;">The Regimental Cap Badge<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: times;">Any Special Distinctions, i.e., Tiger “India”/Sphinx “Egypt”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: times;">Authorized Battle Honours on individual Scrolls (nominally in order by year of the battle)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: times;"> The following images are of the actual baldric I was able to acquire, followed by a classic photograph of Drum-Major Jeff Harper and Pipe-Major (later Capt) Stewart D. Sampson MBE. Both being last to serve the regiment 1994, as well as other examples of basically the same wore on other drum-majors including 1st Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Prineess Louise's).</span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoE_BHtabJLzCBG_KvPrmA83xHy8p0eykrQkSmMKhRAiBIZoM8VU5G0RW5Z4jFRH3chFD5ojwWeU-wMRk_LQi0RC0dC-LfeOMGQyHV_TbDjGjP_QutTjuwHy6ohtwMAIfi3_VQQAOcK9IeRgKVZfwbx6UHwM5jbe-_X6KRthF0Ly6mw_rg9_7EEqW6Og/s1531/s-l1600-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: times;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1531" data-original-width="600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoE_BHtabJLzCBG_KvPrmA83xHy8p0eykrQkSmMKhRAiBIZoM8VU5G0RW5Z4jFRH3chFD5ojwWeU-wMRk_LQi0RC0dC-LfeOMGQyHV_TbDjGjP_QutTjuwHy6ohtwMAIfi3_VQQAOcK9IeRgKVZfwbx6UHwM5jbe-_X6KRthF0Ly6mw_rg9_7EEqW6Og/s320/s-l1600-1.jpg" width="125" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: times;"> </span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">https://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2019/06/greenwood-ball-connoisseur-military.html</a> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">I’m undertaking this project in an attempt to recover and reconstruct a more complete history of the Firm of Greenwood and Ball, and a complete list of their products.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p>The following is an image of their complete staff.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">Original workers at Spring Village, Horsehay, about 1949-50. Left to right:- Mr. Greenwood (seated), Eleanor Clay (standing behind), Brenda Yarnald, Mrs. Ball (Kathleen's mother), Kathleen Ball, Cynthia Booth (standing) and seated, an American gentleman called Herbert Jackson with Mr. Greenwood's Red Setter dog called Flare.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgD0rVw9b9xzx0Bb09fEGoWgLFdSaXkFcOaQ4zfrWFkkKBGEdMyqwxrJwaBJ41GPyC5naobErn_kGyJKn8JBqtT9sqdZBPMuXhgFXv5KEFKCK8eq0F80nfIq-vh542gQNOt-I82iIBCuAi78VvPt4RsHxk0XrcphTOacFRyvm0XQ8Wm9nRPrD3kJubUPA=s850" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="629" data-original-width="850" height="237" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgD0rVw9b9xzx0Bb09fEGoWgLFdSaXkFcOaQ4zfrWFkkKBGEdMyqwxrJwaBJ41GPyC5naobErn_kGyJKn8JBqtT9sqdZBPMuXhgFXv5KEFKCK8eq0F80nfIq-vh542gQNOt-I82iIBCuAi78VvPt4RsHxk0XrcphTOacFRyvm0XQ8Wm9nRPrD3kJubUPA=s320" width="320" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">Among other listings/catalogues, in 1973 a GREENWOOD AND BALL Catalogue was issued which listed the following series and individual figures. What is not known, for each unit, corps, regiment, etc. how many different uniforms and poses were offered, and were the figures individually numbered? At that time prices started at $40.00 USD. Currently a single cursory page listing (#11) is being offered on e-Bay for GBP 19.99 ($26.40 USD). Apologies, this is the best available image.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgBJpxugzWR63eqPHWW62e35Yykw-eQi9g-pGy1Cnp7WyNy9dhxHFGpVjV9t48HiRilGzNGBz1Ix-rDEV_U5UySRp4GHtvOQ3mJSRXpjryvSu3v4OpO03Pui_vjSxdM7oPUYhrKvv-gCxpmG-D9aq_JmupBfJ8Bi3tsWrYm8gON7Nj9lMADPnQEmIMMcA=s964" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="964" data-original-width="799" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgBJpxugzWR63eqPHWW62e35Yykw-eQi9g-pGy1Cnp7WyNy9dhxHFGpVjV9t48HiRilGzNGBz1Ix-rDEV_U5UySRp4GHtvOQ3mJSRXpjryvSu3v4OpO03Pui_vjSxdM7oPUYhrKvv-gCxpmG-D9aq_JmupBfJ8Bi3tsWrYm8gON7Nj9lMADPnQEmIMMcA=s320" width="265" /></a></div><div><br /></div>Another later listing is provided in the following image.<div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiMuNmF6Zy2M2509QhWYfrI2wPt2K2hepuA611xtaDXZTUSQWI9DIHiRPSqEaojnATLLmhOkDoCMasNmpT6Dg7PZ94Ay4ehszsAj_uPFX8slChVXr0w8pdu3wCMH_3WqyibMbI0jpzQVRaS64o4SzdQinC849oN3eXRqvs4rSm0bC9HTwa6BM7paAAmSw=s1600" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1057" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiMuNmF6Zy2M2509QhWYfrI2wPt2K2hepuA611xtaDXZTUSQWI9DIHiRPSqEaojnATLLmhOkDoCMasNmpT6Dg7PZ94Ay4ehszsAj_uPFX8slChVXr0w8pdu3wCMH_3WqyibMbI0jpzQVRaS64o4SzdQinC849oN3eXRqvs4rSm0bC9HTwa6BM7paAAmSw=s320" width="211" /></a></div><div><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">The following is an initial, and will be a continuing attempt to research and identify a comprehensive list of figures produced. Although John Greenwood worked in other scales, this list is of 32nd scale (i.e. 54mm or 2 1/4 in.). From 1938 to1966 He, Ms. Kathleen Ball, and their staff, produced 500 different figures in that scale. The total quantity of figures produced is unknown to the author. Additional figures which have been added below are from those found from other sources, or which the author has physically seen. Reader additions and corrections are both solicited and sincerely appreciated.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">ALL BRITISH ARMY – 1914<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">Cavalry Regiments<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">The Life Guards<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">The Horse Guards<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">1<sup>st</sup> Royal Dragoons<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">2nd Dragoons (Royal Scots Greys), Officer, Review order<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Times;">2nd Dragoons (Royal Scots Greys),</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Times;"> <span style="background-color: white;">Officer, Patrol Blues</span></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Times;"><span style="background-color: white;">6th Inniskilling Dragoons</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">7th Dragoon Guards</span><span style="color: #333333;"> <span style="background-color: white;">Officer, Review Order</span></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="background-color: white;">Yorkshire Dragoons</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Royal Horse Artillery, Officer, Review Order</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Royal Engineers, Officer, Review Order</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">Hussar Regiments<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">11th Hussars (Prince Albert's Own), Officer, Review Order<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">13th Hussars, Officer, Review Order<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">14th (King's) Hussars</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Active Service 1914</span><span style="color: #333333;"> <span style="background-color: white;">British Cavalry Officer </span></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">Lancer Regiments<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">9<sup>th</sup> Queen’s Own Royal Lancers<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">16<sup>th</sup>/5<sup>th</sup> Lancers<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">17<sup>th</sup> Lancers, (Duke of Cambridge’s Own), <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Officer, Review Order</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">17<sup>th</sup>/21<sup>st</sup> Lancers<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">21st Lancers (Empress of India's), Officer, Review Order</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span> <span> <span> Royal Tank Regiment, Officer, Review Order</span></span></span><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"> <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">Infantry Regiments<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">Grenadier Guards<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">Welsh Guards (1915)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">Coldstream Guards<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">Irish Guards<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">Scots Guards<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">Royal Scots<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">1st Regiment of Foot (The Royal Scots)</span><span style="color: #333333;"> <span style="background-color: white;">Officer, circa 1956</span></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">King's Own Scottish Borderers<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">Royal Scots Fusiliers<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">Cameronians<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">Highland Light Infantry<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">Blackwatch (2 known different figures)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">Cameron Highlanders (5 known different figures) <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;">Seaforth Highlanders<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">Gordon Highlanders <o:p></o:p>(3 known different figures)</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders (3 known different figures)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">24th South Wales Borderers, Officer, Review Order<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Northhamptonshire, Officer</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">City of London (Rough Rider)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Royal East Kent Regiment (The Buffs), Officer, Review Order</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, Officer, Review Order<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">The Parachute Regiment, Officer, Service Dress<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Royal Irish Rifles, Officer, Review Order<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Line Infantry Officer, Review Order<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Active Service 1914</span><span style="color: #333333;"> <span style="background-color: white;">British Infantry Officer</span></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p>Yeomanry Regiments</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">The Leicestershire Yeomanry (Prince Albert's Own Officer, Review Order)</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> British </o:p>Indian Army</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">H.H. Sir Partap Singh Bahadur, Review Order</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">3rd Indian Cavalry<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">5th Indian Cavalry<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">11th King Edward's Own Lancers (Probyn's<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">Horse)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">5<sup>th</sup> Cavalry<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">16th Cavalry<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">17th Cavalry<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">1st Hyderabad Lancers, Officer, Review Order</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">18th King George's Own Lancers<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">27th Madras Light Cavalry, Officer, Review Order</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">29th Lancers (Deccan Horse), Risaldar, Review Order<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">30th Lancers (Gordon’s Horse), Officer, Review Order</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">37th Lancers (Baluch Horse), Risaldar <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">1<sup>st</sup> Duke of York’s Own Cavalry (Skinners Horse)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">6th Punjabs, Riseldar</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">21st Punjabs, Riseldar</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">27<sup>th</sup> Punjabi Infantry, Risaldar<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">51st Sikhs, Risaldar, Review Order</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">130th Baluch Regiment, Risaldar, Review Order</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">59th Scinde Rifles, Officer<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">33rd Punjab Rifles,</span><span style="color: #333333;"> <span style="background-color: white;">Officer, Review Order</span></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">43rd Erinpurra Irregular Force Indian Army, Risaldar<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">Governors Body Guards<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Governor General's Bodyguard Madras, Officer, Review Order</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p>Imperial Service Troops</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Mysore Transport Corps, Officer, Review Order</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p>GERMAN ARMED FORCES – WORLD WAR II (1936 to 1945) </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">Army (Wehrmacht)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span> </span>Officer, Parade Dress (2 known different figures)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span> Officer, General, Parade Dress</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span><span> Officer, Panzer Corps, Battledress</span><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">Air Force (Luftwaffe)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span> German </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">Fallschirmjäger</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 13.524px;"> </span><span>(Paratrooper), </span>Reading Map</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">Navy (Kriegsmarine)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">Waffen-SS<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">The following image is an assortment of German Army figures 1910 - 1945</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj8bTWl8BMGhHwUpdWuX4Kd97bYYL73PhkZECi9XYwnAGzsE50WCkAJ8Yw_uPKTioxX5ZxS6SIANoNx8v7-ipY9wnDPx_fidRMCzour6WqxPHqqWL9i_LwJvSPqVWI92gvZPMo8AVGpGnaMcLB3D0sr2uxx3Ya_c71cG3VxqhpwP_VfFEVKaecBu_huLQ=s864" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="834" data-original-width="864" height="309" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj8bTWl8BMGhHwUpdWuX4Kd97bYYL73PhkZECi9XYwnAGzsE50WCkAJ8Yw_uPKTioxX5ZxS6SIANoNx8v7-ipY9wnDPx_fidRMCzour6WqxPHqqWL9i_LwJvSPqVWI92gvZPMo8AVGpGnaMcLB3D0sr2uxx3Ya_c71cG3VxqhpwP_VfFEVKaecBu_huLQ=s320" width="320" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">This second image, while severely lacking clarity shows a fuller inventory of WWII German figures.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhEt34X6IgRxCRrGxrZ8e1JWqd2sSnlIRbq-XvBjNSfvLhvBLgr-7aYHZC7iJe60NeA4dTjHmkO6Gbtj5toUzHkQNyqllbojJXJtV-pDxPffswsmqlLEaW80Xc0RZUMyAYhQzDjP1Sr-z8MajF4P6S_i3LL_AfhsL643EG9zDpjn37MpkAZaAkGEfqWNw=s400" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="400" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhEt34X6IgRxCRrGxrZ8e1JWqd2sSnlIRbq-XvBjNSfvLhvBLgr-7aYHZC7iJe60NeA4dTjHmkO6Gbtj5toUzHkQNyqllbojJXJtV-pDxPffswsmqlLEaW80Xc0RZUMyAYhQzDjP1Sr-z8MajF4P6S_i3LL_AfhsL643EG9zDpjn37MpkAZaAkGEfqWNw=s320" width="320" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiID8S1SZXyWFAPMLwHVQXWDDyJAnXD8Rqm-beXrZwi-Tp7uyDzP-UxQX2O2BG-yEX_jp4YJt53aZ-pZWfSYREID9lULRP3XHUrqslglOr3tujTbIbrQWYMfrDh2TopY-Frd1bd2nD9Rddv-aree1oseF-xnAjshImz4yNNmjCiaqaHEiox0AnvZrhQGw=s1076" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1076" data-original-width="591" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiID8S1SZXyWFAPMLwHVQXWDDyJAnXD8Rqm-beXrZwi-Tp7uyDzP-UxQX2O2BG-yEX_jp4YJt53aZ-pZWfSYREID9lULRP3XHUrqslglOr3tujTbIbrQWYMfrDh2TopY-Frd1bd2nD9Rddv-aree1oseF-xnAjshImz4yNNmjCiaqaHEiox0AnvZrhQGw=s320" width="176" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">WWII German Wehrmacht,<br />Officer, General, Parade Dress </td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhf7bsiow-mdSMmkwS4W9T7DBXwU4xR5iax4WXSFrIS5fA-n9boYY7s7fzzCcAyP-6n-vL0_MsfD6oFhsV0Pfx59RJa0ozMAIoYeA5dIIVXaHL_CyTVeG0m_GyybF3QcYZhJli-d2Ms5C2C7UslNLDHWfBVdMEJa8faPzDcI1aT91wllIbm5-k4iX-vDA=s1068" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1068" data-original-width="551" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhf7bsiow-mdSMmkwS4W9T7DBXwU4xR5iax4WXSFrIS5fA-n9boYY7s7fzzCcAyP-6n-vL0_MsfD6oFhsV0Pfx59RJa0ozMAIoYeA5dIIVXaHL_CyTVeG0m_GyybF3QcYZhJli-d2Ms5C2C7UslNLDHWfBVdMEJa8faPzDcI1aT91wllIbm5-k4iX-vDA=s320" width="165" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">WWI German Hussar Regiment<br />Parade Dress</td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEickU7M3v3TbZ4sqhCWWcIdxbbRkSUbOcFFRkeBA_V-pUaLe6ReCmlZ24M-GUdXTNuL1m3BtRTAydiTdXIgLKoaXm9QBKGPtuK8df2cXK8UDgbXtqzZmfmhpUOOLbyTUEq0_vAJNT6YAq76211_iM9jjSAGuJFAjDoWj4ID0YX_iTOZvV6tE38wxUkBnQ=s483" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="483" data-original-width="432" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEickU7M3v3TbZ4sqhCWWcIdxbbRkSUbOcFFRkeBA_V-pUaLe6ReCmlZ24M-GUdXTNuL1m3BtRTAydiTdXIgLKoaXm9QBKGPtuK8df2cXK8UDgbXtqzZmfmhpUOOLbyTUEq0_vAJNT6YAq76211_iM9jjSAGuJFAjDoWj4ID0YX_iTOZvV6tE38wxUkBnQ=s320" width="286" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">WWII German Wehrmacht, Officer and General,<br />Stalhelms, Service and Parade Dress</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">SCOTTISH CLANSMEN – HISTORICAL<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">The following images are excellent examples of this series. Total number of figures in series is to be determined.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgh9IvNXGTsHVHQkP8ThseZqlnfYLJKw8zPSf4LJlG9EC2dHAb29zHTsJrsqZe6hHvpR_sodh_6mSyGzCpy1XnjhgdDnL-ldy7f8N9DG9MhYturpxJyKnvIg6i8UinoXmtBWk8UeqrZH-zam2MjFD8UGNjH9Td0MEwXzQrlVbnLueOlMzh-YC5VnsiagA=s1181" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1181" data-original-width="850" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgh9IvNXGTsHVHQkP8ThseZqlnfYLJKw8zPSf4LJlG9EC2dHAb29zHTsJrsqZe6hHvpR_sodh_6mSyGzCpy1XnjhgdDnL-ldy7f8N9DG9MhYturpxJyKnvIg6i8UinoXmtBWk8UeqrZH-zam2MjFD8UGNjH9Td0MEwXzQrlVbnLueOlMzh-YC5VnsiagA=s320" width="230" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhpOeuP7TVL4rWlmKBGQuu0TAIMyNmqGqNf2aPrcbhS1OX3s1OHFtN4P4Kf_xle3XlSjGnvdKws8mxz9_jw6iz5aRFBOiXW55RAuaOJELpsfL8iNReyaw5758VPef6hqbV81j2PpzgCuaF9AktjPZFPQnG0IRgR6HYncG3xzJh_Rj27gVuHIgwSn0KihA=s2606" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2606" data-original-width="2505" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhpOeuP7TVL4rWlmKBGQuu0TAIMyNmqGqNf2aPrcbhS1OX3s1OHFtN4P4Kf_xle3XlSjGnvdKws8mxz9_jw6iz5aRFBOiXW55RAuaOJELpsfL8iNReyaw5758VPef6hqbV81j2PpzgCuaF9AktjPZFPQnG0IRgR6HYncG3xzJh_Rj27gVuHIgwSn0KihA=s320" width="308" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">MEN AT ARMS 14<sup>th</sup> -15<sup>th</sup> CENTURY</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> ENGLISH<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">English Royal Household<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">Black Prince's Household<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">Welsh troops serving with The Black Prince<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">Men of Sussex<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">De Bohum's Household<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">Sir Roger Mortimer<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">Glamorgan Welsh<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">Lisle of Rougemont's Household<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">Montacute Archers<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">Ufford's Archers<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">FRENCH<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">Paris a Amiens Militia<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">Count of Armagnac<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">Guillaume Martel (Sieur de Bacqueville)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">Sieur de Creguy<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">Comte de Blarmont<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">Duke de Bar<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">The Dauphin<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">Comte de Soissons<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">SPECIAL FIGURES<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">H.M. Queen Elizabeth Il in Coronation Robes<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">H.R.H. Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, in Naval uniform (Honorary Admiral)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">Lord Horacio Nelson <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">Light Infantry 1955<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">Staff Services<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">Queen Anne 1704<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">Prince George of Denmark 1704<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">Admiral Royal Navy<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">Officer of U.S. Marines<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">Officer, Royal Navy <o:p></o:p>(3 known different figures)</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;">Officer, Royal Marines<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Times;">Royal Marine Commando</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Times;"> <span style="background-color: white;">Officer, Service Dress</span></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">Officer U.S. Army in khaki<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">Officer, Jungle uniform<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">Officer. Desert uniform<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">Officer, Queens Westminsters<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">Officer, 11th Hussars. khaki<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">Officer. 5th Inniskillings<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">Officer. R.A.F Full dress<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">French Garde du Corps<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">French Cuirassiers<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">French Bodyguard Hussars<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">Prussian Hussars<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">Brunswick Hussars<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">Hussar wearing pelisse<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">Saxon Hussars<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">Russian Don Cossack, Officer (<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Extremely rare and reputed to be an early piece from Ball's Private Collection)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">Shown are additional images of Greenwood and Ball figures. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhYNr_Co9_uG1wNFH9bKWpHPVm_ZOx5K_m7SLrxbey97UZYu6XPzW71gShdHfsavchT2JpxTeI4kZyUXWZ4NTyLkM-fwjeVk0SQUqx2nUjikPQa7yYC1uPyAQLqdHfr2-29ObvUh5-zqSMhbyHahC2IP4mwAgOqJGw4AIxneADXrnSclj558MdvvqlxvA=s1000" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="884" data-original-width="1000" height="283" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhYNr_Co9_uG1wNFH9bKWpHPVm_ZOx5K_m7SLrxbey97UZYu6XPzW71gShdHfsavchT2JpxTeI4kZyUXWZ4NTyLkM-fwjeVk0SQUqx2nUjikPQa7yYC1uPyAQLqdHfr2-29ObvUh5-zqSMhbyHahC2IP4mwAgOqJGw4AIxneADXrnSclj558MdvvqlxvA=s320" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; text-align: left;"><span>Left to right are; Royal Engineers, Officer, Review Order,<br /> Line Infantry, Officer, Review Order,<br /> Royal Irish Rifles, Officer, Review Order.<br /></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiV8C5Je1roSlclGjuiyzSpbl2pqgXVTFZatVH_z_mMrLb1IFQOrN9fxsat8H3U_N3EsrF4rKPq-4WGqnwP4RGT629UnAu6DtFJTeMCBlHtRnhIipnICoEBtyJIwvwPLtNR0lXOkyVLRzpxQB4cD8ojuVHEw9Ks87BjBV1SZAxkdfDDyP11qGSmwKi0Uw=s1000" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="911" data-original-width="1000" height="292" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiV8C5Je1roSlclGjuiyzSpbl2pqgXVTFZatVH_z_mMrLb1IFQOrN9fxsat8H3U_N3EsrF4rKPq-4WGqnwP4RGT629UnAu6DtFJTeMCBlHtRnhIipnICoEBtyJIwvwPLtNR0lXOkyVLRzpxQB4cD8ojuVHEw9Ks87BjBV1SZAxkdfDDyP11qGSmwKi0Uw=s320" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span><span style="font-family: times; text-align: left;">Cameron Highlanders, Officer, Review Order, Cameron Highlanders,<br /> Officer, Patrol Dress, 92</span><span style="font-family: times; text-align: left;">nd</span><span style="font-family: times; text-align: left;"> Gordon Highlanders, Officer, Review Orde</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhSLr816-xFK22P9X_17Tl8p82onnifVT_9my9ZFia3eJ8NvVOtscIZ3xM6bn_-hOiBILicpVUamFXnO50Rt4CA269doxvz5vTH9V3PEAK_pb-0h3CJC8Vd8zpBTnAbMC6EXdFVtcfCf1gNBTvpD6rY2TE4N_QNVULF4VX2rPslKr-7IYZ7tPjkY1m_YA=s640" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhSLr816-xFK22P9X_17Tl8p82onnifVT_9my9ZFia3eJ8NvVOtscIZ3xM6bn_-hOiBILicpVUamFXnO50Rt4CA269doxvz5vTH9V3PEAK_pb-0h3CJC8Vd8zpBTnAbMC6EXdFVtcfCf1gNBTvpD6rY2TE4N_QNVULF4VX2rPslKr-7IYZ7tPjkY1m_YA=s320" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; text-align: left;"><span>Royal Tank Regiment, Officer, Review Order.</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg7q0X0a4bciQwPTeM21qCm5RQEuWtS2CbvZ1aE3ynN-pNHpp8UyY4IthbXkfCOfjkH-c3WUjv06sSKjIibiEoZpLl659KXuh760MF2FGZxAmqGCe9faEXKB7GY5PACa4KcIFULD6DJ_PcTYyLEvqtPeL5dhCIabI9Pgud8JYt4o2izOWloR568Y8AnUg=s1041" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1041" data-original-width="809" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg7q0X0a4bciQwPTeM21qCm5RQEuWtS2CbvZ1aE3ynN-pNHpp8UyY4IthbXkfCOfjkH-c3WUjv06sSKjIibiEoZpLl659KXuh760MF2FGZxAmqGCe9faEXKB7GY5PACa4KcIFULD6DJ_PcTYyLEvqtPeL5dhCIabI9Pgud8JYt4o2izOWloR568Y8AnUg=s320" width="249" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; text-align: left;"><span>Gordon Highlander, Officer (Senior Colonel, front),<br />Mounted Duties.</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span> </span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjYNorycdBeK0omj8Rb9BJzCGoSECaW6Pqb4slSTEDNTJ-BmR5qH0F8gYYwng9KO_8ecw3BmIbA3t_hDwbnM1NsC3HJuFPOSSCbXSfoxsjtdT3hsqxYrfJycWZ8UotUzt21yxu-9OtGRxBQw0HuxyLn1paU3IlVAghiABLq781jP-_5XHTI3Bt6a0QgYA=s919" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="919" data-original-width="678" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjYNorycdBeK0omj8Rb9BJzCGoSECaW6Pqb4slSTEDNTJ-BmR5qH0F8gYYwng9KO_8ecw3BmIbA3t_hDwbnM1NsC3HJuFPOSSCbXSfoxsjtdT3hsqxYrfJycWZ8UotUzt21yxu-9OtGRxBQw0HuxyLn1paU3IlVAghiABLq781jP-_5XHTI3Bt6a0QgYA=s320" width="236" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; text-align: left;"><span>Gordon Highlander, Officer (Senior Colonel, rear),<br />Mounted Duties.</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjN3-WwjkRVtj_ZimtfJ0CRp5Mls_CkYv2gq_85ZOmzF6Tom0Qx61GiKmO6rTlOksqxnOm5UTZFVtUfJkHVPnOQS8ZUKWB8Wr_HEGLUOkV6GnZAnG6iDBp-5aZ3NxDRZCy1nPw2uPozLlnvHx5vCTHddwqG8vZgdX3WzkFM8oCZBDumt2xdZ6KmEtYuBw=s1003" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1003" data-original-width="938" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjN3-WwjkRVtj_ZimtfJ0CRp5Mls_CkYv2gq_85ZOmzF6Tom0Qx61GiKmO6rTlOksqxnOm5UTZFVtUfJkHVPnOQS8ZUKWB8Wr_HEGLUOkV6GnZAnG6iDBp-5aZ3NxDRZCy1nPw2uPozLlnvHx5vCTHddwqG8vZgdX3WzkFM8oCZBDumt2xdZ6KmEtYuBw=s320" width="299" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; text-align: left;"><span>Seaforth Highlander, Officer (Senior Colonel), Review Order,<br /> and Cameron Highlander, Officer (Senior Colonel), Review Order.</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjcZCW-Y7wfkN29dkv0a3A-bC9HyNJZFQYmeTU7K00vfyaFr1lUIcOse1rokHSh-Z9XPluaAs007VkbpFxYjTASDy2BerP2uE9f5x8lo4MYB88L0FiQjSMXX2yjErtLJ_SN1yIVX9wZBGPChAdiU6QovFG0_hJVzxW57zqmWeJG6Zirg8cdYk5e96qCFQ=s2838" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2838" data-original-width="1546" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjcZCW-Y7wfkN29dkv0a3A-bC9HyNJZFQYmeTU7K00vfyaFr1lUIcOse1rokHSh-Z9XPluaAs007VkbpFxYjTASDy2BerP2uE9f5x8lo4MYB88L0FiQjSMXX2yjErtLJ_SN1yIVX9wZBGPChAdiU6QovFG0_hJVzxW57zqmWeJG6Zirg8cdYk5e96qCFQ=s320" width="174" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; text-align: left;"><span>Royal Navy, Officer, Admiral, Full Dress</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhuoKUVJadmw0QrsSU9gq9aTzLcRNzdRuBZgrBbFCA45psn_yN6akPRZrqV2IBHpJtaBGj8dJ56pblDXsHZUKw8i0mJitljCJ9raNi7CkLvTUdDTrzAPNxpckvnHMR6qdzX1augbnGa981rXgMpoBfnsAuf0f5tzMJ1OrCOAn8QUqoGgbWC64w_MY0QOQ=s648" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="432" data-original-width="648" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhuoKUVJadmw0QrsSU9gq9aTzLcRNzdRuBZgrBbFCA45psn_yN6akPRZrqV2IBHpJtaBGj8dJ56pblDXsHZUKw8i0mJitljCJ9raNi7CkLvTUdDTrzAPNxpckvnHMR6qdzX1augbnGa981rXgMpoBfnsAuf0f5tzMJ1OrCOAn8QUqoGgbWC64w_MY0QOQ=s320" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; text-align: left;"><span>London Scottish, Officer, Review Order, <br />Seaforth Highlanders, Officers, Review Order.</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiSf-_rzqZoGGG0h8sweV2_E2mpsuqABAbZnJ12oBLc2YjugoHe-JjDLzLtEPNodzrDyEiwZUB8Uv1YE58fxWSVaeMPSvhaoVsjDpG4gkFqI2qQMkADXv2QZxiM9K0e2xKIDlKAQKbD1lNqqFnZdn7Mm9ifKOfIjCcgWQJyr25cPT5PfSSHwhOTjo2uQQ=s1000" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="939" data-original-width="1000" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiSf-_rzqZoGGG0h8sweV2_E2mpsuqABAbZnJ12oBLc2YjugoHe-JjDLzLtEPNodzrDyEiwZUB8Uv1YE58fxWSVaeMPSvhaoVsjDpG4gkFqI2qQMkADXv2QZxiM9K0e2xKIDlKAQKbD1lNqqFnZdn7Mm9ifKOfIjCcgWQJyr25cPT5PfSSHwhOTjo2uQQ=s320" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; text-align: left;"><span>Scots Guards, Drum Major, Officer, Review Order,<br /> and Officer, Patrol Dress</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhUMQLpGhNNNg3CE3HPycvDjpAFUpKLYVYVofq0jLaLs8e5zi3BFZfFnbd00DqZd0wBQcfXCRRwQtEgjPEkljl7QKPIsZQyqwgZWN_RVLKhAAXDMbRlwRHPGUMalEo8Z0qx5Xqy_b3nuxaAovqQNHH5TpqFRwqfKPfeIgX51aDSZLTmwIR18A5Od3J6hg=s1404" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="936" data-original-width="1404" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhUMQLpGhNNNg3CE3HPycvDjpAFUpKLYVYVofq0jLaLs8e5zi3BFZfFnbd00DqZd0wBQcfXCRRwQtEgjPEkljl7QKPIsZQyqwgZWN_RVLKhAAXDMbRlwRHPGUMalEo8Z0qx5Xqy_b3nuxaAovqQNHH5TpqFRwqfKPfeIgX51aDSZLTmwIR18A5Od3J6hg=s320" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Royal Scots Fusiliers, Highland Light Infantry,<br />Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, Officers, Review Order </td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhHsBZ3IA50bByZwB1lN5nf_ISGWylS5HT0LJsYZndE-us7VLltbGsg47sukTZN-8oWvekc0SUBZtAhGSU1lYf3JIgK-Wv9CCz6mU79NZEYUuNlooVwgz6Jk-RWACu4IC0sezOyqa5Zo5TGFVtL_O5uTyYg8v-okfZexp9zwGkOvi1xmYX0zuwDHl7pkw=s2135" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2135" data-original-width="1645" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhHsBZ3IA50bByZwB1lN5nf_ISGWylS5HT0LJsYZndE-us7VLltbGsg47sukTZN-8oWvekc0SUBZtAhGSU1lYf3JIgK-Wv9CCz6mU79NZEYUuNlooVwgz6Jk-RWACu4IC0sezOyqa5Zo5TGFVtL_O5uTyYg8v-okfZexp9zwGkOvi1xmYX0zuwDHl7pkw=s320" width="247" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: start;">Hon Maj. Gen. HH. Maharaja<br /> Sir Pratap Singh Bahadur</span><span style="text-align: start;"></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgV1XX54V7Yz4guSOiPCACTiTa4iSC3yLfRjihjztozzT-Gq_Tsb7k4eSV1w7HYuX0Cg5gZgK8CGgv5jQhy-yYCf5qem0WpE0xeRFehZ4D8V8Z5U8LRpa3goZy0eIUlweYMgz_Fh_TzJ_701rmSde1w4qzEMvdm63_qOfht7tRSi99q3Zo93dEPJifAog=s836" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="836" data-original-width="350" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgV1XX54V7Yz4guSOiPCACTiTa4iSC3yLfRjihjztozzT-Gq_Tsb7k4eSV1w7HYuX0Cg5gZgK8CGgv5jQhy-yYCf5qem0WpE0xeRFehZ4D8V8Z5U8LRpa3goZy0eIUlweYMgz_Fh_TzJ_701rmSde1w4qzEMvdm63_qOfht7tRSi99q3Zo93dEPJifAog=s320" width="134" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">King's Troop, Royal Horse Artillery,<br />Officer, Review Order</td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgM6sV0N9FhKS57s3DKexPCt3P9K37QNfgk1R70icUJhDmF8rO_YPdaCu0kmakZRKuh_cO2plAWU4gWq3qWxP6Iqv3mCv9K2qEwskIPciJFBz7aA2b92q_MrolV9MGJ8yat3uf_J6tnqmT-Fgb-JsL-Gkq-teqlp4P6bnCYwX0jgXB8yFD2wVXxZ4GJbQ=s879" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="879" data-original-width="343" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgM6sV0N9FhKS57s3DKexPCt3P9K37QNfgk1R70icUJhDmF8rO_YPdaCu0kmakZRKuh_cO2plAWU4gWq3qWxP6Iqv3mCv9K2qEwskIPciJFBz7aA2b92q_MrolV9MGJ8yat3uf_J6tnqmT-Fgb-JsL-Gkq-teqlp4P6bnCYwX0jgXB8yFD2wVXxZ4GJbQ=s320" width="125" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Royal Horse Guards,<br />Officer, Review Order</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEglN5wUsP8SIuM51DNPls-1mVfLNVe0ALfv-Ib10N-X5oi-rsOIqM__5AQyuYIOhClNQGEbJfTPz3NYxCxkDOB_4ODo1n_graJHJEorqxOzBEQtNC8igaFCMGr5myhNhsr4kW19KyImxaKRIZqthVz8ZO1aSuEyeq2R3Y912Dei55esqI2OK6VIms-Kxg=s864" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="864" data-original-width="364" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEglN5wUsP8SIuM51DNPls-1mVfLNVe0ALfv-Ib10N-X5oi-rsOIqM__5AQyuYIOhClNQGEbJfTPz3NYxCxkDOB_4ODo1n_graJHJEorqxOzBEQtNC8igaFCMGr5myhNhsr4kW19KyImxaKRIZqthVz8ZO1aSuEyeq2R3Y912Dei55esqI2OK6VIms-Kxg=s320" width="135" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Scots Guards,<br />Officer, Review Order</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgBDgjt-rTTbg-QviJu9PcMXu4fqBXvTngox6n3V50Sh20ZzL9gmRJhaON6bAbwZRinIUxcGFH9jwCgOXzro1afLDp1i5GB9WIJgL6QndB65fl_M0jvib5XXbfIsRHJZXxz5yygCzVDfLaVPtSxWhcIUKR1enxKl5MviI6iNxBcsCN_qVL4O0-ex6tQHg=s1600" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="964" data-original-width="1600" height="193" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgBDgjt-rTTbg-QviJu9PcMXu4fqBXvTngox6n3V50Sh20ZzL9gmRJhaON6bAbwZRinIUxcGFH9jwCgOXzro1afLDp1i5GB9WIJgL6QndB65fl_M0jvib5XXbfIsRHJZXxz5yygCzVDfLaVPtSxWhcIUKR1enxKl5MviI6iNxBcsCN_qVL4O0-ex6tQHg=s320" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders,<br />Officer, Review Order</td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; 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The single most important element being a very large quantity of .577/.450 cal. Mk II Martini-Henry Pattern 1877 rolling-block breach loading rifles, manufactured at the Birmingham Arsenal dated 1878. They had been stored in the same place, untouched for 100 years. These were from the exact production lot which had been in standard issue to the men of B Company, 2nd Battalion, 24th Regiment of Foot (South Wales Borderers) wo fought the Battle of Rorke’s Drift against the Zulus on 22-23 January 1879. Needless to say I purchased one of the premium completely refurbished rifles when they first became available.<div><br /></div><div> In this author’s personal opinion, while the company has regularly offered some historically significant pieces, there have also consistently been some dubious items, clearly misidentified/misdated, and at highly inflated prices.When questioned they have tended to get rather defensive, and have not rectified the issue or withdrawn the item.</div><div><br /></div><div> However, on other occasions they have acquired some real gems. Fortunately I collect WWII British Airborne Forces militaria, and am fortunately not even tempted, but certainly have a full appreciation of the item which they are currently offering for sale. The only reason I’m presenting the item is in order that those collectors who might be tempted, or already have one within their collection, can use this example as collaboration, full authentication, and valuation. This author has no direct or indirect interest in the item.</div><div><br /></div><div> The item is a circa 1944 original German WWII Luftwaffe Fallschirmjäger Smock in Tan and Water camouflage, in excellent, unissued, condition. It is currently at offer for $8,995.00. Price recently reduced to $7,995.00. For those collectors who are in the specific field, this may not be an exorbitant price. However, that large a reduction in price, immediately raises my antennae, in that someone may have seen something that brings authenticity under question. Or it just may be the current market. Personally have a rare unissued original British dummy parachutist device (Device, Camouflage, No.15), fortunately a very generous gift, but within the same comparable price range. One of the first questions that comes to mind is where was the smock found.</div><div><br /></div><div> The following is IMA’s Item Description:</div><div><br /></div><div>“ Original Item: Only One Available. This is an incredibly rare circa 1944 WWII German Luftwaffe Paratrooper Smock in “Tan and Water” camouflage pattern. The Smock is in excellent, unissued, condition, and one of the fi nest specimens we have ever seen!
All of the original blue glass buttons are present. The “Zipp” brand zippers, which were purpose built for this style of smock, and all in excellent working order. Each zipper has a crosshatch black leather pull tab. The snaps are all intact and marked "PRYM". The reverse has the pistol pocket with small black bakelite buttons. The snaps at the cuffs are identical to those at the hem for the leg closure. All snaps function as intended. The breast eagle is machine embroidered and is hand stitched onto the smock with purple/blue thread. It should be noted that this hand-application is most likely period, as there is no evidence that an eagle was previously machine-applied. The interior is unlined and uses a mix of green and blue Herringbone Twill cloth for pocket reinforcements, etc. The original size adjustment draw string is in place and secured underneath with a strip of purple/blue cloth. Note that on several sections of material inside the body panels of the Smock that “16” is written in grease pencil. These are cutter markings from when the Smock was made in the factory! Generally these are worn off with even the lightest of wear!
No other markings are to be found in the Smock, which is not uncommon for a late war garment. Overall, an incredible late war Fallschirmjäger smock offered in truly excellent condition.
</div><div><br /></div><div>Approximate Measurements:
Collar to Shoulder: 10”
Shoulder to Sleeve: 23.5”
Shoulder to Shoulder: 20.5”
Chest Width: 20”
Waist Width: 20”
Front Length: 40”.</div><div><br /></div><div>The Fallschirmjäger were the paratrooper branch of the German Luftwaffe before and during World War II. They were the first German paratroopers to be committed in large-scale airborne operations and came to be known as the "green devils" by the Allied forces they fought against. The Fallschirmjäger were very effective when used in commando style raids. The Fallschirmjäger were famous for their willingness to give every effort unwaveringly even in the grimmest of situations. The Fallschirmjäger were seldom used as parachutists. Instead, they were prized for their combat abilities and frequently acted in a "fire brigade" role as roving elite infantrymen. Throughout World War II the Fallschirmjäger commander was Kurt Student."</div><div><br /></div><div> It is with full acknowledgment and gratitude to IMA that the following comprehensive set of imagery is presented solely for reference/comparative purposes.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-P1g_C3MVJT4/YXr45Peib_I/AAAAAAAAIm8/pyiFsWYMCgge7wQnGhzVK7Gg8yxBRCpegCLcBGAsYHQ/s1400/ON12724__01.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1400" data-original-width="1400" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-P1g_C3MVJT4/YXr45Peib_I/AAAAAAAAIm8/pyiFsWYMCgge7wQnGhzVK7Gg8yxBRCpegCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/ON12724__01.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zGGLwEemEz0/YXxSOK0GChI/AAAAAAAAIow/UNzuxM6x60EsOgASlrXzsvUthPbFraxAgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1400/ON12724__06.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1400" data-original-width="1400" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3Ea5gI49IA0/YXr7wl_Lr4I/AAAAAAAAIoY/I70Ug7EiecEUIOUQpkLqkWSBT-Rg63Z-gCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/ON12724__15.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Hp8mBlyTjFw/YXr8BVm2oGI/AAAAAAAAIog/FbfRM4L9IDQlzirzXIAIe0NRkZahMFTcQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1400/ON12724__16.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1400" data-original-width="1400" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Hp8mBlyTjFw/YXr8BVm2oGI/AAAAAAAAIog/FbfRM4L9IDQlzirzXIAIe0NRkZahMFTcQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/ON12724__16.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/--oLqRNMc47A/YXr8SZt7hYI/AAAAAAAAIoo/ZU5gNqELhXw9i35dr7PaUwIAjvgw9qcKACLcBGAsYHQ/s1400/ON12724__17.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1400" data-original-width="1400" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/--oLqRNMc47A/YXr8SZt7hYI/AAAAAAAAIoo/ZU5gNqELhXw9i35dr7PaUwIAjvgw9qcKACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/ON12724__17.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div>Arnhemjimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01794722964883335445noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2956713848009971988.post-27453889597799280992021-10-06T13:39:00.003-07:002021-10-29T12:28:22.018-07:00Arnhem Jim's Blog Posts Grouped by Categories 2011 - 2021<p><span style="font-family: times;"> In an attempt to more easily facilitate a reader’s search and recovery of specific information on a given subject from Arnhem Jim’s blog page, the author thought that a single post combining all posts (excluding administrative posts) by categories would aid in the reader’s ability to exercise a more efficient recovery process. Personally, I have always found it very frustrating to remember that I knew generally where I had specifically found a bit of information, but without an index or table of contents of the document (or set of documents) could look forward to a lengthy, time consuming search, and table of contents and indices are never comprehensive.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">The blog page does provide a search window, for use of interrogation by key words/terms, but the search retrieval results usually will show only the first post containing the relevant search terms. With the following grouping of post by categories, hopefully multiple relevant posts are identified. In order to ensure that no post of 11 years was omitted was a bit of a bookkeeping and proofreading task, but to the best of my ability all posts are included. Hopefully the will prove beneficial.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">Battle of Arnhem<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="http://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/p/operation-market-garden.html" style="color: #954f72;">http://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/p/operation-market-garden.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="http://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2011/04/market-garden-was-intelligence.html" style="color: #954f72;">http://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2011/04/market-garden-was-intelligence.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="http://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2011/05/battle-of-arnhem-colonel-john-l-waddy.html" style="color: #954f72;">http://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2011/05/battle-of-arnhem-colonel-john-l-waddy.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="http://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2011/06/battle-of-arnhem-two-movies-on-battle.html" style="color: #954f72;">http://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2011/06/battle-of-arnhem-two-movies-on-battle.html</a><span class="MsoHyperlink" style="color: #0563c1; text-decoration: underline;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="http://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2015/07/a-bridge-too-far-movie-casting-mirrors.html" style="color: #954f72;">http://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2015/07/a-bridge-too-far-movie-casting-mirrors.html</a><span class="MsoHyperlink" style="color: #0563c1; text-decoration: underline;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="http://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2014/08/70th-anniversary-of-battle-of-arnhem.html" style="color: #954f72;">http://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2014/08/70th-anniversary-of-battle-of-arnhem.html</a><span class="MsoHyperlink" style="color: #0563c1; text-decoration: underline;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="https://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2019/07/commemoration-of-forthcoming-75th.html" style="color: #954f72;">https://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2019/07/commemoration-of-forthcoming-75th.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="https://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2019/09/operation-market-garden-75th.html" style="color: #954f72;">https://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2019/09/operation-market-garden-75th.html</a> <br /><a href="http://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2014/09/operation-market-garden-and-battle-of.html" style="color: #954f72;">http://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2014/09/operation-market-garden-and-battle-of.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="http://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2016/05/critical-resupply-shortfall-during.html" style="color: #954f72;">http://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2016/05/critical-resupply-shortfall-during.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="http://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2017/07/detailed-list-of-arms-and-equipment-of.html" style="color: #954f72;">http://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2017/07/detailed-list-of-arms-and-equipment-of.html</a><span class="MsoHyperlink" style="color: #0563c1; text-decoration: underline;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="https://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2017/07/a-detailed-and-annotated-order-of.html" style="color: #954f72;">https://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2017/07/a-detailed-and-annotated-order-of.html</a><span class="MsoHyperlink" style="color: #0563c1; text-decoration: underline;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">Toy Soldiers and Military Miniatures<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="https://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/p/britains-minatures.html" style="color: #954f72;">https://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/p/britains-minatures.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="http://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2011/03/whats-form-general-mgen-re-urquhart-at.html" style="color: #954f72;">http://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2011/03/whats-form-general-mgen-re-urquhart-at.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="http://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2011/03/battle-of-arnhem-whos-son-and-heir.html" style="color: #954f72;">http://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2011/03/battle-of-arnhem-whos-son-and-heir.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="https://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2019/04/an-addendum-and-update-on-state-of-toy.html" style="color: #954f72;">https://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2019/04/an-addendum-and-update-on-state-of-toy.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="http://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2011/06/less-we-forget-past-glories-remembrance.html" style="color: #954f72;">http://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2011/06/less-we-forget-past-glories-remembrance.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="http://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2013/09/heroes-of-arnhem-in-miniature.html" style="color: #954f72;">http://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2013/09/heroes-of-arnhem-in-miniature.html</a><span class="MsoHyperlink" style="color: #0563c1; text-decoration: underline;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="http://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2015/10/landing-zone-z-wolfheze-netherlands.html" style="color: #954f72;">http://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2015/10/landing-zone-z-wolfheze-netherlands.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="http://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2012/05/collection-of-toy-soldiersmilitary.html" style="color: #954f72;">http://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2012/05/collection-of-toy-soldiersmilitary.html</a><span class="MsoHyperlink" style="color: #0563c1; text-decoration: underline;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="http://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2011/08/vintage-w-britains-toy-soldiers.html" style="color: #954f72;">http://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2011/08/vintage-w-britains-toy-soldiers.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="http://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2012/11/another-set-of-w-britains-toy-soldiers.html" style="color: #954f72;">http://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2012/11/another-set-of-w-britains-toy-soldiers.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="http://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2012/10/officers-of-scottish-regiments-of.html" style="color: #954f72;">http://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2012/10/officers-of-scottish-regiments-of.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="http://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2013/08/an-addendum-to-collecting-toy.html" style="color: #954f72;">http://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2013/08/an-addendum-to-collecting-toy.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="http://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2014/05/cannon-to-right-cannon-to-left-cannon.html" style="color: #954f72;">http://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2014/05/cannon-to-right-cannon-to-left-cannon.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="http://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2014/06/its-all-matter-of-scale.html" style="color: #954f72;">http://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2014/06/its-all-matter-of-scale.html</a><u><span style="color: #0563c1;"><o:p></o:p></span></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="http://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2015/01/an-analysis-of-wwii-infantry-weapon.html" style="color: #954f72;">http://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2015/01/an-analysis-of-wwii-infantry-weapon.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="http://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2015/03/curious-and-more-curious-intriguing-set.html" style="color: #954f72;">http://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2015/03/curious-and-more-curious-intriguing-set.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="http://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-toy-soldiers-of-mme-fernande-metayer.html" style="color: #954f72;">http://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-toy-soldiers-of-mme-fernande-metayer.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="http://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2016/07/vintage-films-on-making-of-wm-britains.html" style="color: #954f72;">http://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2016/07/vintage-films-on-making-of-wm-britains.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="http://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2017/05/the-history-of-tin-soldiers-from.html" style="color: #954f72;">http://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2017/05/the-history-of-tin-soldiers-from.html</a><span class="MsoHyperlink" style="color: #0563c1; text-decoration: underline;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="http://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2015/09/operation-market-garden-series-by-king.html" style="color: #954f72;">http://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2015/09/operation-market-garden-series-by-king.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="http://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2015/09/wolfheze-junction-it-werent-no-ok.html" style="color: #954f72;">http://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2015/09/wolfheze-junction-it-werent-no-ok.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="https://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2017/09/an-addendum-to-photographic-catalog.html" style="color: #954f72;">https://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2017/09/an-addendum-to-photographic-catalog.html</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="https://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2019/06/greenwood-ball-connoisseur-military.html" style="color: #954f72;">https://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2019/06/greenwood-ball-connoisseur-military.html</a><span class="MsoHyperlink" style="color: #0563c1; text-decoration: underline;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">Infantry Weapons and Other Small Arms<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="http://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2011/03/british-pattern-1868-cavalry-lance-at.html" style="color: #954f72;">http://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2011/03/british-pattern-1868-cavalry-lance-at.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="http://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2011/10/other-webley-limited-standard-semi.html" style="color: #954f72;">http://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2011/10/other-webley-limited-standard-semi.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="http://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2012/11/some-infantry-weapons-of-1st-airborne.html" style="color: #954f72;">http://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2012/11/some-infantry-weapons-of-1st-airborne.html</a><span class="MsoHyperlink" style="color: #0563c1; text-decoration: underline;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="http://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-other-webley-addendum.html" style="color: #954f72;">http://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-other-webley-addendum.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="http://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2015/12/were-inglis-or-patchett-machine-carbine.html" style="color: #954f72;">http://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2015/12/were-inglis-or-patchett-machine-carbine.html</a><span class="MsoHyperlink" style="color: #0563c1; text-decoration: underline;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="http://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2016/03/recovery-of-gun-from-rising-sun.html" style="color: #954f72;">http://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2016/03/recovery-of-gun-from-rising-sun.html</a><span class="MsoHyperlink" style="color: #0563c1; 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Less and less frequently is the genuine article offered for sale, let alone on eBay. The next question immediately arises, as to whether showing the real thing with a semi-forensic analysis for the benefit of the collector, outweighs the detriment of providing the counterfeiter with the added insight to better their next edition of a given badge.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Just a brief review.The Parachute Regiment and the Glider Pilot Regiment were officially formed by SPECIAL ARMY ORDER A.O. 128/1942 dated 31 August 1942. It’s this collector’s personal opinion that the majority of airborne collectors acknowledge that the first Parachute Regiment unit designation strip (worn just below both shoulder seams of the battledress blouse) was dark blue “</span>PARACHUTE REGIMENT<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">” (sans-serif) lettering on a light blue background. This was authorized on or shortly after ACI (Army Council Instruction) 905 dated 12 June 1943 which officially established regimental designations for the Parachute Regiment and the Glider Pilot Regiment. The strips came in both a printed and embroidered version.To the best of this author’s knowledge, this remained the only officially authorized regimental designation strip for the remainder of WWII, although there was a wide variety of unauthorized variants also worn as shown in numerous historical photographs.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">The following first embroidered pair, at least from the front (without seeing the backs), appear to be righteous. The second printed title, and the third embroidered example, also appear to be genuine.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WZCcy-Ygvg4/YVi5nD_xz-I/AAAAAAAAIkY/Uw712ZYt3akIZUKOvgiy5elBA22xwkZRwCLcBGAsYHQ/s587/be402-0.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="355" data-original-width="587" height="194" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WZCcy-Ygvg4/YVi5nD_xz-I/AAAAAAAAIkY/Uw712ZYt3akIZUKOvgiy5elBA22xwkZRwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/be402-0.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sacVW5f8Bow/YVi5z7GIw3I/AAAAAAAAIkc/Ey7U_pl-sj8ruGi60mWKrqVepMNdx_gWACLcBGAsYHQ/s680/parachute-regiment-cloth-printed-shoulder-title.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="223" data-original-width="680" height="105" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sacVW5f8Bow/YVi5z7GIw3I/AAAAAAAAIkc/Ey7U_pl-sj8ruGi60mWKrqVepMNdx_gWACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/parachute-regiment-cloth-printed-shoulder-title.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-v0yB20fcCZI/YVi6OHdEvpI/AAAAAAAAIks/QUnGnMD-YUoX9I-FW6nGQqGKjoRqgv9zQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/british-ww2-parachute-regiment_360_43a77e7b037d41487159764de03120b6.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1600" height="180" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-v0yB20fcCZI/YVi6OHdEvpI/AAAAAAAAIks/QUnGnMD-YUoX9I-FW6nGQqGKjoRqgv9zQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/british-ww2-parachute-regiment_360_43a77e7b037d41487159764de03120b6.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Before evolving and being officially designated the Parachute Regiment there was a period when a wide variety of shoulder titles were worn. The first being a curved "</span><span style="font-family: arial;">AIRBORNE</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">" strip (both printed and embroidered,</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> officially authorized by ACI 3816 dated 31 October 1942). There was also a version with rounded ends. In addition "Parachute 1", "Parachute 2", "Parachute 3", "Parachute 4" (for battalions) were worn. Subsequently, when the </span><span style="font-family: arial;">PARACHUTE REGIMENT</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> unit designation was authorized, the strip was modified to a straight horizontal strip, worn below the Pegasus Formation badge. Also additional independent parachute companies ("Parachute XXI, Parachute XXII), and attached air landing (glider-borne) support units wore their own authorized unit/regimental designation strips.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-54A0-L5FbOQ/YVpMZY31leI/AAAAAAAAIls/ld96cjWyU4Q6uKAHdN2RHhvCwZKplTgzACLcBGAsYHQ/s2031/1113549d1505594757-british-airborne-insignia-z-airborne-title.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1343" data-original-width="2031" height="212" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-54A0-L5FbOQ/YVpMZY31leI/AAAAAAAAIls/ld96cjWyU4Q6uKAHdN2RHhvCwZKplTgzACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/1113549d1505594757-british-airborne-insignia-z-airborne-title.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TKGNxhCM-7o/YVpMg_seXfI/AAAAAAAAIlw/ELZUqv40T2AHSkg98GwRUWIflPhPnpMrACLcBGAsYHQ/s1959/1113557d1505596167-british-airborne-insignia-z-airborne-strip.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1583" data-original-width="1959" height="259" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TKGNxhCM-7o/YVpMg_seXfI/AAAAAAAAIlw/ELZUqv40T2AHSkg98GwRUWIflPhPnpMrACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/1113557d1505596167-british-airborne-insignia-z-airborne-strip.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Although continuing to research, at some date after the end of WWII, currently not established by this author, an official transition occurred to a unit designation strip worn in the same location which was light blue “PARACHUTE REGIMENT” (serifs) on a maroon background. Its authorized wear was terminated when battledress was phased out, which in limited cases was as late as the early 1960's. The following is a pair of images showing both sides of what I believe to be a genuine pair. Please observe the following attributes/features:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">• The colours, both shade and chroma, used<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">• The use of consistent serifs can be observed both front and back<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">• The regularity and consistency of the overall centering and spacing of the lettering<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">• The regularity of the overall dimensions of the strip<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">• The consistent diagonal and regularity of the stitching of the lettering<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">• On the reverse the absence of irregularity and cross-over stitching, common in reproductions<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">• The characteristics of the backing material, trimming of same, and the sticth marks (would appear one was issued, one was not) This in an otherwise identical pair, being offered as such, is somewhat troublesome, i.e. not a matched pair).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Compared with the vast majority of copies currently on the market, these features are even more readily discernible.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-73B95jgKjTM/YVi7CI9siSI/AAAAAAAAIlA/YWOePMFQNWoC0Y2X5Wz8VSv1bDzm8qYpwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/s-l1600.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="240" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-73B95jgKjTM/YVi7CI9siSI/AAAAAAAAIlA/YWOePMFQNWoC0Y2X5Wz8VSv1bDzm8qYpwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/s-l1600.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IjTC79qpPVo/YVi7PHFvCcI/AAAAAAAAIlE/vjmwXPt7eKQ-2vtS3qaXyOmGGOaJA8M_QCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/s-l1600-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="240" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IjTC79qpPVo/YVi7PHFvCcI/AAAAAAAAIlE/vjmwXPt7eKQ-2vtS3qaXyOmGGOaJA8M_QCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/s-l1600-1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> This second 2 pair of unit designation strips also appear righteous in this author's personal opinion.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Lnp3Yvjrv0s/YVpM-Qb7pSI/AAAAAAAAIl8/uytNc-aAL8EvmU7l-qI5KuMhm5oJ66TSwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/1113552d1505595492-british-airborne-insignia-parachute-regiment-titles.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1283" data-original-width="2048" height="200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Lnp3Yvjrv0s/YVpM-Qb7pSI/AAAAAAAAIl8/uytNc-aAL8EvmU7l-qI5KuMhm5oJ66TSwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/1113552d1505595492-british-airborne-insignia-parachute-regiment-titles.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Apparently this configuration was available in both embroidered and printed configuration. The following printed pair (sans serifs), though extremely very well done, have been specifically identified by the seller as reproductions. Two clues are no serifs and the lack of bleed-through present in the majority of the backs of WWII printed insignia, Under these set of circumstances the collector's only safeguard is limited to provenance.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-m2ceyRBA1os/YVi8P-Tw04I/AAAAAAAAIlQ/qfD7rPU8abY-HylSz98f6UCpkYwOyL4GwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1555/s-l1600-2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1555" height="185" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-m2ceyRBA1os/YVi8P-Tw04I/AAAAAAAAIlQ/qfD7rPU8abY-HylSz98f6UCpkYwOyL4GwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/s-l1600-2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RGmZRE_moBg/YVi8aLqXQ6I/AAAAAAAAIlU/dgdYgx-n56AZPOtufpfBikYH0PSGgQ2BACLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/s-l1600-1-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="240" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RGmZRE_moBg/YVi8aLqXQ6I/AAAAAAAAIlU/dgdYgx-n56AZPOtufpfBikYH0PSGgQ2BACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/s-l1600-1-1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Here is another example of reproduction designation strips. Notice the thinness of the letters and spacing, and the maroon color and texture of cloth.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-knnQtGbi7F0/YVi8tD18GRI/AAAAAAAAIlg/gNEhJNH1Ajs8QW7tvRf4iJdeT5xABKWCQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/s-l1600-3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="243" data-original-width="320" height="243" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-knnQtGbi7F0/YVi8tD18GRI/AAAAAAAAIlg/gNEhJNH1Ajs8QW7tvRf4iJdeT5xABKWCQCLcBGAsYHQ/s0/s-l1600-3.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />Arnhemjimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01794722964883335445noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2956713848009971988.post-86892806303534467202021-09-17T11:10:00.016-07:002021-09-21T08:39:24.305-07:00The Sea Ceptor System with Soft Vertical Launch<p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">It’s one thing to have a Don Quixote type tilt with a windmill, it’s still another to have that same windmill come back and smear excrement (I’m sorry egg, to be politely P.C.) in your face. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Just this month, having been long retired, this author celebrated his 85th birthday. In a previous blog post, published several years ago (2013), a parallel to this very same subject was addressed in some detail; </span><a href="https://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/search?q=VLS" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">https://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/search?q=VLS</a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> .</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Not having quite as fast a draw as I once had, it was not until today that I discovered a Royal Navy missile defense system that had an I.O.C.(2018), three years ago. Shame! The Sea Ceptor missile is truly generations of technology more capable than anything available to the early U.S. Navy Aegis system. It’s the SVL (Soft Vertical Launch), an integral element of Sea Ceptor, that I found "intriguing". For those who may have taken the time to scan the afore-mentioned blog post, striking design similarities should be obvious (see following images).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8yXu9f4kBoQ/YUTYGmCKVKI/AAAAAAAAIhw/boAbVD90IWsdGTiNMlmG8m-FliEjoqIBgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/IMG_3381.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1066" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8yXu9f4kBoQ/YUTYGmCKVKI/AAAAAAAAIhw/boAbVD90IWsdGTiNMlmG8m-FliEjoqIBgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_3381.JPG" width="213" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NsjjVqPXCNs/YUTYV7XpgWI/AAAAAAAAIh0/OPcwb7Oq0bU5C1W5sLEeXo4HNcZzrK6DQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/IMG_3387.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1066" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NsjjVqPXCNs/YUTYV7XpgWI/AAAAAAAAIh0/OPcwb7Oq0bU5C1W5sLEeXo4HNcZzrK6DQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_3387.JPG" width="213" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">It suffices to say I have no one else to blame but myself, at the time just lacked the assertive personality to have pushed back a lot harder. "No guts, No glory!" However, I’m certainly going to go on written record at this time.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">To better accommodate the reader, in addition to its silo’s circular configuration, I’ve taken the liberty of bolding the text on certain other specific design features and capabilities. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">A new missile for evolving threats – Sea Ceptor</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-o3kKDuQJmhc/YUTbnsATTtI/AAAAAAAAIiA/kA4Ka_V49wk_22h-yuaATYlFOL1sdhfjQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2028/Sea-Ceptor-Missile-Launch-1%2Bcopy.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="974" data-original-width="2028" height="154" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-o3kKDuQJmhc/YUTbnsATTtI/AAAAAAAAIiA/kA4Ka_V49wk_22h-yuaATYlFOL1sdhfjQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Sea-Ceptor-Missile-Launch-1%2Bcopy.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></b></div><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></b><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">GWS-35 Sea Ceptor was officially accepted into RN service in May 2018 (Let's see, 1963 to 2018 is 55 years). MBDA (a joint venture between BAE Systems, Leonardo and Airbus – the leading European missile manufacturer) developed Sea Ceptor based on their Common Anti-Air Modular Missile (CAMM). CAMM was the answer to the MoD’s requirement for an affordable modular missile using common parts for use on land, at sea or in the air. The Future Local Area Air Defence System (FLAADS) project aimed to control costs through reuse of existing technology, while delivering weapons that could cope with high-speed, hard-manoeuvring modern threats. The British Army is replacing its Rapier air defence missile with CAMM (known as Sky Sabre) while CAMM technology has been used to upgrade the Advanced Short Range Air-to-Air Missile (ASRAAM) for the RAF.</span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">CAMM incorporates the tail fin control technology and rocket motor from ASRAMM. The blast-fragmentation warhead is derived from the Meteor Beyond Visual Range Air-Air Missile that entered service with the RAF last year. Some internal electronics from the Sea Wolf Block 2 missiles are also incorporated. Otherwise, Sea Ceptor has little in common with Sea Wolf, Weighing 99kg and 3.3m in length, it is considerably bigger and capable of Mach 3. Most significantly it has far greater range, officially capable of interceptions between 1 and 25km, although the missile reportedly travelled up to 60 km during trials. This has important tactical implications. Sea Wolf provided point-defence for the ship itself and a few others in close company, Sea Ceptor can now defend more than 1,000 km² around the ship, offering an area air defence capability. This will allow the frigates to operate in more loose formation with the aircraft carrier or high-value Unit, important for anti-submarine operations, while still contributing to the air defence.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">As the air threat to surface ships has evolved with increasing speed and sophistication, being able to intercept faster and at a greater distance becomes imperative. The ability to make high-G manoeuvres in the terminal phase and better resistance against jamming are all important improvements over Sea Wolf but it is the guidance system that is greatest step-change. CAMM / Sea Ceptor utilises the powerful track-while-scan ability of the multi-function Artisan 3D radar. Artisan has a maximum range of about 200km and can detect small object travelling at Mach 3 more than 25km away. It can track up to 800 objects simultaneously and is highly resistant to ECM and interference. Artisan provides initial target data to Sea Ceptor and updates the missile in flight via the two-way Platform Data Link Terminal (PDLT). Most importantly, the missile itself has an advanced active radar seeker head for use in the terminal phase which removes the need for dedicated fire control radars. Numbers are classified but it is clear that a <b>salvo of missiles could be launched simultaneously against multiple targets.</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Sea Ceptor is clearly optimised for defending against saturation anti-ship missile attacks, which could overwhelm the limitations of legacy systems based on target illumination fire-control radars.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">CAMM features another major innovation, soft vertical launch (SVL). A <b>very rapid chemical reaction in a gas generator in the base of the missile canister ejects the missile out of the tube via a piston with enough momentum to get about 30m above the ship</b>. Small lateral thrusters then fire in sequence to turn the missile horizontal before the main rocket motor ignites. This ‘cold-launch’ method reduces the heat signature and has a better minimum intercept range, compared to conventional VLS which have a greater turnover arc. It also reduces stress on the vessel’s structure and avoids the risks of a missile with a burning rocket motor jammed in its cell. SVL also saves smoke and exhaust gas efflux enveloping the ship which can lower visibility for several minutes in light winds.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2zbwg5xxm_g/YUTcuTx2sbI/AAAAAAAAIiQ/tg_d4Qis7D8n0N9Hv_Y09VorggdyS7LBACLcBGAsYHQ/s1800/Sea-Ceptor-missile-silo%2Bcopy%2B2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="876" data-original-width="1800" height="156" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2zbwg5xxm_g/YUTcuTx2sbI/AAAAAAAAIiQ/tg_d4Qis7D8n0N9Hv_Y09VorggdyS7LBACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Sea-Ceptor-missile-silo%2Bcopy%2B2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">The 'mushroom' farm. The 32-cell silo on HMS Argyll. Note how each cell is offset from the vertical. <b>If the rocket motor should fail to ignite after soft-launch, the missile will not fall on the ship</b>. Sea Ceptor is longer than the Sea Wolf the silo was designed for, so each cell protrudes above the silo top slightly.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">The cost of upgrading the Type 23 frigates missiles has been kept down by using the existing ship footprint and infrastructure as far as possible. The existing Silo has been used, although modified to take the longer missile. The main weight of the cells is carried on shock-proof mountings by the deck below, instead of the silo top in the case of Sea Wolf. The deck has been strengthened to cope with the shock loadings generated at launch. The removal of the Fire Control Radars and replacement by the small PDLT is a considerable saving in top-weight. This reduces the stress on the ship or could be used as a growth margin to fit additional equipment on the superstructure. There are four launch management system cabinets, one for every eight missiles and other below-decks control equipment in the operations room and in the old Sea Wolf radar offices. Overall the amount of equipment is reduced and some of the existing cabling has been re-used.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">The delivery of Sea Ceptor into service has been relatively quick. MBDA invested around £2 Billion in its development and were rewarded with a £483M demonstration contract for Sea Ceptor in January 2012. To reduce costs, development and de-risking work was carried out entirely on land and benefited from the Type 997 (Artisan) radar already proven in service. Missile test firings were conducted at the Vidsel range in Sweden while Integration and development was done in Bristol, Stevenage and at the Type 23 Land Based Test Site (LBTS) at Portsdown Technology Park. A further £250M contract to supply the equipment for the frigates was signed in September 2013. The number of missiles purchased, their individual cost and their delivery schedule are not in the public domain.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Sea Ceptor will be fitted to the Type 26 frigates which will carry up to 48 missiles in two separated 24-cell silos. It is also very likely that the Type 31e frigates will carry the system, although with a smaller number of cells. It is expected that Artisan radars and the control equipment will be transferred to the new frigates from the Type 23s as they decommission. While the system has been fully proven and de-risked, there are integration and timing challenges that will be involved with this migration process.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">A flexible friend<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">It is possible the Type 45 destroyers could be fitted with Sea Ceptor. Their Sylver VLS cells that hold Aster 15/30 (Sea Viper) missiles could be adapted with quad packs that allow 4 CAMM to fit inside each cell. Theoretically, a Type 45 could, for example, be outfitted with 30 x long-range Aster30 and 72 x quad-packed Sea Ceptor. Trading 18 x Aster15 for 72 x Sea Ceptor would make sense and add significantly to each ship’s firepower. Sea Ceptor uses around 70% of the same technology as the PAAMS carried by the Type 45, so integration should be fairly straight forward. The Sampson radar offers even better performance than Artisan, potentially offsetting the reduced range and performance of Sea Ceptor compared with Aster15. Quad-packed Sylver is a theoretical niche capability for the UK and France but Lockheed Martin has already tested and proven the quad-pack concept for their Mk 41 VLS Extensible Launching System (EXLS). Mk 41 is utilised by many navies across the world and Sea Ceptor is an attractive proposition for cost-effective medium-range naval air defence. (It’s an unlikely scenario but a single Type 26 frigate could potentially carry a total of 144 Sea Ceptor missiles if also quad-packed into its 24 x Mk 41 cells!)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">CAMM are assembled in Bolton, Lancashire, although the component supply chain is global. MBDA is a European company but CAMM is primarily a British product and already something of an export success. Lockheed Martin Canada is fitting Sea Ceptor to the New Zealand Navy’s ANZAC Frigates as part of a major Systems Upgrade (FSU) project. Chile has also contracted LM Canada to upgrade their ex-RN Type 23 frigates and they will receive the system. Brazil has selected Artisan and a 12-cell Sea Ceptor installation for its Tamandaré class corvettes being constructed by TKMS in Germany. The Royal Navy, New Zealand and Chilean navies have now established a ‘Sea Ceptor users group’ to share experience and best practice with the system.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">CAMM/Sea Ceptor appears to be a rare example of a highly successful UK procurement project, affordable, delivered on time and meeting all requirements. Through its acquisition, the RN has quietly gained a step-change in defensive capability, which is very much needed in the face of ever more demanding air and missile threats. Operating inside the Sea Viper umbrella of the Type 45 destroyers, the frigates can provide the next line of defence for the carrier battle group with an equally credible weapon system.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">In conclusion, both the launch system proposed by the author while at General Dynamics/Pomona in 1963, and the Sea Ceptor launch system, circa 2018, incorporate the following same attributes:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">• Vertical launch with angled launch tube to avoid “dead launch” hitting ship<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">• Cylindrical missile storage container and launch tube<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">• “Cold launch” with gas generator and sabot piston<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">• Avoids potential burning rocket motor jammed in cell<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">• In event of missile malfunction, instantaneous ability to switch targeting/launch data to another missile<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">• Capable of simultaneous engagement/multiple launch against multiple targets, and/or types (AAW/ASW/SSW)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">• Lower center of gravity and physical profile of entire launch complex<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">• No heavy, complex, electro/mechanical amplidyne launcher drive vulnerable to damage and/or malfunction (operability/maintainability/survivability/)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">• Entire missile inventory in magazine not rendered useless because of launcher malfunction and/or combat damage</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">The only difference being, that the one launching system could have been operational in the fleet at the very least over <b>55 years ago, </b>albeit without as sophisticated a missile.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p></div>Arnhemjimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01794722964883335445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2956713848009971988.post-15166574930571835262021-08-21T12:13:00.040-07:002023-08-01T16:20:17.557-07:00The Last Gordon Highlander, Locomotive That Is<p> <span face="Calibri, sans-serif">The Gordon Highlanders, as a regiment of the British Army, served the kings and queens of Great Britain for two hundred years from 1894 to 1994. The span of time that locomotives (steam or diesel) of the same name, served Great Britain as part of their railway system was much shorter. The first. a steam locomotive, entered service in the late 1920s. It is briefly discussed in a recent blog post;</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"> </span><a href="https://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2020/10/a-different-kind-of-gordon-highlander.html" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="font-family: times;">https://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2020/10/a-different-kind-of-gordon-highlander.html</span></a><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: times;">.</span> The last, an iconic massive diesel locomotive, entered service in 1961, and was retired in 1981. It is this diesel, both in real and model form, that is the subject of this post.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">There were 22 of the British Rail Type 55 Class “Deltic” diesel locomotives built between 1961 and 1962 by English Electric for British Railways. They utilized a modified Napier Deltic power unit initially designed for marine application for the Royal Navy. Thus, the name “Deltic”. They were named after regiments of the British Army, following the tradition of predecessors, the famous Royal Scot Class steam locomotives, and winning racehorses. One, D9016, was specifically called the “Gordon Highlander”. When they entered service they were the most powerful diesel (producing about 2,750 drawbar horsepower)<span> </span>ever built, and set a range of land speed records for all locomotives between 113 and 125 mph (varying conditions). For those readers who might be interested in more technical details see; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_55" style="color: #954f72;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_55</a> .<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">The following are a few images and videos of the actual diesel in service in order that the reader can make a direct comparison with the Bachmann HO gauge model replication. The one video shown below that indicates <u>video unavailable</u> may be seen by clicking on the indicated "<u>Watch on YouTube</u>".</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HAbS5Df4BxY/YSE_7dQB4lI/AAAAAAAAIeU/_Cc67e35Hu0v8REIC7P_BcEBGaEJmonogCLcBGAsYHQ/s1024/jp.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="712" data-original-width="1024" height="223" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HAbS5Df4BxY/YSE_7dQB4lI/AAAAAAAAIeU/_Cc67e35Hu0v8REIC7P_BcEBGaEJmonogCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/jp.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-o2EiCsYbEEU/YSFAS6Od_BI/AAAAAAAAIec/rx-sz2AzjGg426lhxCjJlGYy0_VZ4VsvACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/2880px-D9016_%25285624018223%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1363" data-original-width="2048" height="213" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-o2EiCsYbEEU/YSFAS6Od_BI/AAAAAAAAIec/rx-sz2AzjGg426lhxCjJlGYy0_VZ4VsvACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/2880px-D9016_%25285624018223%2529.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-aIQpfkC15UQ/YSFDciLSouI/AAAAAAAAIes/xyyp1y90U_MTUPEghw-NbjwIaDhimjQwACLcBGAsYHQ/s1772/Rusilip_D9016_Gordon_Highlander.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1195" data-original-width="1772" height="216" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-aIQpfkC15UQ/YSFDciLSouI/AAAAAAAAIes/xyyp1y90U_MTUPEghw-NbjwIaDhimjQwACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Rusilip_D9016_Gordon_Highlander.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1unlBhX6r9E/YSFNSs3YYsI/AAAAAAAAIe4/52_5YhzsC2c9zLpU1RqZQgrtExDKxRs5ACLcBGAsYHQ/s4000/Class_55_55016_D9016_Gordon_Highlander_%252813989259268%2529-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2248" data-original-width="4000" height="180" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1unlBhX6r9E/YSFNSs3YYsI/AAAAAAAAIe4/52_5YhzsC2c9zLpU1RqZQgrtExDKxRs5ACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Class_55_55016_D9016_Gordon_Highlander_%252813989259268%2529-1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GuMl4jFyEGA/YSFNqmJL1II/AAAAAAAAIfI/jI1xVCU3BVUDjHVkv87zKpcSfB9x3E4KwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Napier_Deltic_Engine.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1404" data-original-width="2048" height="219" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GuMl4jFyEGA/YSFNqmJL1II/AAAAAAAAIfI/jI1xVCU3BVUDjHVkv87zKpcSfB9x3E4KwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Napier_Deltic_Engine.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;">The reader is invited to observe the short ladders on the corners of the locomotive, and the various hoses fitted between the two bumpers. All of these are replicated in the model, but not shown in the photographs. In the fourth YouTube video cited below, "Deltics. The Magnificent Seven", D9016 "Gordon Highlander" can be seen on one, if not its last, trip.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/tMUvzMnGz7Q" width="320" youtube-src-id="tMUvzMnGz7Q"></iframe></div><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Fozwp_eYQeQ" width="320" youtube-src-id="Fozwp_eYQeQ"></iframe></div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/V8dJrnADE4Q" width="320" youtube-src-id="V8dJrnADE4Q"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/3ap-9gh1Jcs" width="320" youtube-src-id="3ap-9gh1Jcs"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span>The Bachmann Branch-Line scale model was apparently commissioned and issued as an uncatalogued exclusive limited edition. In response to my personal query, at least one company representative stated that, “</span><span>I cannot find any details of a Bachmann Branchline model of the Class 55 Deltic No. D9016 ‘Gordon Highlander’ in our records. I wonder if the model to which you refer was renamed/renumber from a different model by a third party?” What is particularly curious is the packet of extensive correct add-on parts, and the attachment of correct silver on red embossed foil metal plates [Gordon Highlander]. As a result it is currently difficult to establish what organization or company was able to commission the production of the model, year(s) of manufacture, and number of sets produced.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> (</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Author's note: Subsequently it has been recently confirmed from a representative of TMC (The Model Centre), an extremely professional cottage industry located in North Yorkshire, Great Britain, that between 2005 and 2010 they produced 250 of this specific model. Obviously relatively rare.)</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> It did come DCC Ready. This provides illumination for cab lighting (both ends), sign number, and pair of red back lights, in an analogue model. Like its full-scale counterpart (weight:99 long tons), the model is heavy, at 611 gr (21.55 oz),, and 10.50 in. (excluding couplers) in length.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><br /></p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">The accompanying various small fittings which significantly enhance the accuracy and appearance of the model are tedious to attach, with the exception of the couplers. Personal option has been to attach everything but those parts which might potentially interfere with the range of normal intended movement of the bogies. Based upon the author's review, this "Gordon Highlander" limited edition has the most extensive set of add-on fittings of all other known versions of the Type 55 Class "Deltic" issued by Bachmann. Also due to the physical size of the six-wheel bogies, and the design of the dual drive shafts (one to each bogie), it is <u>most strongly recommended </u>(personal experience with delicate surgical reinstallation of a thrown drive shaft) that on curved track smaller than second radius (22’’, 26” or 28” radius EZ Curved Track all work well), only very slow speed operation should be attempted on 18” radius curved track.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">It is also amazing how smooth and quietly the engine runs, unlike the actual diesel which is quite loud. With the full DCC augmented sound effects operating the actual engine noise, at a scaled level, is well replicated. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">This specific “Gordon Highlander” comes in the original two-tone dark green with lime yellow lower strip livery of British Railways, which is reminiscent of the colors in the set of the Gordon tartan. A narrow 7" strip of the tartan was officially authorized to be wore at the top of the shoulder of the battledress blouse of the Gordon Highlanders during WWII.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OBtYILoYl0w/YVd_2-hE1XI/AAAAAAAAIkQ/nb4Tj51uCPUdCA4vS6USD81CRr2YV0uCgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1273/Gordon-Clan-M__18721.1393897660.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="146" data-original-width="1273" height="37" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OBtYILoYl0w/YVd_2-hE1XI/AAAAAAAAIkQ/nb4Tj51uCPUdCA4vS6USD81CRr2YV0uCgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Gordon-Clan-M__18721.1393897660.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></o:p><span style="font-family: times;">The following images and videos depict the Bachmann HO gauge locomotive. Personally am extremely impressed by what to me is a superior operating model both in accuracy and operation, although I’m obviously biased. However, several other model railroad enthusiasts in model railroading forums, and the cited YouTube videos express equivalent kudos. </span><span style="font-family: times;">The reader can make their own assessment based on the images.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OibmBV4A6J0/YSQsCxPMrSI/AAAAAAAAIgA/9qItVOJVwAY1g2UjO4tL8J_wC7u4KHChACLcBGAsYHQ/s796/1572032293IMG_4983a%2Bcopy.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="408" data-original-width="796" height="164" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OibmBV4A6J0/YSQsCxPMrSI/AAAAAAAAIgA/9qItVOJVwAY1g2UjO4tL8J_wC7u4KHChACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/1572032293IMG_4983a%2Bcopy.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4b22Lamh_zM/YSQsPNGaMvI/AAAAAAAAIgE/GAaUs4ttpMsIfXHr-Q4kq3Hgx-nkK7k5gCLcBGAsYHQ/s796/1572032282IMG_4985%2Bcopy.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="314" data-original-width="796" height="126" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4b22Lamh_zM/YSQsPNGaMvI/AAAAAAAAIgE/GAaUs4ttpMsIfXHr-Q4kq3Hgx-nkK7k5gCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/1572032282IMG_4985%2Bcopy.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-eJZ3YMIwePU/YSQscJiNxgI/AAAAAAAAIgM/V9HfStZe6LYFINhMAlJD8ulgail0PTePwCLcBGAsYHQ/s796/1572031852IMG_4983%2Bcopy.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="317" data-original-width="796" height="127" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-eJZ3YMIwePU/YSQscJiNxgI/AAAAAAAAIgM/V9HfStZe6LYFINhMAlJD8ulgail0PTePwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/1572031852IMG_4983%2Bcopy.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MZU2n5HICm8/YSQsr425NdI/AAAAAAAAIgY/J4wxcolx_e4z1ynOcT-M5dwt-dfkJ2xnQCLcBGAsYHQ/s876/1572032287IMG_4986%2Bcopy.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="570" data-original-width="876" height="208" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MZU2n5HICm8/YSQsr425NdI/AAAAAAAAIgY/J4wxcolx_e4z1ynOcT-M5dwt-dfkJ2xnQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/1572032287IMG_4986%2Bcopy.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RRb33PZ17j0/YSFP9K0KTII/AAAAAAAAIf4/gp8mdujnz-s2QtIxyeIHpp0MAlxKHAEtgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1100/1572031858IMG_4984.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="825" data-original-width="1100" height="240" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RRb33PZ17j0/YSFP9K0KTII/AAAAAAAAIf4/gp8mdujnz-s2QtIxyeIHpp0MAlxKHAEtgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/1572031858IMG_4984.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Wp16uQz1mHw" width="320" youtube-src-id="Wp16uQz1mHw"></iframe></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/aLm-XYl3rw0" width="320" youtube-src-id="aLm-XYl3rw0"></iframe></div><br /><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />Arnhemjimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01794722964883335445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2956713848009971988.post-54582607093797980782021-05-27T14:29:00.015-07:002021-07-18T17:12:00.700-07:00Another Tilt at a Windmill by Don Quixote<p><span style="font-family: times;"> <span face="Calibri, sans-serif">In addition to a few “Forrest Gump” type moments during my dual professional careers as a military systems engineer, and naval intelligence officer, I also experienced some other Don Quixote encounters in tilting with windmills, beyond previously described events chronicled in this blog. This one however turned out to be a lot more favorable.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">In the later part of May 1973, I had reached the rank of a senior Lieut-Commander in the Naval Intelligence Reserve. For my two weeks active duty annual training I was assigned to the headquarters of Commander, 3rd Fleet, on Ford Island, Hawaii. The fleet had originally been established 15 March 1942, under the command of Adm. William F. “Bull” Halsey Jr. <span></span>In 1973<span> </span>it was under command of VADM William T. Rapp.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EixrJfDLYs8/YLD6w4fEQCI/AAAAAAAAIVk/ueAFy54e76EVBRO_eL8b80vbzTQnQDdfgCLcBGAsYHQ/s592/UpdatedCommandersMAR2020-2%2Bcopy.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="592" data-original-width="396" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EixrJfDLYs8/YLD6w4fEQCI/AAAAAAAAIVk/ueAFy54e76EVBRO_eL8b80vbzTQnQDdfgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/UpdatedCommandersMAR2020-2%2Bcopy.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: times;">I never had the privilege of personally meeting FLTADM William F. "Bull Halsey. However, I was serving in the USS Princeton (LPH-5) when the ship was used as a location (pier side Long Beach, CA) for the movie "<i>The Gallant Hours</i>" when it was made in 1960. The following is an image of FLTADM Halsey circa 1945, followed by one I took of Jimmy Cagney portraying the admiral, talking to Dennis Weaver (TV series Gunsmoke 1955), with Ward Costello to the right hand side. Suffices, Jimmy Cagney was extremely well cast for the role.</span><div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QYGYGjpaSto/YLgcBFihjzI/AAAAAAAAIWE/qbUpslt1VlINU5BWp5-oB4E4R4-Xr5Z_QCLcBGAsYHQ/s577/Bull%252BHalsey-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="577" data-original-width="504" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QYGYGjpaSto/YLgcBFihjzI/AAAAAAAAIWE/qbUpslt1VlINU5BWp5-oB4E4R4-Xr5Z_QCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Bull%252BHalsey-1.jpg" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kp9Z-A77N1Q/YLgcZ4m4lKI/AAAAAAAAIWQ/LWkt9k7achYCL-z6ttg0QXuYxh-TRzV8QCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/8-B13.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1081" data-original-width="1600" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kp9Z-A77N1Q/YLgcZ4m4lKI/AAAAAAAAIWQ/LWkt9k7achYCL-z6ttg0QXuYxh-TRzV8QCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/8-B13.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div>The following photograph is of VADM William T. Rapp, who obviously I did meet during my active duty tour.<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jNNlTOeXgBk/YLD7HCzNzlI/AAAAAAAAIVs/ZwTa7ZUGbcMX84cfK_nlvTAxdFKdz3M_QCLcBGAsYHQ/s601/UpdatedCommandersMAR2020-2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="601" data-original-width="396" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jNNlTOeXgBk/YLD7HCzNzlI/AAAAAAAAIVs/ZwTa7ZUGbcMX84cfK_nlvTAxdFKdz3M_QCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/UpdatedCommandersMAR2020-2.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">VADM Rapp was similar in stature to ADM Halsey, also a naval aviator, and of a very similar personality, a veritable bulldog. His office and headquarters intentionally reinforced the comparison with photographs and memorabilia from ADM Halsey’s WWII era. With my designator having changed from 1100 (unrestricted line) to 1635 (intelligence) I was assigned to ADM Rapp’s N-2 (Intelligence) shop which was under command of CDR Earl Bowersox, with his assistant LCDR Bill Armbruster. Both of these gentlemen were extremely competent and intensely dedicated. I was there with a close friend LCDR Albert “Larry” Tuma from the same Naval Reserve Intelligence Unit, at the time located at Terminal Island, Long Beach, CA. The duty afforded both of us, who were approaching selection for promotion to Commander (major career point), a great opportunity for a significant fitness report from a three-star admiral.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">CDR Bowersox had conceived and was advancing a concept regarding the projected employment of the Soviet Navy’s Pacific Fleet. LCDR Tuma and I were given the task of further analyzing the thesis, and articulating same in a finished intelligence document to be forwarded to the Chief of Naval Operations for concurrence, endorsement and promulgation as guidance to the entire United States Navy. Commander Bowersox had the title, “AVANT GARDE, The Threat Package Concept”, all we had to do was to develop and co-author the report under his “guidance", i.e. direction, all in two weeks. Suffices a bit of a challenge. As the contents were classified “SECRET-NOFORN”, although nearly 5 decades later, I can’t discuss the document further.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">As LCDR Tuma and I were unaccompanied by family, we could devote a lot of hours to the assignment, my contribution principally being the technical knowledge, and LCDR Tuma, the ability to research the supporting reference documentation. We completed our final draft, and both received outstanding fitness reports.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">Returning to my civilian job the following Monday, I took the opportunity to mention to my immediate boss, that I had a unique opportunity, without any substrative details, due to “Need to Know” requirements, regardless of his having the requisite security clearances. He more or less “patted me on the head, and blew me off”, directing me to return to my rather mundane task of reviewing and editing one-function engineering drawings.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">Approximately six weeks passed and my boss called me into his office and told me that retired navy CAPT Tom Buell, one of our Honeywell sales representatives, who worked in our Washington,DC (Tysons Corner,VA) offices had visited one of his friends in the Pentagon’s E Ring. Continuing in a typical rather haughty tenor he advised me that one of Tom’s friends had given him a copy of a very recent document from the CNO’s office that was being promulgated for fleet wide guidance. Apparently that officer thought Tom had the need to know. My boss advised that perhaps I should review the document in order that I was up to date on the latest navy thinking on the Soviet Naval threat. Suffices he hadn’t even bothered to glance at the title page, just inside the document’s front cover, in which CDR Bowersox had very graciously acknowledged me as the principal author by full name, rank and affiliated unit. It was with a rather sadistic mind-set that I pointed the fact out to him. Needless to say, no significant response was forthcoming, while he ate crow, big time.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">Given that opportunity, as well as several others with 3 star fleet commands, afforded me being selected for promotion to Commander, and subsequently to Captain.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></o:p></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />Arnhemjimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01794722964883335445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2956713848009971988.post-85430211469116679992021-05-17T13:01:00.005-07:002021-05-17T14:17:19.835-07:00A Brief Note from Arnhem Jim<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">The author would like to take this brief opportunity to apologize to all followers, as well as new readers of the Arnhem Jim log, for the recent absence of any new posts. My sincere thanks for your sustaining and encouraging support during these challenging times. The past year 2020, as well as the current year, will certainly go down in history as unprecedented. In reflection I am personally amazed that given all the circumstances, I was able to produce the number of posts I did. Am certain like the vast majority of the world’s population I have experienced a combination of angst and depression. The latter has not exactly been conducive to original thought, let alone productivity. Personally, I would question any individual’s veracity who contends they haven’t experienced some level of one or both maladies during the course of recent times.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">In addition to self-imposed quarantine, the record-breaking temperatures (113 deg F.+ for weeks) has added a supplemental challenge.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">All that having been said, I would encourage all readers to use the full chronology of the past eleven years of posts as a handy reference base for any questions you might have regarding Operation Market-Garden, the Battle of Arnhem/Oosterbeek, and British Airborne Forces during World War II.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">Obviously readers are encouraged to continue posing any questions, as well as submit any corrections/additions, to all of the archived posts. It has been my very good fortune to learn a great deal from the combined knowledge of the readership of the Arnhem Jim blog.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">A continuing Slàinte Mhòr! to All,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">Arnhem Jim </span></p>Arnhemjimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01794722964883335445noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2956713848009971988.post-57280061244878671702020-11-24T10:38:00.004-08:002020-11-24T15:48:31.682-08:00British Army Coloured Field Service Caps 1937 to 1941 <p> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Unlike the almost universally unpopular Broderick cap, the Field Service Cap (also referred to as the side cap or forage cap) first introduced into the British Army in 1894, saw a much-welcomed rebirth in 1937. This author has had a few recent inquiries from readers asking assistance in identifying from WWII black and white photographs containing an individual wearing a coloured field service cap, the regiment or corps. Surprisingly, given a combination of the crown, body, piping, and peak, and the cap badge (sometimes obscured), the owner’s regiment or corps can, if not identified outright, be narrowed down significantly.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">In conducting research for one lady, I discovered that there were no less than 126 separate authorized caps. This was established in a table by the late Brian L. Davis, contained in his definitive reference, <i>British Army Uniforms & Insignia of World War Two</i>, Which is both acknowledged and gratitude expressed. Some were solely differentiated by cap badge, however a significant number were in a combination of colours. As colorful as they are, I thought it would be of potential interest to compose a post showing a representative sample. I’m indebted to a book entitled <i>Military collectables</i>, by Joe Lyndhurst, which is acknowledged and gratitude expressed. It includes two pages of photographs of the actual caps. In addition several publishers produced a whole series of coloured pamphlets throughout the entire span of WWII. The series of drawings depicted in 1941 by George Philip & Son (and cited by Brian Davis) while not quite as colorful and accurate, are the best known contemporary reference of all the caps in use during the period from 1937 - 1941.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mATkh_TCQ3g/X71Qou2oocI/AAAAAAAAIKE/FUDLD_e4ZlsVUkTF7xCgxv3F3B9WakWCgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/0001.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1583" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mATkh_TCQ3g/X71Qou2oocI/AAAAAAAAIKE/FUDLD_e4ZlsVUkTF7xCgxv3F3B9WakWCgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/0001.jpg" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1088" data-original-width="1408" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-m51ndDPu9Do/X71Sn_J3rOI/AAAAAAAAILM/_Yv4jh46qxAZnML-j5fCG7xzcMYMQveGACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Picture%2B012.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iZnkqKki0as/X71Sujn44lI/AAAAAAAAILU/dErpEbTGyDcJLf4JmJ7hSGEeIjB6nkL9ACLcBGAsYHQ/s1376/Picture%2B013.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1074" data-original-width="1376" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iZnkqKki0as/X71Sujn44lI/AAAAAAAAILU/dErpEbTGyDcJLf4JmJ7hSGEeIjB6nkL9ACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Picture%2B013.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p>Arnhemjimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01794722964883335445noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2956713848009971988.post-26752175616103476242020-11-10T14:24:00.031-08:002021-04-24T10:03:00.754-07:00Not You Again Don Quixote - Another Windmill?<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;">On the Internet today (10 November 2020) at a blog site called the SANDBOXX News (https://www.sandboxx.us/blog/), there appeared a very interesting, at least to this author, post. It was entitled, B-1B Gunship: Boeing’s plan to put big guns on the Lancer. It was written by Alex Hollings, a former Marine specializing in foreign policy and defense technology analysis. Fundamentally it advanced the concept of converting the Rockwell B-1B Lancer Bomber from a supersonic heavy payload bomber to a high performance version of the Lockheed AC-130H and J Spectre Gunships. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;">With full acknowledgement and expressed gratitude to both the SANDBOXX and Alex Hollings the entire article is repeated herein;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14.6667px;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;">B-1B Gunship: Boeing’s plan to run big guns on the Lancer<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;">Alex Hollings | November 9, 2020</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H-RO1ZntCeI/X6s6cFIWCAI/AAAAAAAAIIE/_cwTYEiIOzkzBwXwZuFRSp4TaEVYV9rrQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1260/021105-O-9999G-018.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1260" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H-RO1ZntCeI/X6s6cFIWCAI/AAAAAAAAIIE/_cwTYEiIOzkzBwXwZuFRSp4TaEVYV9rrQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/021105-O-9999G-018.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span></p>The B-1B Lancer has long served as America’s only supersonic heavy payload bomber, but for a time, Boeing considered extended its life as a high-speed gunship that would combine the firepower of the Spooky AC-130 gunship with the speed and maneuverability of an oversized fighter.</span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;">The Rockwell B-1B Lancer is a viable sweep-wing bomber straight out of the Cold War, complete with massively powerful engines that grant it both immense speed and a payload capacity that exceeds that of the gargantuan B-52 Stratofortress. The first B-1 took to the skies in 1974, but the platform itself didn’t enter service until more than ten years later, thanks to the complex and rapidly developing technological environment of the Cold War. Slated to be replaced by platforms like the AGM-86 cruise missile and the B-2 Spirit stealth bomber before it even entered service, the B-1B Lancer has defied the odds for over four decades.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4r5_3xaAuns/X6s6s1YlFrI/AAAAAAAAIIM/j4dVK8dxHS4TghDP9sv8OBhYuEcne6shQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2000/full.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="2000" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4r5_3xaAuns/X6s6s1YlFrI/AAAAAAAAIIM/j4dVK8dxHS4TghDP9sv8OBhYuEcne6shQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/full.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;"></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;">The B-1B can fly like this with the equivalent of three school busses worth of bombs in its weapons bays. (USAF Photo)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;">Today, it’s once again expected to be sent out to pasture in favor of the next stealth bomber, the forthcoming B-21 Raider, but in 2018, Boeing began toying with the idea of stretching out the Lancer’s shelf life by adding close air support to its mission profile.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;">How do you take a supersonic bomber and turn it into a close air support titan? According to patents filed by Boeing, it’s as simple as adding some really big guns.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yEosqD2TGIo/X6s66BtIE3I/AAAAAAAAIIQ/KFkw7TpQSJkwB3GqXhmTMkJTy39zRUG-ACLcBGAsYHQ/s1892/IMG_20201110_0004.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="988" data-original-width="1892" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yEosqD2TGIo/X6s66BtIE3I/AAAAAAAAIIQ/KFkw7TpQSJkwB3GqXhmTMkJTy39zRUG-ACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_20201110_0004.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p>The patent actually depicts a number of different cannon-mounting solutions for the B-1B Lancer, including a system that places a retractable cannon in the Lancer’s large weapons bays. What makes these patents of particular interest is that they seem to require very little in the way of permanent modifications to the aircraft itself, meaning the conversion could be less expensive than broader overhauls. The lower the cost of such an effort, the more feasible it becomes — especially in terms of the B-1B, which is renowned for its high cost of operation.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-l5ep2bjtJA8/X6s7MuFB7NI/AAAAAAAAIIc/jL4sTvig-CgeEsZA7iy4UYtrCAM053NggCLcBGAsYHQ/s1708/IMG_20201110_0005.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1260" data-original-width="1708" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-l5ep2bjtJA8/X6s7MuFB7NI/AAAAAAAAIIc/jL4sTvig-CgeEsZA7iy4UYtrCAM053NggCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_20201110_0005.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;"></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;">By making the weapon retractable, it minimizes aerodynamic drag when the weapon is not in use. (US Patent Office)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;">Based on the illustrations, it appears as though Boeing doesn’t have its heart set on a specific cannon, and even shows two different sizes of them mounted in the same apparatus. Visually, these cannons look very similar to M230 30mm cannons or the Bushmaster cannon, which can run from 25mms to 40mms in size, as The Warzone has pointed out.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;">There would, in fact, be some benefit to Boeing’s approach to mounting these weapons on the B-1B as compared to the new AC-130J Ghostrider gunship and its predecessor, the Spooky AC-130. In the C-130-based gunships, the massive 105mm cannons are longitudinally mounted in a fixed cowling on the left side of the aircraft. In order to engage targets, Ghostrider gunships have to bank and circle over the target area to point the large cannon in the right direction.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0Rwd3wzBgnk/X6v0vPYoleI/AAAAAAAAIJE/iLMT6abQWZcqN9gnWG2Ei0pwYa1wuzAYwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1024/c714f05d67b32cf61eb874f5f9a79282.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="695" data-original-width="1024" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0Rwd3wzBgnk/X6v0vPYoleI/AAAAAAAAIJE/iLMT6abQWZcqN9gnWG2Ei0pwYa1wuzAYwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/c714f05d67b32cf61eb874f5f9a79282.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">By extending a cannon apparatus down from beneath the belly of the B-1B, the weapon can rotate a full 360 degrees while making target adjustments through a fire control module. This would allow a B-1B gunship to keep its weapon oriented on the target while the aircraft conducts various maneuvers.</span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;">However, there are also some significant limitations that one can’t help but consider when pitching the idea of a B-1B Gunship. Because the B-1B is designed to serve as a high-speed bombing platform, it almost certainly can’t maintain the low speeds achievable in an AC-130, despite its swing-wing design. The B-1B is also far more expensive to operate per hour than the still-in-production AC-130.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LWls7VRTiNI/X6s7xBQRSHI/AAAAAAAAIIs/Jh4Gl2sokwEpQonjflSC_iDDES1al4uIwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1024/4628047385_e980439838_b.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="683" data-original-width="1024" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LWls7VRTiNI/X6s7xBQRSHI/AAAAAAAAIIs/Jh4Gl2sokwEpQonjflSC_iDDES1al4uIwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/4628047385_e980439838_b.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;">On the other hand, a B-1B Gunship could reach trouble spots far faster than any AC-130. The B-1B tops out at a blistering Mach 1.2, as compared to the AC-130 Ghostrider, which can’t exceed 420 miles per hour.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;">“They’re tuned for down low and mid-level altitudes, so you pretty much get pushed back into your seat,” Major “Coyote” Laney, a B-1B pilot instructor from the 28th Bomb Squadron, told me in 2019 during an interview for Popular Mechanics.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;">“The acceleration just keeps on coming—you can go right through the sound barrier pretty quick,”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;">Not as crazy as it might seem?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NTLWnjCzvQI/X6s8his4p0I/AAAAAAAAII0/dcxM7YfsClY3DK3eneuttOMtA2ZRsFmFwCLcBGAsYHQ/s640/s-l640.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="423" data-original-width="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NTLWnjCzvQI/X6s8his4p0I/AAAAAAAAII0/dcxM7YfsClY3DK3eneuttOMtA2ZRsFmFwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/s-l640.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;"></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;">Despite being designed to penetrate Soviet airspace by flying fast and low, the B-1B Lancer has nonetheless found itself serving in a close air support role at times throughout the past two decades of the Global War on Terror. Thanks to the addition of a Lockheed Martin-sourced Sniper Advanced Targeting Pod, the Lancer can now deliver ordinance more precisely than ever before. The bomber’s massive fuel stores and heavy payload capabilities allow the B-1B to loiter over a combat zone for hours, before using its onboard fire control system to manage targeting data relayed from ground troops or its sniper pod to deliver ordnance with pinpoint accuracy.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;">“I remember in Afghanistan where troops needed help across the entire country and I could go 1.2 Mach all the way there and still have enough gas to hang out when I got there,” Laney explained.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;">“So you can take a platform that’s on the East side of Afghanistan and 15 or 20 minutes later, I’m showing up when there’s no one else for several hundred miles that could help.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;">However, it seems clear that American ground forces don’t like to rely on precision-munitions from high-flying or far-flung weapons systems when they’re engaging the enemy. The long-standing love affair between U.S. military grunts and the A-10 Thunderbolt II speaks to this preference. When it comes to engaging the bad guys, ground troops prefer aircraft that actually have their eyes on the target.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;">However, a B-1B gunship may be able to split this difference by utilizing a combination of precision-guided bombs and onboard cannons. As it stands, B-1B Lancers are already capable of putting on quite the spectacle when delivering air support to ground troops.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;">“If I’m talking to a guy on the ground and I have my sensor on him … we can drop weapons seven miles away, or we can drop lower, drop them closer,” said Lt. Col. Dominic “Beaver” Ross, director of operations for the 337th Test and Evaluations Squadron.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;">“We’re not going to drop them as low as an A-10, but we are going to do shows of force where we’re 500 feet overtop of their head.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;">Will a B-1B Gunship ever actually happen?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;">That’s tough to say, but for now at least, it seems unlikely… but that doesn’t mean the end for this concept or these patents. The premise of installing modular close-air support cannons in an aircraft like the B-1B could easily be modified for use in other aircraft as well. In fact, the Air Force is already experimenting with the idea of using modular weapons systems in aircraft that were intended for cargo carrying purposes.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;">Currently, the B-1B is expected to slip into retirement in the later end of the 2020s, as more B-21 Raiders roll off the assembly line and into service. While the forthcoming stealth bomber promises to be the most advanced aircraft of its type ever to take to the skies, it doesn’t offer many of the same capabilities the B-1B does. Like the B-2 Spirit it will also replace, the B-21 is expected to be subsonic, leveraging its stealth more than its speed to accomplish its missions.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;">Geopolitically, the B-21 may also be more complicated to use than the B-1B. The Lancer was converted into a strictly non-nuclear bomber platform in 2011, in accordance with the START Treaty between the United States and Russia. Retiring the B-1B will mean using nuclear capable B-21s for conventional airstrikes, which, because of its use a nuclear-weapon delivery bomber, could exacerbate tensions with America’s diplomatic opponents. Headlines claiming America is sending “nuclear bombers” to any region B-21s are deployed to would technically be accurate, despite misrepresenting the role these bombers may play.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;">In that regard, the B-1B may see some lawmakers and defense officials championing its continued service as has happened in the past. When a new airframe is slated to replace an old one, but lacks the capabilities of its predecessor, there will always be some arguing in favor of old and reliable.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-O8xcppTNsSI/X6s9qPzuTcI/AAAAAAAAII8/gVw8pA1wXEIiAGFP52ZIHlg3PQ3033nPgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1920/1920x1080.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-O8xcppTNsSI/X6s9qPzuTcI/AAAAAAAAII8/gVw8pA1wXEIiAGFP52ZIHlg3PQ3033nPgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/1920x1080.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span></p>While it seems unlikely that we’ll see B-1B gunships in the air any time soon… In the rapidly shifting world of defense priorities, one can never say never."</span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;">Alex Hollings</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;">Now for the Don Quixote Part - A Rather Interesting Retrospective and Discovery</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">In 1993 this author was working on the McDonnell Douglas C-17A Program in Long Beach, California, as a Manager for the Improvements & Derivatives Program. Several of my own concepts, as well as others from members of the group were compiled and published in a brochure (cover and pages shown below) One of my concepts was to modify the C-17A Globemaster II to an up-scaled Super Spectre version of the Lockheed AC-130 Spectre gunship series, already highly successful having been well proven in combat operations. That was 25 years before the Boeing Company filled for Patent No.: US 9,963,231 B2 dated May, 8, 2018. The principal argument advanced in opposition to the concept was that the C-17 was too expensive an asset for exposure at the projected operational altitudes for the threat environment. Apparently several ill-informed yet influential individuals thought it would be flying at the same altitudes as the AC-130 gunships. Any patent application never even entered the discussions. As those familiar with the aerospace industry McDonnell-Douglas ceased to exist in 1997, having been acquired by Boeing. Having had the opportunity to work for Boeing early in my career as a young engineer, and passed it up at that time for very good reason (hire and lay-off with individual contracts) suffices to say I retired the next year. <br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">However, I believe even the casual reader will notice the rather pronounced similarities in the projected Boeing modification of the Lockheed B-1B and the concept that was proposed in the McDonnell Douglas corporate brochure for the C-17A in 1993. I'm seriously interested as to who within Boeing might have found a copy of the brochure, or are we talking sheer coincidence. I'll probably never know.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xZe2U3pSbXM/X6sOm1m1PWI/AAAAAAAAIHs/z0wS-vMaNKAmc-43NChWLxzwzOa7iJJJQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_20201110_0002.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1912" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xZe2U3pSbXM/X6sOm1m1PWI/AAAAAAAAIHs/z0wS-vMaNKAmc-43NChWLxzwzOa7iJJJQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_20201110_0002.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><br /></span></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1nycFTcOmNg/X6sO1SMLT9I/AAAAAAAAIHw/Ol6_32VaqlUHKOu2upetwlq7o_1BNZ7QQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_20201110_0001.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1919" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1nycFTcOmNg/X6sO1SMLT9I/AAAAAAAAIHw/Ol6_32VaqlUHKOu2upetwlq7o_1BNZ7QQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_20201110_0001.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rx5ROB0SxB8/X6sPJC5-ttI/AAAAAAAAIH8/9iRVCqdnYSkFOJZKS7zBR9vfg7w4lo0_wCLcBGAsYHQ/s1500/Enlarged%2Bmount%2BAC-17%2BGunship.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1373" data-original-width="1500" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rx5ROB0SxB8/X6sPJC5-ttI/AAAAAAAAIH8/9iRVCqdnYSkFOJZKS7zBR9vfg7w4lo0_wCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Enlarged%2Bmount%2BAC-17%2BGunship.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">As was the case in other previous episodes presented in this blog, Don Quixote was unseated from his mount by yet another windmill.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">For those readers who may have a further interest the following video is provided.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span><span style="font-family: times;"> </span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/E4dkF2pPnM0" width="320" youtube-src-id="E4dkF2pPnM0"></iframe></span></div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span><p></p>Arnhemjimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01794722964883335445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2956713848009971988.post-50808704355157675832020-10-19T09:12:00.099-07:002023-04-02T11:44:00.085-07:00A Different Kind of Gordon Highlander for My Toy Soldier Collection<p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">As the reader can infer from the title of this post, this author intends to take a diversion from the scope of normal subject matter of this blog. There is a connection, as soon will be revealed, which I hope will prove interesting.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">A longtime self-confessed “magpie” or “gallimaufry” (Scottish for bits and pieces) type collector, I consider myself extremely fortunate in my mid-eighties to have somehow avoided being afflicted to date with the model train bacteria. Have to admit that growing up I did have, on loan from my uncle, an early Lionel electric train set which was returned for his children, as my interest in toy soldiers had started. There also was a General Mills Kix Cereal 1947 combination printed on the box and mail-in premiums of cut-out trains which were a popular sales promotional (now having become a collectable antique).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">The other singular exception being the more recent collection of a limited number of the Lionel/Hallmark (nominally N gauge - being introduced in 1996) Christmas tree ornaments over the years. Judging from my most recent Internet research it can become highly addictive, and an extreme and continuous drain on the sporran. None the less, I feel it safe to say that model train collectors are an extremely prolific breed, and for quite some time have far outnumbered, and continue to outnumber, toy soldier collectors.</span></p><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oO7MUCqqtVo/YUypwbpYtII/AAAAAAAAIic/TNfgb6_HblM3LHxA22OP_hRHL_fvTWxwgCLcBGAsYHQ/s488/214_6835_ucp.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="315" data-original-width="488" height="207" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oO7MUCqqtVo/YUypwbpYtII/AAAAAAAAIic/TNfgb6_HblM3LHxA22OP_hRHL_fvTWxwgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/214_6835_ucp.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cqWKQt-L_9s/YUyp6TFcIcI/AAAAAAAAIig/rY6sMIH36Oo0LXYGNtyveUpQDPgslwWNgCLcBGAsYHQ/s602/214_4705_ucp.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="426" data-original-width="602" height="226" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cqWKQt-L_9s/YUyp6TFcIcI/AAAAAAAAIig/rY6sMIH36Oo0LXYGNtyveUpQDPgslwWNgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/214_4705_ucp.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">In any event I would be totally less than candid if I did not readily admit to a life-long fascination with small scale toy trains/model railroading, and the engineering precision the hobby incorporates, somewhat analogous to a jeweler or horologist (watchmaker). </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">However, very recently an opportunity appeared on e-Bay that was too good to pass up. This is obviously a rationalization at best. It was an HO scale locomotive set comprised of the engine, tender, and corridor brake 3rd class coach by Bachmann of a classic LMS “Royal Scot” Class 4-6-0 6P 6100 Series. For those who might not know the letters stand for London, Midlands and Scottish Railway Company. However, more specifically the model I have acquired is Engine 6106 “Gordon Highlander” of the series. 70 actual locomotives were built in the Class, starting in 1927, with the majority being named after regiments of the British Army. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Based on my research to date the model was first offered in 1998.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> Given my family surname, Scottish ancestry, and interest in British/Scottish military history, the reason for my personal interest immediately becomes rather obvious.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">A brief segue occurred to the author. Is it merely a coincidence that the distinctive deep maroon livery of the LMS is the same colour originally selected for that of the famous "Red Beret" of the Parachute Regiment of the British Army?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Although several model train manufacturers have produced excellent models of various configurations of the "Royal Scot Class" in various scales, to the best of my knowledge the Bachmann Company is the only one to have produced a "Gordon Highlander" in LMS maroon livery. It was produced in OO gauge. (Author's Note: Both Wrenn and Graham Farish produce a "Gordon Highlander", but neither in the classic LMS maroon livery). In my personal opinion, for an OO scale size, I think they did a great job, but will let the reader be the judge of that, hopefully based on the images presented. The high end connoisseur manufacturer of toy trains, the British Company named Wrenn offer a Royal Scot Class "Gordon Highlander" locomotive in black livery. Wrenn's OO gauge version of the Royal Scot Class in LMS maroon livery is shown, with acknowledgement and gratitude, in the last two images below. One other observation, unlike toy soldiers and military miniatures, model train makers do not take creative artistic license. The exceptions known to the author (there are always exceptions) being the popular "Gordon the Tank Train" series, and the Harry Potter "Hogwarts Express", but neither one passed off as an actual train. As a consequence the models are an extremely accurate replication of exactly the real thing, with the possible exception of the level of detail practically not attainable in some of the physically smaller scales such as N and Z gauge.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IEMJIf-rNkY/X421D9A6FZI/AAAAAAAAIDs/dF3ZPNlmgJoySXB0olHYe-CQcGKsZjRAACLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/s-l1600.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IEMJIf-rNkY/X421D9A6FZI/AAAAAAAAIDs/dF3ZPNlmgJoySXB0olHYe-CQcGKsZjRAACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/s-l1600.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_OOWw0QiKiE/X421UYUEcPI/AAAAAAAAID0/bbPkSntzp9ws6xevBxIT6JRQVTSHu4sZgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/s-l1600-3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_OOWw0QiKiE/X421UYUEcPI/AAAAAAAAID0/bbPkSntzp9ws6xevBxIT6JRQVTSHu4sZgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/s-l1600-3.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FvJYPMw4670/X421v6QzSuI/AAAAAAAAIEA/JPsM7L6xOJQzdVyf66DJNWUUA_Ezv2oUQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/s-l1600-5.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FvJYPMw4670/X421v6QzSuI/AAAAAAAAIEA/JPsM7L6xOJQzdVyf66DJNWUUA_Ezv2oUQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/s-l1600-5.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FhfmPB-LNPo/X422BfpNiBI/AAAAAAAAIEM/BKkOVPPn8c0T32fkLWn-IXjQ708F6M8vgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/s-l1600-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FhfmPB-LNPo/X422BfpNiBI/AAAAAAAAIEM/BKkOVPPn8c0T32fkLWn-IXjQ708F6M8vgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/s-l1600-1.jpg" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CSQ_tmt7HgE/X6P_HldNvRI/AAAAAAAAIHE/X8USc52pfAghr3JhOF2-ZvIYv9kIO1kMwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/s-l1600%2Bcopy%2B3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CSQ_tmt7HgE/X6P_HldNvRI/AAAAAAAAIHE/X8USc52pfAghr3JhOF2-ZvIYv9kIO1kMwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/s-l1600%2Bcopy%2B3.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zJhM3j3AuKo/X6P_q-vWsXI/AAAAAAAAIHU/WaW9Np7d0cQvi5v9zND3gGQRJnWWBa8XQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/s-l1600-1%2Bcopy%2B2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zJhM3j3AuKo/X6P_q-vWsXI/AAAAAAAAIHU/WaW9Np7d0cQvi5v9zND3gGQRJnWWBa8XQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/s-l1600-1%2Bcopy%2B2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JHnllp4ZT1A/X4-H-y97FQI/AAAAAAAAIFU/KMZgA4AjbWIOn3v_ITUI4zUZ_MfnfBAcwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1626/trains-090317-76860.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1626" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JHnllp4ZT1A/X4-H-y97FQI/AAAAAAAAIFU/KMZgA4AjbWIOn3v_ITUI4zUZ_MfnfBAcwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/trains-090317-76860.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qayNJyHVv54/X4-IP9aOOoI/AAAAAAAAIFc/flwEogTf_-Q0k5BTpBY7zsC7n343poxjACLcBGAsYHQ/s1242/trains-090317-76859.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="825" data-original-width="1242" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qayNJyHVv54/X4-IP9aOOoI/AAAAAAAAIFc/flwEogTf_-Q0k5BTpBY7zsC7n343poxjACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/trains-090317-76859.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>In a addition, and subsequent to the initial acquisition of the "Gordon Highlander", have been able to locate another 4 Bachmann, and 3 Hornby models in matching scale and LMS livery, the first one is a uniquely British coach. It is called a Brake Gangwayed (BG), or Full Brake Coach first offered in 2011. It has a guard's compartment in the center and two large highly secure areas to either side (fore and aft) for the storage of valuable luggage, as can be seen in the following image.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nxTp7D7tlM8/X6OGzjDeX3I/AAAAAAAAIG8/2RlyeQqYZIAbLBUJvJ6qnJM_nsRt-jaqQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1535/bachmannIMG_1985.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="488" data-original-width="1535" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nxTp7D7tlM8/X6OGzjDeX3I/AAAAAAAAIG8/2RlyeQqYZIAbLBUJvJ6qnJM_nsRt-jaqQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/bachmannIMG_1985.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>The second is a more conventional 57 ft Corridor 1st/3rd Class Coach, and can be seen in the following image.</div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cmfUY6RTLaI/X8YJXXM_ffI/AAAAAAAAIL8/glvmLRZ0Sxs6nnLKads9H4a8QcvQSfXKACLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/s-l1600-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="572" data-original-width="1600" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cmfUY6RTLaI/X8YJXXM_ffI/AAAAAAAAIL8/glvmLRZ0Sxs6nnLKads9H4a8QcvQSfXKACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/s-l1600-1.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="text-align: left;"> </span></div></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">The third is the so called former LMS 57 ft Porthole Corridor 1st Class Coach (actually not put in service until 1950) in the next images (model followed by actual coach).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">The fourth is a Hornby model of a 68 ft Dining Car (note 6 wheel bogies incorporated for requisite load carrying capacity, comfort and stability) which was introduced into service in 1932 (Running Number 238), and seen here. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">As both a model and as the real coach, this is a big car (44 tons).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yCTIFNXjAVY/X_XpnS0vYQI/AAAAAAAAINk/c7f44xKPj_0ZulxashBOC61xYy_l_FuPACLcBGAsYHQ/s1492/s-l1600.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="483" data-original-width="1492" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yCTIFNXjAVY/X_XpnS0vYQI/AAAAAAAAINk/c7f44xKPj_0ZulxashBOC61xYy_l_FuPACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/s-l1600.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Author’s note: In an attempt to replicate a LMS Stanier 66 ft “QL” (BR “RFO”) First Class Vestibule Diner, of correct vintage, to accompany the previously described LMS 68 ft Dining Car, the closest I could come s a Bachmann 39-476 LMS 60 ft “Porthole” Open Vestibule Coach BR in Maroon livery (obviously later Period III- 1947). The following first image is the correct actual LMS Vestibule Diner, circa 1934, and the second image is a sixth OO gauge Bachmann “equivalent” model.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sK-N-L0vdYk/YN4ijSJNFmI/AAAAAAAAIZQ/-LMU7e93bFkGEBIOmOL4hC6iKnFHoNTVQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/2880px-LMS_Stanier_65_-QL-_%2528BR_-RFO-%2529_First_Class_Vestibule_Diner_No.7511_%25286908029676%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1212" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sK-N-L0vdYk/YN4ijSJNFmI/AAAAAAAAIZQ/-LMU7e93bFkGEBIOmOL4hC6iKnFHoNTVQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/2880px-LMS_Stanier_65_-QL-_%2528BR_-RFO-%2529_First_Class_Vestibule_Diner_No.7511_%25286908029676%2529.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gNkz_cwwc_M/YN4kKj9ALRI/AAAAAAAAIZ4/8hoKn8xA088RY3ga8uPO8mdo3zuu8f4JgCLcBGAsYHQ/s996/bachmann-39-476-lms-60ft-porthole-open-vestible-first-coach-br-maroon-11340-p.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="363" data-original-width="996" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gNkz_cwwc_M/YN4kKj9ALRI/AAAAAAAAIZ4/8hoKn8xA088RY3ga8uPO8mdo3zuu8f4JgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/bachmann-39-476-lms-60ft-porthole-open-vestible-first-coach-br-maroon-11340-p.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">I have been further advised by experts that my ratio of coaches should be 3:1, Third class to First class. In order to partially rectify this, have acquired an additional LMS 57 ft Corridor Third Class coach (again Period III) to add to the rake, making a total of seven coaches (image follows).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-focy7drEeo0/YUz2-2S_e4I/AAAAAAAAIi0/rQYYKqiZPqgiOvhL7sgag63hZtlP6IjQACLcBGAsYHQ/s1495/3094_1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="386" data-original-width="1495" height="83" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-focy7drEeo0/YUz2-2S_e4I/AAAAAAAAIi0/rQYYKqiZPqgiOvhL7sgag63hZtlP6IjQACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/3094_1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">The eighth is a Hornby model of a classic Royal Mail Coach complete with operating pickup and delivery stations. These Traveling Post Offices (TPO's) were normally composed in completely separate rakes, and not in a passenger rake.</span></div><p></p></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vM6dW2geZ0w/YHHzgcvrrVI/AAAAAAAAIR8/7XDS2zcCEg8mHoxnv9xMFIxCOtpjJBoFACLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/Hornby-LMS-royal-mail-post-coach-for-OO.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vM6dW2geZ0w/YHHzgcvrrVI/AAAAAAAAIR8/7XDS2zcCEg8mHoxnv9xMFIxCOtpjJBoFACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Hornby-LMS-royal-mail-post-coach-for-OO.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zF5wBjGUoNM/YHH0KLcoMfI/AAAAAAAAISM/2r14wJQYPo0I4NX9Akhq8xkW1W27CYHGQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/Hornby-LMS-royal-mail-post-coach-for-OO-_57_002.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zF5wBjGUoNM/YHH0KLcoMfI/AAAAAAAAISM/2r14wJQYPo0I4NX9Akhq8xkW1W27CYHGQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Hornby-LMS-royal-mail-post-coach-for-OO-_57_002.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Given the date and composition of this specific rake, the original locomotive number 6106 would be in error, having been rebuilt in September 1949, and renumbered 46106 (see image below). </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">For those who may not know, the LMS was a massive British railroad monopoly, having been formed on 1 January 1923 under the Railways Act of 1921. </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Besides being the world's largest transport organisation, it was also the largest commercial enterprise in the British Empire and the United Kingdom's second largest employer, after the British Postal Service. The LMS also claimed to be the largest joint stock organisation in the world.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mhAa2-2UvWk/X43G1OBbdLI/AAAAAAAAIEs/W-WUM6Vbkpsabr2bny8CwfSUSyQTuCHKwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/1600px-London_Midland_%2526_Scottish_Railway_Company_%25286156567103%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mhAa2-2UvWk/X43G1OBbdLI/AAAAAAAAIEs/W-WUM6Vbkpsabr2bny8CwfSUSyQTuCHKwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/1600px-London_Midland_%2526_Scottish_Railway_Company_%25286156567103%2529.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cyV74JtQiYc/X5W0g7eu3vI/AAAAAAAAIF4/ivD9626AkxYNng3pMjJ871Y4RgOP0XHkQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1216/LMSMap.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1216" data-original-width="855" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cyV74JtQiYc/X5W0g7eu3vI/AAAAAAAAIF4/ivD9626AkxYNng3pMjJ871Y4RgOP0XHkQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/LMSMap.jpg" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YR06TBl-4XU/X-Y2D-BXcOI/AAAAAAAAIM8/yaojSbCsxnMjOeu5dY8v1gvCqhLrPcYDACLcBGAsYHQ/s1000/P-6-068550a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="550" data-original-width="1000" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YR06TBl-4XU/X-Y2D-BXcOI/AAAAAAAAIM8/yaojSbCsxnMjOeu5dY8v1gvCqhLrPcYDACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/P-6-068550a.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nBbqnH94FP0/YN4p-7worvI/AAAAAAAAIaA/4n5QeFwnZVgn8m9rgx4gvOoYTWdVoiqOQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/genesisliverymap02_hires.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1449" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nBbqnH94FP0/YN4p-7worvI/AAAAAAAAIaA/4n5QeFwnZVgn8m9rgx4gvOoYTWdVoiqOQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/genesisliverymap02_hires.jpg" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">The “Royal Scot” Class was introduced in 1927, with the “Gordon Highlander” being built in September 1927 (rebuilt 1949), and was in service until being withdrawn in December 1962, with a final short commemorative guest trip in April 1963.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">The lead locomotive of the class the "Royal Scot" Engine 6100 was even shipped to the United States in 1933 where it performed a public relations tour including the Chicago World's Fair during the course of its route.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CDAwiZXcvaI/X-dwHvMT9sI/AAAAAAAAINE/r5ZE5BfS7KEN3P4Lh_vR7IlfxH1ADZJugCLcBGAsYHQ/s1200/Map%252C_North_American_Tour_of_the_Royal_Scot_%2528TRS_1933%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="957" data-original-width="1200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CDAwiZXcvaI/X-dwHvMT9sI/AAAAAAAAINE/r5ZE5BfS7KEN3P4Lh_vR7IlfxH1ADZJugCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Map%252C_North_American_Tour_of_the_Royal_Scot_%2528TRS_1933%2529.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">The following images, </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">although not of exactly the same train, are of the Royal Scot Class, intended to provide a direct comparison of the model to the real thing.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-69JuDidHj84/X424ty6QRqI/AAAAAAAAIEk/m7a_lDFTOfQaktRpr8KwF4BpeJBz6RcNQCLcBGAsYHQ/s792/posterkingsownloco.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="347" data-original-width="792" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-69JuDidHj84/X424ty6QRqI/AAAAAAAAIEk/m7a_lDFTOfQaktRpr8KwF4BpeJBz6RcNQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/posterkingsownloco.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TI3El0T59LU/X424AOY2pfI/AAAAAAAAIEY/IVUvXKr8FGgfUG_7YzLtezECEVjEiW7_gCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/20170219135206_1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1600" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TI3El0T59LU/X424AOY2pfI/AAAAAAAAIEY/IVUvXKr8FGgfUG_7YzLtezECEVjEiW7_gCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/20170219135206_1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">The following image is a late photo of the "Gordon Highlander" renumbered with the revised number 46106 and livery of the British Railway System, however still in service. It appears in the first video cited below. Not certain of the exact date, but probably in the early 1960s. </span><span style="font-size: medium;">The BR style smoke deflectors being fitted in December 1952 are correctly included in the model.</span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-X0OD16tmo88/X43NkLhUokI/AAAAAAAAIE0/nfZwYToucaUq-quHrLs6iaxBRkve6I6QgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/LMS%2BGordon%2BHighlander.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1242" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-X0OD16tmo88/X43NkLhUokI/AAAAAAAAIE0/nfZwYToucaUq-quHrLs6iaxBRkve6I6QgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/LMS%2BGordon%2BHighlander.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Besides the zenith of the classic steam locomotive era in the 1920s and 30s, personified in the "Royal Scot Class", there was an earlier generation steam version "Gordon Highlander", and a follow-on diesel locomotive version, both shown below.</span></div></span><div><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kM1vNYt4P4o/X5XfQRv-rwI/AAAAAAAAIGE/D1fkOpmtWNMYzGOjVvnG022en9xL_dD8QCLcBGAsYHQ/s730/Gordon_Highlander_steam_locomotive.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="516" data-original-width="730" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kM1vNYt4P4o/X5XfQRv-rwI/AAAAAAAAIGE/D1fkOpmtWNMYzGOjVvnG022en9xL_dD8QCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Gordon_Highlander_steam_locomotive.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><div><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lHtY5ZSPyIk/X76_4eesTAI/AAAAAAAAILg/GZylu1MoK9g9P5gbHge7D0bDVwNCtn0OACLcBGAsYHQ/s1280/s-l1600.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="806" data-original-width="1280" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lHtY5ZSPyIk/X76_4eesTAI/AAAAAAAAILg/GZylu1MoK9g9P5gbHge7D0bDVwNCtn0OACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/s-l1600.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div><span>The steam locomotive which preceded the “Gordon Highlander “ of the “Royal Scot Class” was the Great North of Scotland Railway’s Heywood ‘F’ Class No. 49 “Gordon Highlander”. Eight of the locomotives entered service in 1920, being built by the North British Locomotive Company Ltd. No. 49 remained in service until being withdrawn in 1957. It remains today, restored on museum display.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SotdmfrLphc/X5XfeYQgRmI/AAAAAAAAIGI/BzflEsFQeBYDClkJBXkuWEcd8du6aS83QCLcBGAsYHQ/s1024/jp.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="712" data-original-width="1024" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SotdmfrLphc/X5XfeYQgRmI/AAAAAAAAIGI/BzflEsFQeBYDClkJBXkuWEcd8du6aS83QCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/jp.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">The diesel locomotive configuration “Gordon Highlander” is one of 22 British Rail Class 55 engines which were built in 1961 and 1962 by English Electric, which gained the name “Deltic” based on their Napier Deltic power units. The engines were withdrawn from service at the end of 1982, with 6 units preserved and still running today.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></p></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span>In addition as a NROTC Midshipman during the summer of 1955, I had been able to take a train excursion from Edinburgh to London as a liberty during my midshipman training cruise. Although I can’t remember the specific train I was on, it was overnight and feel certain that the actual “Gordon Highlander” had made the same trip, over the very same rails, hundreds of times. Obviously the train model is truly a great personal remembrance.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">For those readers who may be real train enthusiasts the following videos should prove to be of significant interest (the first video including the above photograph of the "Gordon Highlander");</span></div><div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wauqCD6bnU" style="color: #954f72; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wauqCD6bnU</span></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaDdAEDBqio" style="color: #954f72;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaDdAEDBqio</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><a href="https://www.railadvent.co.uk/2020/09/watch-steam-locomotive-royal-scot-conquering-the-settle-and-carlisle.html" style="color: #954f72;">https://www.railadvent.co.uk/2020/09/watch-steam-locomotive-royal-scot-conquering-the-settle-and-carlisle.html</a></span></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/JD5ZCBIJXQM" width="320" youtube-src-id="JD5ZCBIJXQM"></iframe></div><div><br /></div>Bachmann OO Gauge LMS Royal Scot Series "Gordon Highlander" video.<div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/C-sVbR2VWZ0" width="320" youtube-src-id="C-sVbR2VWZ0"></iframe></div><div><br /></div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Recently had a need for the maintenance of my Royal Scot Class “Gordon Highlander” steam locomotive. I sent it to Nigel Doran’s, British Model Trains Ltd. in Cambridge, Ontario, Canada. His website is <a href="https://britishmodeltrains.ca/" style="color: #954f72;">https://britishmodeltrains.ca</a>. It is highly recommended, as Nigel is an expert in British Railroading, as well as both Bachmann and Hornby HO scale model trains. For distant customers he provides a video of the results of his maintenance/repairs of your train prior to return.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><div><br /></div><div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />Arnhemjimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01794722964883335445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2956713848009971988.post-84464973480862373712020-10-11T11:16:00.022-07:002020-11-04T05:59:49.183-08:00Fox, Morigi or Moriarty, It’s all in the Name, More Fake Cap badges<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /><o:p></o:p>For the better part of seven decades I’ve been collecting British and Commonwealth armament and militaria, and for the past nine years have attempted to convey in this blog, the figurative minefield that exists for everyone from beginning collector to advanced/experts in the field.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Having been burned many times over the years, fortunately never too severely, I have personally ceased further serious collecting, resting and enjoying the fruits of my labors, the good, bad, and questionable. As a realist rather than a purist, I think I can identify all my conscious deliberate fillers, which are there only because a while back I reconciled to the fact that the originals only resided in museums, extremely wealthy collections, or existed in miserable deteriorated condition.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">With full acknowledgement and gratitude to Dubaiguy aka Mark of the British and Commonwealth Military Badge Forum, the author would like to continue the ongoing saga of the production and sales of known fake cap badges.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">In a recent set of images in that forum he presented a whole new source of counterfeit badges this author was not aware of. They are the product of a nefarious individual by the name of Marshand Morigi who practiced his “skills” in the 1960s and 70s, along with a more recent cohort in crime, Martin Marsh, both originating in Great Britain. Somehow the name Morigi triggered in my mind another, that of Sherlock Holmes’ arch villain,<b> </b></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Professor James Moriarty.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Morigi purchased the badges from a certain John Morris (now deceased) of Aston in Birmingham, who owned the dies, also made in Birmingham, and had them stamped out by several other Birmingham manufacturers, including Gladmans. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Morigi also tried his hand at British Special Forces cloth insignia during the same time frame.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">I’m not certain whether I have any of the metal badges, but am absolutely certain (and have so identified) a rather fair number of the cloth variety. Many of which can be seen in the following blog article; </span><a href="https://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2015/06/a-gallimaufry-of-militaria.html" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">https://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2015/06/a-gallimaufry-of-militaria.html</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> . Following image is a sample of the offerings at the time.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-znJGZ2Zr-l4/X6Kzl2jW1KI/AAAAAAAAIG0/kFw4zWx3eQ4aSuZ-YXT7OrTMnOX25Yv4wCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/0-9.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1383" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-znJGZ2Zr-l4/X6Kzl2jW1KI/AAAAAAAAIG0/kFw4zWx3eQ4aSuZ-YXT7OrTMnOX25Yv4wCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/0-9.jpg" /></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: left;"> </span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Returning to the metal cap badges, Mark has provided images of a series of Morigi’s catalog pages. It provides the collector with another series of “mug shots” of badges to be aware of, and cautious to avoid without an established source and sound provenance. Personal apologies for the small size of the images. They can be copied and enlarged to a limited extent without a significant loss of resolution. However, I think most collectors can identify the cap badges which have been duplicated. Once again an overused cliché, “It’s a jungle out there!”.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xmuR9rIQqRU/X4NLgdz8JvI/AAAAAAAAICk/97xU8C-3ZAAHPcR8nnAYnpIlfYnHhsFYACLcBGAsYHQ/s750/attachment.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="524" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xmuR9rIQqRU/X4NLgdz8JvI/AAAAAAAAICk/97xU8C-3ZAAHPcR8nnAYnpIlfYnHhsFYACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/attachment.jpg" /></a></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/--H8Mqo6qmyA/X4NLpe_TGNI/AAAAAAAAICo/5ptogbZY6KU6JVmMF65USfUOUfcjYD1AgCLcBGAsYHQ/s750/attachment-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="519" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/--H8Mqo6qmyA/X4NLpe_TGNI/AAAAAAAAICo/5ptogbZY6KU6JVmMF65USfUOUfcjYD1AgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/attachment-1.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-J-GYyJMaw1w/X4NL0S6G7gI/AAAAAAAAIC0/-R7OneLvYbAKCUiHHUx9Yr9qIpn3_wqSQCLcBGAsYHQ/s750/attachment-2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="522" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-J-GYyJMaw1w/X4NL0S6G7gI/AAAAAAAAIC0/-R7OneLvYbAKCUiHHUx9Yr9qIpn3_wqSQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/attachment-2.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div>Arnhemjimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01794722964883335445noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2956713848009971988.post-4784234018436427342020-09-08T09:21:00.016-07:002021-02-19T09:54:10.536-08:00The Original Brevet - First Wings of The Parachute Regiment<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Very recently Pierre, aka tcrown, of The British and Commonwealth Military Badge Forum (https://www.britishbadgeforum.com/forums/) presented a fascinating article on the very first qualification brevet awarded to the original personnel who formed what was to become The Parachute Regiment of the British Army in 1940. With his expressed permission and my full acknowledgement and sincere gratitude this blog author is presenting that same article. I have taken the liberty to incorporate a few additional notes for those who might not be familiar in detail with the real true origins of the very first “winged canopy” brevet of the regiment.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">“Early Para Wings<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">by tcrown<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Location: Canada<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">It is well accepted by collectors that the early parachute wings were manufactured by Lewis Falk Limited. A true characteristic of early wings is split or detached feathers.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">The first wings were issued in Jan 1941 after ACI 1589 dated 28/12/1940 was published describing the badge itself and the qualifying conditions. From the photos available in the IWM (Imperial War Museum) collection, we can get an idea about the way these badges were worn at the very beginning.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">(The first images are of Lt Col Ivor Jackson (CO, 11<sup>th</sup> SAS) on the occasion of a visit to the unit by then Gen Alan Brooke, C in C Home Forces, later Field Marshal Alan Francis Brooke, 1<sup>st</sup> Viscount Alanbrooke, KG, GCB, OM, GCVO, DSO & Bar), January, 1941.)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qP7_czunWzE/X1eoYHd5HzI/AAAAAAAAH-4/YWwiXoORbWc1LoxZTFQ6zFHtQ7FMUuSCgCLcBGAsYHQ/s662/attachment.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="459" data-original-width="662" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qP7_czunWzE/X1eoYHd5HzI/AAAAAAAAH-4/YWwiXoORbWc1LoxZTFQ6zFHtQ7FMUuSCgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/attachment.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hwpfaOtDGzk/X1en0OKbyoI/AAAAAAAAH-w/VaQ6RsnybDw2T1V-yc25mlAz9zxrhL4TACLcBGAsYHQ/s800/attachment-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="466" data-original-width="800" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hwpfaOtDGzk/X1en0OKbyoI/AAAAAAAAH-w/VaQ6RsnybDw2T1V-yc25mlAz9zxrhL4TACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/attachment-1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">These two photos were taken in early January
1941 during a parachute demonstration before General Brooke (C in C Home
Forces). Lt Col Ivor Jackson, CO of 11th SAS (the only British parachute force
at the time) is pictured wearing his Para badge uncut in its full rectangular
original form (I’m wondering who the officer, likely his 2nd in C, was standing
next to him). Note also the parachutists in the background emplaning with their
gear and newly issued smocks. They don’t wear any wings as the badge was at the
time only permitted on BD. This was changed on 12 Feb 1942 (ACI 204) when
wearing para badges were authorized on smocks (called officially ‘gabardine
jump jacket’). (This was the fore-runner to the iconic Denison smock, and was
essentially copied from the German <span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: white; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%;">Fallschirmjäger
smock).</span></span> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in -4.5pt 0in 0in; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hwpfaOtDGzk/X1en0OKbyoI/AAAAAAAAH-w/VaQ6RsnybDw2T1V-yc25mlAz9zxrhL4TACLcBGAsYHQ/s800/attachment-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><style>
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{page:WordS</style></a><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YlamXdcO4sI/X1esQD2TlbI/AAAAAAAAH_A/I4oVUUBuopIOvjgE4Kyr0GEvSoyxph8WACLcBGAsYHQ/s800/attachment-2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="493" data-original-width="800" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YlamXdcO4sI/X1esQD2TlbI/AAAAAAAAH_A/I4oVUUBuopIOvjgE4Kyr0GEvSoyxph8WACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/attachment-2.jpg" width="320" /></a></p></span></div></div></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">This photo (source: ParaData) shows members of C troop 11th SAS wearing badges on their smock. Interestingly, the second individual from the left first row (Cpl A. Phillips) was tragically killed in a parachute accident on 16 Feb 1941. We can just assume that all parachute members were eager to wear their badge once permitted.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span>The following rare photograph is presented with full acknowledgment and expressed gratitude to the Airborne Assault Museum at IWM, Duxford. It is a photograph of 'X' Troop of 11</span>th SAS Battalion</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> which assaulted the Tragino Aquaduct.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-J4soJ1Bmv8c/YC_38IvUHQI/AAAAAAAAIPI/-2DIAb3I5YMf3EwiM4DYPcQ0TqXhqkprQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1650/126324380_4053556701339370_5759592280768868178_o.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1135" data-original-width="1650" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-J4soJ1Bmv8c/YC_38IvUHQI/AAAAAAAAIPI/-2DIAb3I5YMf3EwiM4DYPcQ0TqXhqkprQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/126324380_4053556701339370_5759592280768868178_o.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">11 SAS Battalion was formed from No 2 Commando on 21 November 1940, retaining the No 2 Commando CO Lt Col CIA Jackson. In 1941 he was succeeded by Lt Col EE Down. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">The battalion retained its Commando structure, of 22 eight-men teams trained to infantry section standard. This was increased to 10 because the numbers conformed to a Whitley aircraft ‘stick’ of parachutists. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">‘X’Troop from 11 SAS , consisting of seven officers and 28 men conducted the Tragino Aquaduct Raid in Italy on 10/11 February 1941. This was the first British parachute operation of the war. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">By August 1941 the unit reorganised into a conventional headquarters and four infantry companies battalion pattern. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">On 15 September 1941 the unit name changed to the 1st Parachute Battalion.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">A photo of the recent issued badge was taken on 21 Feb 1941 (IWM) with its typical rectangular form. The split of feathers is clearly visible on both period and modern photos.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-16bzmc8iEEY/X1etpxidmqI/AAAAAAAAH_Q/dJNmddCiTcUZx4FHdwL0i2h3-5ZRq-qhwCLcBGAsYHQ/s800/attachment-3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="451" data-original-width="800" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-16bzmc8iEEY/X1etpxidmqI/AAAAAAAAH_Q/dJNmddCiTcUZx4FHdwL0i2h3-5ZRq-qhwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/attachment-3.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AsrbUmF2Rmg/X1et3bR3szI/AAAAAAAAH_U/v-Q3FY-Oets0Q3-V-nWWTFNJ1_SM9bNCACLcBGAsYHQ/s800/attachment-4.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="388" data-original-width="800" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AsrbUmF2Rmg/X1et3bR3szI/AAAAAAAAH_U/v-Q3FY-Oets0Q3-V-nWWTFNJ1_SM9bNCACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/attachment-4.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">It looks like the practice of wearing the badge in an uncut form was shortly discontinued on BD as can be seen in this snapshot of a movie taken in Feb 1941 (source: IWM ‘The Service Takes to Silk’).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xoFh5qHAnNQ/X1euOwLHCQI/AAAAAAAAH_c/DGnpg8E8Y100qhMyLaI2B7Z5pL_tRVogACLcBGAsYHQ/s775/attachment-5.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="546" data-original-width="775" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xoFh5qHAnNQ/X1euOwLHCQI/AAAAAAAAH_c/DGnpg8E8Y100qhMyLaI2B7Z5pL_tRVogACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/attachment-5.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Lt Col Jackson himself wore trimmed wings when he presented his unit to the King in May 1941.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6ZzpA53ohok/X1etSHxR8WI/AAAAAAAAH_I/-kGo9eMekK0PalbEH-WUrPHDOvnvXRI-ACLcBGAsYHQ/s740/attachment-6.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="601" data-original-width="740" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6ZzpA53ohok/X1etSHxR8WI/AAAAAAAAH_I/-kGo9eMekK0PalbEH-WUrPHDOvnvXRI-ACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/attachment-6.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">These type of wings although issued first, continued to be worn well beyond late war years. They are not particularly rare and the collector has to be aware that uncut (unissued) or oval shape wings don’t make them any earlier than they are.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">I have added a couple of photos of trimmed examples of the same wing type that could have been issued during mid or even late war.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-h4H0FCp9bzc/X1eupiB49-I/AAAAAAAAH_k/t1AD8HC0nXcENwKh9WNrmHY_xMY4bPmwgCLcBGAsYHQ/s730/attachment-7.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="730" data-original-width="696" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-h4H0FCp9bzc/X1eupiB49-I/AAAAAAAAH_k/t1AD8HC0nXcENwKh9WNrmHY_xMY4bPmwgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/attachment-7.jpg" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fzBeOoxNde8/X1eu1Q7dSpI/AAAAAAAAH_o/T_WP3wryosoh6PHccVwaQT7CnaZhRxESACLcBGAsYHQ/s800/attachment-8.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="733" data-original-width="800" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fzBeOoxNde8/X1eu1Q7dSpI/AAAAAAAAH_o/T_WP3wryosoh6PHccVwaQT7CnaZhRxESACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/attachment-8.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></p>In conclusion, these wings were widely distributed during the war and don’t have to be confused with the early and brief practice of wearing uncut badges. I’ll be posting later a few details on another early badge that is much scarcer: the “cloud” type parachute canopy.”</span><div><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Three additional photographs of uncut squared brevets, first two from 1941, and the third from April 1944, surprisingly very late in the war.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UJadFcwtjUQ/X2KG4adsDxI/AAAAAAAAIAM/QGUnUnICZR8e1wOa3SPDVrs5UXQHzSONgCLcBGAsYHQ/s800/attachment.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="565" data-original-width="800" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UJadFcwtjUQ/X2KG4adsDxI/AAAAAAAAIAM/QGUnUnICZR8e1wOa3SPDVrs5UXQHzSONgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/attachment.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hj0K11b4AyY/X2KHBrTQ4iI/AAAAAAAAIAQ/nXPDS8_lG4gyDur4ezes1B12ueMU_4F9wCLcBGAsYHQ/s800/attachment-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="562" data-original-width="800" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hj0K11b4AyY/X2KHBrTQ4iI/AAAAAAAAIAQ/nXPDS8_lG4gyDur4ezes1B12ueMU_4F9wCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/attachment-1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-E_OUodAIIL4/X2KHMwtBYPI/AAAAAAAAIAY/T1GmzILi6es0D7V3JkG9AHl-XXo_wyodwCLcBGAsYHQ/s800/attachment-2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="493" data-original-width="800" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-E_OUodAIIL4/X2KHMwtBYPI/AAAAAAAAIAY/T1GmzILi6es0D7V3JkG9AHl-XXo_wyodwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/attachment-2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">For those readers who might be interested a previously published post on this blog depicts the early training of the British Airborne Force; </span><a href="http://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2012/11/early-british-paratroop-training.html" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="font-family: times;">http://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2012/11/early-british-paratroop-training.html</span></a></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span> </p></div></div>Arnhemjimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01794722964883335445noreply@blogger.com1