Ladies Night?
Tag: WWII
Big Guns
203mm 1931 Howitzer
Knock, Knock…
Guns of Canada
The Vickers Machine Gun
A .303 caliber water cooled machine gun developed by the Vickers Company before the First World War for the British army seen here in use by Canadian PPCLI soldiers training in England circa 1942.
Guns of Canada
The Lee Enfield No. 4 Mk. 1 (T) 303 British
Sniper Sergeant Harold A. Marshall of the Canadian Calgary Highlanders’ Scout and Sniper Platoon in Europe during WWII
Guns of Canada
The Bren Gun
According to the web site Canada at War this is Private H. E. Goddard, of the Perth Regiment, carrying his Bren gun as he advances through a forest north of Arnhem with the 5th Canadian Armored Division. Photo via Wikipedia.
Beauty and the Beast
Old School
Beauty and the Beast Circa 1941.
Ronnie, “The Bren Gun Girl” at the Inglis factory predates ‘Rosie the Riveter’.
Ingenious
Big Guns
A German Tiger Tank Fires its Main Gun
I’m thinking if you made it through the war alive you were probably deaf afterwards…
For God, King and Country
Guns of Canada
A look at the history of personal and military arms in Canada.
3.7 inch Anti-aircraft gun in service with the 43 Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, RCA for the defence of Vancouver, ca 1945. (DND Photo)
