Identify this

[Cap Mandrake]

What is this dangerous looking thing?

[WhoCares]

A stranded torpedo?

[tsimmonds]

R2! Get up!

[bilbow]

A booby-trapped golf bag?

[rtrapasso]

It sorta looks like one of those parachute dropped supply cannisters...

[Twotribes]

ORIGINAL: rtrapasso

It sorta looks like one of those parachute dropped supply cannisters...

That was gonna be my guess too.

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: rtrapasso

It sorta looks like one of those parachute dropped supply cannisters...

I dont have the discipline of Brady (so I am going to post a hint [:)])...but the guy on the right looks to have a level of caution not warranted by opening a parachute cannister.

[rtrapasso]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

ORIGINAL: rtrapasso

It sorta looks like one of those parachute dropped supply cannisters...

I dont have the discipline of Brady (so I am going to post a hint [:)])...but the guy on the right looks to have a level of caution not warranted by opening a parachute cannister.

I thought maybe his anxious look was just his worrying about if the Pilsner Urquell in it was broken...

But, by your hint i guess not a supply container. Maybe this is a delayed action (or dud) incendiary bomb?

[rtrapasso]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

ORIGINAL: rtrapasso

It sorta looks like one of those parachute dropped supply cannisters...

I dont have the discipline of Brady (so I am going to post a hint [:)])...but the guy on the right looks to have a level of caution not warranted by opening a parachute cannister.

How about a Bangalore torpedo? (maybe they are fiddling with the fuze, etc.)

[rogueusmc]

Bangalore's aren't that big around. One person can carry muliple sections of a bangalore. Bangalore's are just like a rigid line charge.

[rtrapasso]

ORIGINAL: rogueusmc

Bangalore's aren't that big around. One person can carry muliple sections of a bangalore. Bangalore's are just like a rigid line charge.

I was thinking this was the tail end of the thing...

Maybe these guys are midgets??[:D]

[rtrapasso]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Somehow i have the feeling that these guys are trying to disarm something. Maybe a booby-trap? Germ warfare bomb? Poison Gas Cannister?

PS - Are we in the WITP sphere? Those sort of look like oak leaves (i.e. - ETO).

[DeepSix]

Remember Spock's coffin from the Star Trek movies? Kinda looks like that.[:D]

[Twotribes]

I dont think they had photon torpedo tubes in WW2 )

[rtrapasso]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

What is this dangerous looking thing?

This loop of rope (?) that they are holding reminds me of a snare used to catch snakes. Could this be some sort of animal trap or pen?

[rogueusmc]

It would have to be a locally improvise one if it was and it looks too shiny for something like that.

And Bangalors were about 2-3" around and in sections of about 4' if I remember correctly. They joined the sections together and slid them through whatever they wanted to blast a path through and detonated them. They are just rigid line charges basically. They are still in use.

[rtrapasso]

The sleepy submarine had finally laid its periscope on the forest floor, and slumbered deeply. Little did it know that two wiley submarine hunters, armed with a periscope lasso, were going to try to capture her...

[DeepSix]

It looks big enough to be one -- but it doesn't look like any I've ever seen -- but a flame thrower tank?

[rtrapasso]

ORIGINAL: rogueusmc

It would have to be a locally improvise one if it was and it looks too shiny for something like that.

And Bangalors were about 2-3" around and in sections of about 4' if I remember correctly. They joined the sections together and slid them through whatever they wanted to blast a path through and detonated them. They are just rigid line charges basically. They are still in use.

I thought they were bigger than that - about 4" across (or about 12 inches around). They depicted their use in the Big Red One (Lee Marvin's squad on Omaha Beach) - although i have no idea if the size they showed was technically correct.

This does look bigger than that, though - unless, of course these guys really ARE midgets.

[rogueusmc]

here's a pic of a bangalore

specs are 2 1/8" dia. and 5' long