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Name This...(404)
Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 11:34 pm
by Brady
???
RE: Name This...(404)
Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 11:36 pm
by rtrapasso
Aussies working on a Hurricane???[&:]
RE: Name This...(404)
Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 11:38 pm
by PzB74
It's a Hurr armed with 2x40mm cannons for knocking out tanks etc.
Probably belonged in Burma?
Had to edit..that was 2x40 and not 30mm guns on a Hurricane IV.
Could also be a Mk II...but 2 squadrons of Mk IVs were used in Burma.
RE: Name This...(404)
Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 1:18 am
by kaleun
The guy in the center (centre for you brits) seems rather malnourished, either that or he got some bad bug in the Burma forest. Someone get him some emetine (used at the time for dysentery)[;)]
RE: Name This...(404)
Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 1:36 am
by rogueusmc
When I was in Desert Storm, I lost so much weight that my bellybutton wasn't 6 inches from my spine...Heat and no Golden Corral makes for some serious weight loss[:D]
RE: Name This...(404)
Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 1:39 am
by treespider
A model GP-456-pw pressure washer.
RE: Name This...(404)
Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 2:19 am
by ZekeNY
Aircraftmen Bruce, Bruce, Bruce (squatting) and Leading Aircraftman Bruce (wearing shirt), working on a Hurri.
RE: Name This...(404)
Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 2:38 am
by Iridium
ORIGINAL: treespider
A model GP-456-pw pressure washer.
Your joking right?...[:D]
You never can tell with some people here sometimes.
RE: Name This...(404)
Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 4:08 am
by Big B
ORIGINAL: ZekeNY
Aircraftmen Bruce, Bruce, Bruce (squatting) and Leading Aircraftman Bruce (wearing shirt), working on a Hurri.
Does that mean they are all Aussie professors?
RE: Name This...(404)
Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 5:08 am
by usersatch
Bro...I got FAT out in the desert!!! [8|]
ORIGINAL: rogueusmc
When I was in Desert Storm, I lost so much weight that my bellybutton wasn't 6 inches from my spine...Heat and no Golden Corral makes for some serious weight loss[:D]
RE: Name This...(404)
Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 5:15 am
by YankeeAirRat
ORIGINAL: ZekeNY
Aircraftmen Bruce, Bruce, Bruce (squatting) and Leading Aircraftman Bruce (wearing shirt), working on a Hurri.
Is that anything like Jones, Jones, Jones, and Jones from that RAF squadron in Wales?[:D]
RE: Name This...(404)
Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 6:13 am
by Marten
can opener [:D]
RE: Name This...(404)
Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 8:57 am
by Terminus
ORIGINAL: ZekeNY
Aircraftmen Bruce, Bruce, Bruce (squatting) and Leading Aircraftman Bruce (wearing shirt), working on a Hurri.
All they need are the boonie hats with the little corks dangling down...
RE: Name This...(404)
Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 12:43 pm
by rtrapasso
Maybe these were Kiwis? Guys fighting in the Solomons tended to look like this, and i think the New Zealanders were in that area, although i don't know if they flew Hurricanes there...
RE: Name This...(404)
Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 12:45 pm
by rtrapasso
ORIGINAL: treespider
A model GP-456-pw pressure washer.
You forgot to mention the Model 2b-LL (Lend Lease) tool box![:D]
RE: Name This...(404)
Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 12:48 pm
by Terminus
ORIGINAL: rtrapasso
Maybe these were Kiwis? Guys fighting in the Solomons tended to look like this, and i think the New Zealanders were in that area, although i don't know if they flew Hurricanes there...
Don't you think they'd be flying P-40's of some flavour?
RE: Name This...(404)
Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 12:52 pm
by rtrapasso
Don't you think they'd be flying P-40's of some flavour?
Yeah - always hear about them flying the P-40/Kittyhawk, but maybe they flew Hurc's before this? My knowledge of NZ units is admittedly slim.
If you know that they flew this sort of Hurc in the Burma theater, that would mean this mystery photo probably came from there, but i was just throwing out possibilities.
RE: Name This...(404)
Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 12:52 pm
by Raverdave
Well there are NOT aussies. Aussie troops are REAL men and REAL men DON't Wear pith helmets.[:'(]
RE: Name This...(404)
Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 12:55 pm
by Terminus
ORIGINAL: rtrapasso
If you know that they flew this sort of Hurc in the Burma theater, that would mean this mystery photo probably came from there, but i was just throwing out possibilities.
I don't think they flew the heavy-gun Hurricanes (aka Tin Openers) anywhere but in Burma and North Africa.
RE: Name This...(404)
Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 1:07 pm
by rtrapasso
Well there are NOT aussies. Aussie troops are REAL men and REAL men DON't Wear pith helmets.
Oh, that's the British officer making sure the Aussies don't muck things up![:D][:'(]