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[Womble67]

That looks well and truly stuck,

Looks like a training exercise. either that or half the company has turned up to laugh at the idiot who got stuck

If it was a training exercise it would certainly come in for Russia

Take care

Andy

[Womble67]

Take care

Andy

[fsn]

THE BRITISH ARMY IN ITALY 1944.
The crew of an upended Sherman tank of 7th Armoured Brigade enjoy a 'brew' beside their vehicle while waiting for a recovery team, Gothic Line, 13 September 1944. Their tank overturned after slipping off a narrow road in the dark.



It's amazing how many photos of British troops have them brewing up.

[fsn]

We can spend a good deal of time researching what paint colour and pattern was supposed to be used by a particular army in a particular theatre.....and then find somebody in the field seems to have completely ignored it. This is "Sheikh" of the Scots Greys, in Italy in September 1943 (IWM NA 7457)



THE BRITISH ARMY IN ITALY 1944.
Canadian gunners un-hitch their 6-pdr anti-tank gun from the rear of a Sherman tank of the 12th Canadian Armoured Regiment (Three Rivers), 17 January 1944.



THE BRITISH ARMY IN NORTH AFRICA 1943.
The crew of a Humber Mk II armoured car open fire against enemy aircraft. Bombs can be seen exploding in the distance, 4 January 1943.



ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA, 1939-1943.
The crew of a Fordson Armoured Car of No. 2 Armoured Car Company RAF boil a kettle on a spirit stove for a 'brew up' during a halt while on patrol in the Western Desert.

[Womble67]

Some good pictures there

Take care

Andy

[Matt J]

In the third picture everyone is blazing away apart from the guy on the floor checking his phone 

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

You brewed up because you didn't know how clean the water was...

[fsn]

Though the British Army had switched much of its transport to motor lorries by the end if the Great War, they were not able to pull really heavy loads. In such cases steam traction engines were used, for their greater pulling power. This one is pulling a 7.5in Mk III Breech loading gun. 14 of these formed the secondary armament of the pre-dreadnought battleship HMS Swiftsure, and when she was decommissioned her guns were emplaced as coast defence weapons in Britain, used to bombard German batteries on the Western Front, or refitted as the main armament aboard some of the M15-class monitors

[fsn]

You brewed up because you didn't know how clean the water was...

No. You brewed up because it's the British thing to do! 

In the third picture everyone is blazing away apart from the guy on the floor checking his phone 

I wondered about him.  From the can in front of him, I think he's just about to get a brew on.

[Techno]

THAT is a big gun ! 

Cheers - Phil

[fsn]

A woman hands out tea to soldiers (and their pet monkey) at a town in France, 1940.  (Is that Gracie Fields?)


A British soldier with the 2/7th Middlesex Regiment shares a cup of tea with an American infantryman in the Anzio bridgehead, Feb. 10, 1944


Members of 12th Parachute Battalion, 5th Parachute Brigade, 6th Airborne Division, enjoy a cup of tea after fighting their way back to their own lines near Ranville after three days behind enemy lines, June 10, 1944


Churchill AVRE crew, brewing up near Venlo, Nov. 30, 1944


A soldier lights up a cigarette in his foxhole, 27 December 1944. Next to him a mess tin of water is boiling on a "Newscaven stove", a simple petrol vapour stove made from a 25lb shell case, invented by three RASC officers.


Troops get mugs of tea while waiting to embark on ships to Sicily, Egypt, 1943


24 April 1944: Chindits making tea at their jungle bivouac

[fsn]

Tank commander Cpl Harry Stephenson of Cardiff, Wales, leans down from the turret of his Valentine tank, 11th Armoured Div, to speak to 5-year-old Pat Brooker in the village of Rottingdean, Sussex, England, 25th June 1942. (IWM)

Just thought this was cute.

[fsn]

Universal Carriers of the 2nd Bn, The Loyal Regt during field training, Malaya, October 1941. (IWM)


An Indian soldier guards a former Japanese converted Universal carrier, used by Indonesian nationalists until knocked out by British forces during the figthing in Surabaya (Soerabaja). Java, October 1945. (IWM)


Australian Sappers (Spr's), 2/9 Field (Fd) Company (Coy), Royal Australian Engineers (RAE), who having just cleared a road section of the "Vasey Highway" of mines, stand to one side as a Matilda of the 1st Australian Armd Regt passes through. Balikpapan, Borneo. 2nd July 1945. (AWM)


A flame throwing Matilda tank from 1st Australian Armd Regt, attacking a Japanese bunker set in the side of a road. The tanks are supporting A Coy, 2/10th Australian Inf Bn, on the OBOE 2 Operations. Balikpapan, Borneo. 3rd July 1945. (AWM)

[fsn]

THE BRITISH ARMY IN THE NORMANDY CAMPAIGN 1944.
Churchill AVRE entering Geilenkirchen, 19 November 1944

As a side note - I used to live in Geilenkirchen.

[fred.]

I do like a Churchill AVRE