kBob
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Has anyone else caught any of Ken Burn’s “The War?”
(What does this have to do with rifles , kBob?)
I have not watched it all and frequently been tempted to turn off the sound (besides all the “oh it was awful” and “Darn it they treated us differently because we were not WASPs” And “boy was the military stupid” there was the fact that all machine guns sounded suspiciously like stock sound for a M1919 Browning MG and every rifle goes the same variety of “Bang” and all artillery makes the same “boom”) I have enjoyed the images.
Much of it is clips I have never seen.
One image I found interesting was a large group of Black Artillerist doing rifle exercises ( not drill but calisthenics with the rifle for weight training) with the M1917 “Enfield” rifles. This I found neat as some THR folks have claimed that the M1917 was NEVER issued to WWII US troops.
I’ve seen a couple of Johnson LMG/ ARs and maybe one Johnson rifle (1st SSB?) Lots of M1 Garands and one I think had the early gas cylinder and lock up. There are M1903 and M1903A1 rifles and I would swear a M1903A3 in combat.
Aggravating are the images of the German 1st Lincks Hande Gewar regiment.......OK the film is reversed and so it looks like a group of Krauts have left handed K98s made in Mirror image of everyone else’s. Some Left handed Garands, too. My guess is the same problem that appears in Gun Magazines on occasion, some art director decides that for visual impact people and guns should be facing the direction opposite the way they are on film, so they simply flip the image. It is annoying to say the least.
At some point I would like to get a DVD copy of the series and take a better look at the rifles and other gear.
Any how I thought the WWII cranks would be interested that the propaganda is worth listening too (or turning the sound off on) to see the gear.
-Bob Hollingsworth
(What does this have to do with rifles , kBob?)
I have not watched it all and frequently been tempted to turn off the sound (besides all the “oh it was awful” and “Darn it they treated us differently because we were not WASPs” And “boy was the military stupid” there was the fact that all machine guns sounded suspiciously like stock sound for a M1919 Browning MG and every rifle goes the same variety of “Bang” and all artillery makes the same “boom”) I have enjoyed the images.
Much of it is clips I have never seen.
One image I found interesting was a large group of Black Artillerist doing rifle exercises ( not drill but calisthenics with the rifle for weight training) with the M1917 “Enfield” rifles. This I found neat as some THR folks have claimed that the M1917 was NEVER issued to WWII US troops.
I’ve seen a couple of Johnson LMG/ ARs and maybe one Johnson rifle (1st SSB?) Lots of M1 Garands and one I think had the early gas cylinder and lock up. There are M1903 and M1903A1 rifles and I would swear a M1903A3 in combat.
Aggravating are the images of the German 1st Lincks Hande Gewar regiment.......OK the film is reversed and so it looks like a group of Krauts have left handed K98s made in Mirror image of everyone else’s. Some Left handed Garands, too. My guess is the same problem that appears in Gun Magazines on occasion, some art director decides that for visual impact people and guns should be facing the direction opposite the way they are on film, so they simply flip the image. It is annoying to say the least.
At some point I would like to get a DVD copy of the series and take a better look at the rifles and other gear.
Any how I thought the WWII cranks would be interested that the propaganda is worth listening too (or turning the sound off on) to see the gear.
-Bob Hollingsworth