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Welcome to Geoff’s D-Day 80th Anniversary tribute chat thread.

Gern said:
Silly question.

All the sites I've looked at insist that all US soldiers wore a gas mask during the D-day invasion. Considering it was such a momentous occasion, how come nobody except Dragon make 1/35 figures with gas masks - despite the fact there are quite a few sets saying they are D-day figures?

I'm toying with the idea of doing summat for this GB and a small dio with figures seemed OK - but I don't like Dragon kits (too many parts!). I've even thought of trying to make a gas mask but I fear that's beyond my limited abilities.

I'm OK with the idea that soldiers would discard them once landed, but that means I can't show the actual landing. Doohh!
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... mini-diorama showing squaddies about to land fidgeting with, or discarding their respirators...small landing craft internals (very basic in reality) perhaps? -, loads of potential for effects (water, vomit, equipment and 'human interest' in shed-loads ...
Steve
 
they are the black rubber pouches front and centre.
you can' see them in the first and third shot because they all have their backs to the camera.....
I reckon the second shot was taken a few days before
 
Neil Merryweather said:
they are the black rubber pouches front and centre.
you can' see them in the first and third shot because they all have their backs to the camera.....
I reckon the second shot was taken a few days before
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First shot, guy in the centre by the ramp, not wearing one……third shot, guys to the right do not have anything on their chins. Caption on second shot says LCT taken on 6th June. Follow up wave probably, but D Day, certainly. Shots were taken from the National WW2 museum, so I’d like to think they were accurately labelled….
Dave asked if they were wearing them, not carrying them, by the way Neil……but I may have misunderstood what he meant.
 
Tim Marlow said:
First shot, guy in the centre by the ramp, not wearing one……third shot, guys to the right do not have anything on their chins. Caption on second shot says LCT taken on 6th June. Follow up wave probably, but D Day, certainly. Shots were taken from the National WW2 museum, so I’d like to think they were accurately labelled….
Dave asked if they were wearing them, not carrying them, by the way Neil……but I may have misunderstood what he meant.
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hmm, I took it to mean carrying them....
 
here are a whole load more-
pic taken in Weymouth on ,I believe, 4 June, so the real thing.
Genuine colour photo from the time as well, not colourized.

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Neil Merryweather said:
here they are

How many do you need Dave-I've collected a few for my LCVP dio-I can spare some
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I was talking of the troops wearing them rather than carrying them.

Neil - thanks for the offer. For the action-packed dramatic dio I have in mind, I'd need one! Count it - one!
 
Sonething happened today and i feel i should share in this thread

Went up to the cemetary today.....put some flowers down on wifes grave.........its my usual practice to go for a walk....bit of exercise and fresh air and peace and quiet.........i have actually visited every war grave to pay my respects....theres a few interesting ones.....but today i was just having a bimble about...walked past a headstone of a guy who had died in 1972 (so not a war memorial style head stone).....but had a VC......so i looked him up

The recipient of the only VC awarded on D Day

Made a bit of a nuisence of himself that day...he was a CSM in the Green Howards...took out 2 pill boxes single handed capturing over 30 germans......then cleared a trench......then took a platoon forward to take out another pill box.....got pinned down in a building......fell back and realised 2 guys had been left behind.....picked up a bren gun and went back for them......qoute was 'i took them in....i will bring them back'

Brave man
 
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@Jakko did you ever get around to the Piper L-4 on GMC CCKW? In the post from GroupTruck Build thread you noted
" I already bought the Bronco 1:35 scale Piper Cub last year or so for exactly that reason :smiling3: I don’t have a GMC kit yet, though (and it would probably end up needing two: Hobby Boss for the chassis and load bed, Italeri for the cab), nor any real idea of what the racks in the load bed looked like to carry the Cub."
If you still want these details of the cargo jigs just let me know. This is one of my long-standing projects too, as well as the jeep-towed version landed catastrophically from LCT at Omaha on D-Day.
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The Grasshoppers were also landed from LSTs on open cab CCKWs in later disembarkations, so the Tamiya truck works for that arrangement.

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From FM 6-150 Organic Field Artillery Air Observation

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Hey, John, fancy seeing you here :) No, I haven’t got round to that one yet, though I have come close to buying a GMC a few times … but every time the thing that stopped me was the amount of work needed and all of the other things I also want to build. Which is my perpetual excuse, of course ;) But I would be happy to see the information you have collected on these trucks, it might just push me closer to actually building one …
 
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Hello guys,

Firstly big apologies for not being around for a while.

A brief explanation is in order so here goes.
I started a new job at the beginning of July which didn’t go well leading to some MH difficulties and a big loss of mojo.
Hence I haven’t been contributing much and haven’t been following any of your great builds.
Anyway the new job has been binned and I’ve gone back to my old job where I am much happier and I am in a much better frame of mind.

So I’ll be back to the bench and catching up with your splendid work.

Thanks for your understanding :thumb2:

Geoff.
 
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Shame Lee, never mind no point carrying on if you’re not enjoying it.

Geoff.
 
Wish I had joined as D-Day is my favourite subject to build. Just read the whole episode here. Imagine Eisenhower must have had the same issues but in a much larger scale and managed to pull things together. I guess our little rumble has been dusted and put away and we can get on with the tribute.
I take ions to finish anything and GB timelines can be a problem so I'll just enjoy the postings and pictures...some great references I've not seen before.
I might just put together an anti aircraft GMC Bofors 40mm Gun but will need clarification if they were used during Normandy. It doesn't have the circled stars in the decal sheet for air recognition but can use spares that I have.

Cheers,
Wabble
 
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