I have never seen one of these before, but maybe a shot of the base of 'it' might garner some better guesses. It seems to be nominally a 1" fine thread.
Maggie’s Military Jeopardy
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From your hints: "small" segment + "wider" selection of branches inputting=? Coast Guard
It's American
"pop that balloon" and 'fiddle'=???
It's American
"pop that balloon" and 'fiddle'=???
It looks like the plug one pulls out before placing the fuse into a mine like a Claymore, or the practice fuse kit for one.
This, along with the WW2/Korea timeframe, makes me wonder if it could be related to the Gibson Girl emergency transmitter? Kinda fiddle shaped, not too many people (hopefully) actually had to use it. But I thought they used a kite to string the antenna, rather than a balloon.
But if it is part of a Gibson Girl, I have no idea what part it would be. Maybe connected to the antenna or something?
Gibson girl had a box kite and a balloon, I grabbed a balloon and a hydrogen generator when ours were being scrapped but missed out on getting the adaptor that joins them together.
WW1 time delay fuse for a Mk36 "Mills bomb". That was a hard one, I knew it was a fuse or a fuse case but thought it navy by the patina and use of materials.
You'd pretty much have to search for Mk36 grenade or Mills bomb in order to google this one.
Sihr, figured you'd probably walked right by a few last month...
You'd pretty much have to search for Mk36 grenade or Mills bomb in order to google this one.
Sihr, figured you'd probably walked right by a few last month...
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Germany claimed this American weapon so destructive they called it's use a war crime and threatened to execute several POW's for every German soldier killed by one.
Not only walked over one... but when we were at the Combles battlefield, we found a couple of live ones. Well, live-ish. Pretty corroded.
But no playing with them!
Cheers,
Sirhr
Funny, early this morning I was doing a search on "Cutaway of potato masher grenade" and came across several other cutaways. But not the mIlls bomb. But right on!
Great stumper Sean!
Cheers,
Sirhr
Great stumper Sean!
Cheers,
Sirhr
Strykervet, for the WIN. Good job. Ya'll were overthinking it, and I apologize for saying it was American. I find out now that it was British. The one in question was dated 1942. Now, so many carried these things, but how many actually saw what was inside?
Who wouldn't "throw it away" before using it?
How many individuals would take these apart, to cut/trim/time their own fuses?
So in the end,,,, hope it was fun. It was on our end.
Who wouldn't "throw it away" before using it?
How many individuals would take these apart, to cut/trim/time their own fuses?
So in the end,,,, hope it was fun. It was on our end.
Interesting reading about this:
https://owlcation.com/humanities/World-War-1-History-Germany-Declares-Shotgun-Inhumane
Strykervet, for the WIN. Good job. Ya'll were overthinking it, and I apologize for saying it was American. I find out now that it was British. The one in question was dated 1942. Now, so many carried these things, but how many actually saw what was inside?
Who wouldn't "throw it away" before using it?
How many individuals would take these apart, to cut/trim/time their own fuses?
So in the end,,,, hope it was fun. It was on our end.
Thanks, that was a good one, probably the best on here yet! I keep trying, but I just can't seem to come up with something this damn good. I'm gonna go bust out my old military books, sure there's something good in there.
You had me randomly thinking about that goddamn picture throughout the day for nearly a week too.
As for taking them apart to alter timing, not sure what they did with this one but with the US fuse, which is the same fuse we've been using for nearly a century, you can take it apart and do all sorts of shit to modify a hand grenade, none of which is in the standard FM I'm sure. They can be made into mines, trip mines, long delay, no delay, you name it.
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Yep!
Machineguns and artillery and poison gasses are okay, but the shotgun was a step too far!
Edit: If you answer it and you KNOW you got it right, just go ahead and post the next question if you don't mind, if all of you are on board. It keeps the game moving and I tend to check this thread every morning really early and relish the next question.
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I think one of the things that made the fuse so hard was thinking it was American, not British.
None the less, that was a great one. FM
None the less, that was a great one. FM
Give me a couple of days to get to the back corner of the shed, I know I have a "souvenir" there that I should be able to get a pic of that should not show up in Google search. Two more twelve hour shifts and my work week is over.
Spray painting the lenses on Soviet spy satellites... Don't know the name of the program though. SDI?
Easy. You stuck a teenage Japanese pilot with minimal training in a paper mache A6M3, and pointed them towards a ship.
That would be right! Never 'got off the ground' so to speak. But it was a concept in the 1960's!
Cheers,
Sirhr
You had birds inside pecking at a picture of the ship to control the guidance. The birds were trained to peck the image of a ship and get food... when loaded in the bomb, they pecked the picture of the ship on the optical lens... and steered the bomb into the ship.
I'm not making this stuff up....
Cheers,
Sirhr
I'm not making this stuff up....
Cheers,
Sirhr
I couldn't remember if they were pigeons or chickens... So I went with the generic 'birds.'
Thanks, Mike!
Cheers,
Sirhr
The fuse thing was great,[I didn't have any Mill's Bombs in my gear so I didn't have a clue] that one took a while so here is an easy one that should bring out some"colorful" answers.
Red Cross Girls
What did you call them and what did you think of them and where did you see them?
Doughnut Dollies is too easy so I will take that one. FM
Red Cross Girls
What did you call them and what did you think of them and where did you see them?
Doughnut Dollies is too easy so I will take that one. FM
You got it! I was hoping that'd be a harder one but you seem hot shit on your history too... I bet there's an era I can find somewhere that'll stump you, but it looks like I'm really gonna have to try with you guys!
Pigeons weren't the only bird brained idea though.
The one I had specifically in mind was the cat. Common housecat. It worked by having a window in the front the cat could look out of, a circle and crosshair type reticle with the ship in the middle (not exactly sure who the reticle was for) and the cat had to keep the ship in the window. The cat naturally knows it's in freefall and assumes the upright, stable position preparing to land. If it moved out of focus, the cat got squirted with water to put it back on track (I think the earliest test didn't squirt, just depended on them trying to land on a dry spot). The problem with all this was the cat didn't realize the ground below was water and the ship was the only dry ground. Also cats aren't really afraid of water, they just don't like to get wet sometimes like us. Bats were used to try and burn down Japanese cities too, that would have worked but the bomb won out, but during the trials it was so successful that they burned down the base where it was tested with only a handful of bats, pissing off a lot of brass. The plan was to use thousands and thousands with incendiaries strapped to the large bats. Shows how desperate that war got.
But during the testing I think you are right, it was a pigeon used prior to the cat, the reasoning being the cat was "smarter" and could be negatively influenced by water. The pigeon version operated by it pecking a screen.
Most all of them failed for one singular reason: G-force on a bomb is far in excess of what most mammals can handle. They were DOA or dead asleep on impact. That's why it failed, not because it was a crazy idea.
Yeah, I capitalized "Navy" to indicate it's "our" navy. I don't always do that though, sorry if the wording was puzzling, I was trying not to give too much away. Those were good answers though, and yeah, the Japanese no-shit just used humans --what was scarier than the guided bomb was the human operated torpedo --bigger payload, guaranteed to sink ALL the biggest ships. And they supposedly had thousands lining the beaches in wait for an invasion (that could also be them trying to justify the use of the bomb, I don't know).
My dad worked on "Star Wars" in addition to other programs... It was a program designed to force USSR into a fake arms race they couldn't win. There is a formula that dictates how technology evolves; for instance, all the new shit you see was designed 20 years ago but the tech to build it wasn't around. But the formula allows optimization of designs so that when you CAN make an iPhone, you do. At the earliest possible point in time. USSR was trying to build things by reverse engineering, but you're just wasting cash trying to build things that can't be built yet, and since they were "cheating" they didn't know this! This was all made the more convincing by including real no-shit designs so their spies never knew what was real and what wasn't due to compartmentalization. It was so simple, it couldn't NOT work and brought the bear to it's knees.
Many former Star Was engineers continued designing weapons, others "went to the dark side" as they called it --to NASA. The dark side. Yeah.
Even the engineers participating didn't know. And some engineers were half spook, half engineer.
I'm gonna use up one of my lifelines here... My mother was a WAC nurse, hopefully she'll get back in time.
Doughnut Dolly is the only one I'm aware of. Red Cross was a bunch of dudes by this century and were just known as "vampires" (simply because they draw blood, but we all volunteered).
I'll guess though: Candy Girls? Thinking wanna fuck. Where? Back alley will do.
First seen them in Korea, Camp Wilbert on the third Thursday of the month. I only got to go see them myself 2 times during that tour. Some of the story's from their driver an escorts were either pure B/S or should have interested CID. Had to escort them once into the zone, so they could say they had seen it an been there. BFD to them, all B/S to those of us who had to take them.
There were many Red Cross Girls that were from out in the country and doing what they thought best to support the troops. Good on them and I admire them.
There were also some that didn't give a fuck and only there to get some loot. Key word here is GIVE.
The Red Cross is one place I will never donate.
Now, back to the original question, what were they called other than Doughnut Dollies? And what did you think of them, where did you encounter them etc.
Should be some colorful answers here. FM.
There were also some that didn't give a fuck and only there to get some loot. Key word here is GIVE.
The Red Cross is one place I will never donate.
Now, back to the original question, what were they called other than Doughnut Dollies? And what did you think of them, where did you encounter them etc.
Should be some colorful answers here. FM.
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Well it seems that my question about Red Cross Girls has caused this thread to jump the tracks and that was not my intention. I would like to see more questions on here.
Back to the Point; Maybe Red Cross Girls died out after RVN and did not make it to the Middle East conflicts or were better hidden.
In RVN the Red Cross Girls would be around with weird board games etc. to take the troops minds off of the war. Some were really nice and sincere but many were just around to haul ranking officers ashes. All any of us would do was look at those round eyed pussies and wish we could have some. Probably best that they didn't just give it up or everyone would be in line down at the Medic's bunker looking for help.
Our Slick drivers were very colorful when calling in as to what they were hauling.
"Flanker 4 Romeo, Trace3-6 I am inbound with 4 Biscuit Bitches, how do you read?"
Sometimes it was Cookie Cunts or other more colorful jargon. They didn't have a lot of respect either.
The only time I ever saw them other than in the rear with the gear was at LZ Mary when we came in off a very hard haul and there they were, wanting to play board games. Who could give a fuck? we are taking care of our dead and wounded and worry about them so stick that funny asses board game up your ass, I am sure it will fit.
We were so busy patching up and taking care of fallen troop's shit that we didn't even bat an eye other than look at it and wish. Most would have rated a 4/10 back in the World but looked good then. What would not have looked good then?
Anyway, back to the game. Someone come up with something. FM
PS The Red Cross will NEVER see any money from me.
Back to the Point; Maybe Red Cross Girls died out after RVN and did not make it to the Middle East conflicts or were better hidden.
In RVN the Red Cross Girls would be around with weird board games etc. to take the troops minds off of the war. Some were really nice and sincere but many were just around to haul ranking officers ashes. All any of us would do was look at those round eyed pussies and wish we could have some. Probably best that they didn't just give it up or everyone would be in line down at the Medic's bunker looking for help.
Our Slick drivers were very colorful when calling in as to what they were hauling.
"Flanker 4 Romeo, Trace3-6 I am inbound with 4 Biscuit Bitches, how do you read?"
Sometimes it was Cookie Cunts or other more colorful jargon. They didn't have a lot of respect either.
The only time I ever saw them other than in the rear with the gear was at LZ Mary when we came in off a very hard haul and there they were, wanting to play board games. Who could give a fuck? we are taking care of our dead and wounded and worry about them so stick that funny asses board game up your ass, I am sure it will fit.
We were so busy patching up and taking care of fallen troop's shit that we didn't even bat an eye other than look at it and wish. Most would have rated a 4/10 back in the World but looked good then. What would not have looked good then?
Anyway, back to the game. Someone come up with something. FM
PS The Red Cross will NEVER see any money from me.
Yeah, that sounds right. But where Silicon Valley was applying Moore's Law, USSR was busy reverse engineering whatever they could steal. It worked with the atom bomb, but it was ultimately used against them.
FM, I can't get the one with the Red Cross girls... I have heard of older vets complain about them and they really hated 'em. It was discussed on here few years back in fact, but I can't recall what all was said. I guess things are different today. Red Cross to us meant giving blood on post, which got you the rest of the day off, or UN shit, which we didn't do. They really weren't on our radar.
What were the board games you are talking about?
It's a good question, it's probably just the holiday and will pick back up.
A vise.
As to that chingadero sitting on it, I haven't a clue but will guess it is something that a line or rope is wrapped around for some reason or another. FM
As to that chingadero sitting on it, I haven't a clue but will guess it is something that a line or rope is wrapped around for some reason or another. FM
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