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roy elderkin wrote:I think you will find that the members of the of the forum, are very well informed about most things military dealing with horses. And military topics in general, around the world.

[sigh] I didn't know if anyone was familiar with that program, was my point....

This is a program about the Household Cavalry (in the UK); don't know if you gents are familiar with it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fHeJ3MwZJA

Anyone here recall this, and if so, are you a member?

Here's another photo showing the rifle belt and doughnut ring for the rifle. One can see the handle of the entrenching tool below the trooper's left hand, with picket pin handle. I believe the bayonet (handle near left shoulder) attached to the chest bandolier.

This sounds like they are talking about two different weapons, the Browning machine rifle and the Browning automatic rifle. Can anyone clarify this? The journal outlined how the machine-rifle out-performed the BAR in part because it had a heavier barrel, and was capable of select-fire. It said some...

Regarding the SSI worn by the 1st AC Sqdn, I have a copy of a requisition from the QM of the 1st Cav. Div. to QM at Ft. Sam Houston, TX dated Oct. 29, 1934 requesting SSI for the various units of the 1st Cav. Div. A Type 6 SSI was specified for Ordnance, Signal Corps, Medical Troops and Troop A, 1s...

OK, don't know if you gents saw this: http://books.google.com/books?id=OIMDAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false It's The Cavalry Journal for 1921, wherein there is discussion about the next year's incorporation of machine rifles into the ...

"California's Gold" was a popular, long-running local-interest show hosted by the late Huell Howser, and this segment features a reunion a Camp Lockett CA in San Diego County, where the 10th, 11th and 28th Cavalry regiments were stationed during WWII. When these shows were put online, I so...

CC = "combat car", perhaps?

This M1922 is very interesting - I had never heard of it. I've Googled but can only find vague references about it. I suspect it was an experimental project. Only a few hundred were ever built and the M1922 was removed from service before several years before the Second World War. http://forum.juhli...

Horse cavalry units had never possessed BAR's in their TO&E; it's interesting to read of this late-war TO&E, i.e., to see that it was still the same.

I'm interested in seeing the scans in question, as they are no longer viewable.

I've had this image for a while and thought I'd post it; it's a nice photo of the 8th Cav in Texas and evidently shows some experimental equipment (bandoleers, rifle bucket) which I don't think one sees much in the old photos.

Can't tell if they've got their bayonets...

I found this footage on YouTube tonight, and thought I'd post it. It was shot near Camp Hale, Colorado in 1956 and shows the 4th FAB., along its horses and mules. Pack howitzers are seen being loaded on mules. There was another pack unit at Hale or Carson which was the 35th QM Company (Pack). They b...

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