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Two pics from Mongolia - once and now:

Here a mounted guard from the nineties, and here a mounted policeman during Naadam-horserace last year Both use horses from Mongolia, just the equipment has completely altered.

Nicole

Sounds good I want buy the book, but still waiting if it will be published in german language too.

Did anybody already heard about "Riding into the Twilight" from Carsten Fries?

Here is one link for preview:
http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic. ... 4#p1552184

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Nicole

If you take a look on average Corpse size of Wehrmacht in 2nd half of WW2 the Kosaken-Kavallerie-Korps wasn't anything exceptional, even if US-'experts' might claim so. Korps-level support units were normally no integral part of the Korps, but assigned on purpose. So you might be surprised as in Hun...

Please, take a look on organisation and formation of XV. SS-Kosaken-Kavallerie-Korps and tell me where it did not have had Corps-strenght?
And for the blend of armour and horses, just take a look on the organisation of Heer-Kavallerie-Division in late war...

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Nicole

It is more possible that Manteuffel was simply misstranslated. When he meant "mounted" he surely rather talked about mounted on trucks... as everybody knows Red Army was in 1944/45 well equiped with US-vehicles.

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Nicole

Well, Westerners can hardly imagine how it really was, when Red Army conquered a territory. As it was usual for them to loot each and everything they could get into their hand. So they were not depending so much on their rear area support. Well, for the civilians in those areas it was a tragedy, not...

Here a picture of my new equipment, the German "Lanzenschuh" - reproduction made on originale scales:
It was used till 3rd October 1927!

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Nicole

Hi Lookas, interesting project you start. Thank You for information. If i good understand, this Hilfspacktaschen was used together with a bread-bag. No, thats wrong. The Hilfspacktaschen were the same material as bread-bag, but they were put/buckled "under" the usual leather Packtaschen. I...

Before Packtasche M34 were:

-Packtasche 26

-changed Packtasche a.A. to M26

-Packtasche a.A. introduced in 1920

Both models were used in combination with socalled Hilfspacktaschen from brown breadbag-material. Hilfspacktaschen were introduced and used since 1895.

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Nicole

Hi Lookas,

I sent you a PM

Nicole

Wow Jan, cool that you share with us the pictures of your bag! Seems to be in very good condition.

Here I have a War-photograph of the "Beschlagzeugtasche":
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Nicole

Interesting. Do you know the year of the photo? Hi Pat, sadly I don't know the date when the photo was taken - but here I have bought a photo of a Japanese cavalryman that was taken in December 1943 in China. In China.jpg There is a handwriting on the photos backside, but its difficult to read it c...

Here I tried to make photos of my horse with the field equipment of the German cavalry from the year 1941. Kavallerieausrüstung WK2.JPG The weight of the complete equipment my horse is carrying on this photos is 30,6 kg - but with the exception of one horseshoe (Heereshufeisen 32) the bags (Packtasc...

Here I got a new photograph for my collection. I am not sure if it shows pure Japanese cavalry, but maybe just mounted officers?
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Nicole

I just got the link to this very nice video, showing Japanese Cavalry probably in China.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8auO5yDrDs

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Nicole

And here I have found in my book Die Reitkunst der Welt an den Olympischen Spielen 1936 by Gustav Rau, some photos of Baron Takeichi Nishi at the Olympics in Berlin 1936, where he participated with two horses in two equestrian disciplines, the Military with Ascot and Show-Jumping with Uranus. Rittme...

Can anyone comment on the saddle displays on that website?

Which saddle you mean? Could you put in here the link?

Nicole

Is this cavalryman wearing goggles on his cap?

Yes, he is wearing dust goggles.

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Nicole

Here I got a good link on Japanese cavalry: http://japanese-cavalry.cocolog-nifty.com/ In my opinion a very good site. I also wanted to contact them, but the mail on this page is out of function. I got every time an delivery error. Has anybody an idea how to contact the people of this webpage? Or ha...