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Sunday, 31 October 2021

A Birmingham Screwdriver

 
A member of the Home Guard demonstrates the EY rifle with Number 68 anti tank grenade Dorking 3rd of August 1942
 
Picture: Lieutenant Tanner,War Office official photographer,© IWM H 22061
 
The infantryman's grenade.
 
1st Platoon 1st Company 5th Battalion 2nd Brigade 3rd Carpathian Rifles Division 2nd Polish Corps loading a 2 inch mortar at Faenza 13 February 1945
 
Picture: Sergeant Menzies (Photographer),Number 2 Army Film and Photo Section,Army Film and Photographic Unit,© IWM NA 22259 
 
The platoon's mortar.
 
A 3 inch mortar crew in action as the 20th Division prepares to advance on Prome on the 3rd of May 1945
 
Picture: Sergeant R.Watson,Number 9 Army Film and Photo Section,Army Film and Photographic Unit,© IWM SE 4041
 
The battalion's mortar.
 
A battery of 25 pounder guns used to fire on Japanese lines less than 6 miles away from a Z Craft on the Myebon Peninsula in Burma in January 1945
 
Picture: Sergeant W.L.Widmayer,Number 9 Army Film and Photo Section,Army Film and Photographic Unit,© IWM SE 1395
 
The division's artillery.
 
A 5.5 inch gun and tractor of heads to a new firing position near San Clemente on the 13th of February 1945
 
Picture: Sergeant Curry,Number 2 Army Film and Photo Section,Army Film and Photographic Unit,© IWM NA 22312
 
The corps's artillery.
 
Boche Buster a 250 ton 18 inch railway gun at Catterick on the 12th of December 1940
 
Picture: Mister Kessell,War Office official photographer,© IWM H 6089
 
The army's artillery.
 
More than two thousand shell cases used by Royal Marines manning the twin 5.25 inch gun X turret on HMS Sirius in the Sword area of Normandy
 
Picture: Lieutenant C.H.Parnall,Royal Navy official photographer,© IWM A 24324
 
Soldiers and marines understand that fire support requires different weapons for different tasks,yet some think the work of a naval gun may be done by a handful of cruise missiles.
 
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