a virtual trip to the Canadian War Museum

[Dragunov]

today's portion: ww1.


a WW1 Canadian soldier.


Ross rifle. 100% pure Canadian made crap. jammed like there were only two tomorrows but was very accurate and great as a sporting rifle. .303 and straight pull action.


another view. if you didn't know, the bolt is open.


the weapons wall!


a painting of Canadian troops somewhere.


a... big gun? some cannon, but i don't really know what caliber or...


John McCrae's M1911 I believe.


a porthole and some other parts from the Lusitania.


a something on spy techniques and stuff. no, the carrier pidgeon is not real.


the invincible Canadian soldier, now equipped with SMLE.


Ross sniper rifle. the scope is on the left side.


more sniper and MG stuff. the armour is for gerry MGers.


Oh the No! It's a the Boche!!! note the moustache...


lewis gun with periscope.


another weapons wall


German MG. note ww2 ish ammo can.


Flieger!!!


boom?


barrel wear. just kidding, it was blown when the Germans retreated from Vimy (summat like that)


iron cross and bit of a biplane.


instruments of pain... or healing?


a 'silencer' or (ahem ahem) a grenade launcher for SMLE


armored car with Vickers.


and now for a sneak peek at the WW2 section... coming soon as the images take forever to load in such quantity...





if you would like some additional pics of something, i might have 'em so throw something at me...

Cheers!
Dragunov

[phylo_roadking]

Love the baseball bat with added boot hobnails!!! Now THAT is a Good Idea......

[Dragunov]

yuppee, we kanadalainen love to play baseball... with heads!!!!

looks like this one's going to the outfield...


hmm... that pistol with bayonet looks like fun too.

[Dragunov]

OK now!


pilot training stuffs.


a Canadian fighter plane? nope, a primitive flight sim, i think.



helps to be prepared, the Atlantic is brutal.


depth charge launcher.


Enigma. wish it was mine


Canadian trooper, Battle of Hong Kong.


Jap troop, same theater.


Canadian made exports. sten, bren, browning hi-power, lee-enfield.


more exports. radio in RUSSIAN and 2 inch mortar.


kid's games.


crossbow: European design, made in Canada (by POWs). oh yeah, the reising smg in .45 too.


a 'fragment' of a .30 browning, from a bomber.


Flakalackalacka!


Flieger! this one's a spitfire.


some instrument for the flak. can someone tell me what it is, before i make a thread about it and waste precious bandwidth?


another shot of the same thing.


flak breech, gerry with shell and bomber (type?) wheel.


oh no! the Italians! (not I-talians)


Projecter! Infantry! Anti-Tank!


i heard (from sniper1shot, actually) that this StuG was dragged up from an Albertan target range. so the dommage! is not really authentic. go ahead and carbon date it.


the Thompson, supposedly the only Ami weapon Canadian troops respected.


No! i said sturmgeschütz, not sturmgewehr!







oh yeah... plenty of 'junk' shots (not much, really) of the interior, just ask...




grenades.


Fallschirmjäger!


surely our beloved government wouldn't leave a live gun near public hands? right. the mag is welded, and the only moving parts are the mag release button and the 200m flip up sight.


i'm gonna get you, ya dirty jerry...


browning hi-power. so well made, the sights are adjustable to 200m. actually, we're just optimistic.


James Bond's toys.


our ultra high-tech lander sim. actually it's pretty cool.


MG-42. beaute, aint it?


a peek at the vehicle hall, more on that later.






still more to come...

[phylo_roadking]

Yes, thats a Link Trainer, used to try and give trainees some experience of night flying and blind flying dead-reckoning navigation.

Er, no harm to the Canadian Army....but they don't seem to have been able to bend the StuG too badly LMAO

[maschinengewehr42]

Impressive museum you have over there! A proper old-fashioned display with lots of interesting items, properly labelled. None of the silly gimmicks that are popular in the UK like revolving display cabinets that change round at the push of a button, interactive computer touch-screen displays, but at the expense of actual exhibits! No, the Canadians certainly got it right with this place.

The Bren is interesting. With the straight magazine it must be chambered for either 7.92mm Mauser (Inglis made a lot for the Nationalist Chinese) or else 7.62 Nato postwar.

[phylo_roadking]

I noticed that! Though I thought the postwar change for the NATO cartridge came among with a rebarrelling to an FN-style flash suppressor?

[Dragunov]

Er, no harm to the Canadian Army....but they don't seem to have been able to bend the StuG too badly LMAO

...uhh..err.. well, we're supposed to be peacekeepers. ok, maybe we ran out of funding... well, we preserve history well!

the bren... well, the Czech design had a straight mag. early version, perhaps? and those were all export things, the bren has Chinese markings. if the Chinese used 7.92, then mg42 is probably correct.

and we had a comp for the enigma, it could encrypt stuff. the system was wrong though, as all the wheels turned when you pressed a key. a nice sim can be found here:
http://enigmaco.de/index-enigma.html

[Dragunov]

more of the hall... later more of that.


Canadian weapons bucket.


Axis weapons bucket. note lack of k43 or g43.


StG-44


PaK 38 and Jerry.


Nebelwerfer.


Flak something. 20mm.


Sherman.


Bren carrier.


bord d'info


sometimes when you see a weapon you want to know the story behind them. usually you never find out its history...


Sten and Jeep.


Panzerfaust.



Volksgewehr something. does anybody know?


Market garden troop.
and so ends the ww2 tour. postwar and vehicles to come...

[Commissar D, the Evil]

Nice pictures Dragunov!!! I'm very grateful!

Best,
~D, the EviL

[Rajin Cajun]

Hmm whenever I go to visit my relatives in Newfoundland I might have to try and visit some museums up in Canada.

[Commissar D, the Evil]

Check out the pictures of the Jagdpanzer IV compared to the Matilda--you don't see that every day! Again, Great Job Dragunov!

Best,
~D, the EviL

[Dragunov]

Jagdpanzer IV compared to the Matilda

it's a valentine. that one was dragged up from a lake in Ukraine or some other former USSR state and given back as thanks.

[Commissar D, the Evil]

Ah, quite right Dragunov!!

But still, my point was the diffrences between a realtively useless British tank and the Jagdpanzer IV. The L/70 75 mm could kill any tank at 1,000 meters.

Best,
David

[Dragunov]

but could it kill the M1 abrams???!?

oh and Rajin, Ottawa is pretty far (15+ hours driving) from Newfie land.


THE POSTWAR SECTION!!!





naval guns.


m3 halftrack.


you're listening to CBC radio 2..... (the m3's radios.)


Russ stuff in korean use. DP-28, Mosin Nagant m/44 and TT-33


Pah Pah Shah!!! this thing is HUGE. i didn't expect it to be so big.


lee enfield sniper.


m2 carbine top reciever


Korean war weapons. IS THAT AN M2 CARBINE?!?! (it is)


breech of thy naval guns, same as seen earlier.


GO EASTERN BLOCK!!!


C1 and C1 smg. (FN FAL and Sterling)


some... tank.


sabots and other destructive devices





.30 cal on skis.


Ferret recon vehicle. note bren.


Uzi, given to some Canadian of importance.


peacekeepers wall.


part of a UN plane that was shot down.


the Canadian soldier of the Future!!! actually it's just a bomb disposal robot.


trooper.


sea survival stuff.

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my friend's preferred 'sidearm'. a howitzer.


T-55 or T-72.


RPG man. too bad they took this dude out of the current display.


the AK family. Dragunov SVD, RPK, two AKM or 74s and a makarov for good value.


weapons of the Canadian Armed Forces (whoohoo!) SIG sauer, HK MP5, C7 (another m-16 copy), Csomething (FN minimi) C7 with scope, C7 with m203 (hiding behind the other c7)




but could it make Simo Häyhä envious? maybe.



AND SO ENDS THE POSTWAR SECTION!!!

next up, the vehicuole hall!

this is CNN!