Guess the picture quiz!

[Jerry B]

Sonic warfare against the Japanese? As seen in the long and the short and the tall, if I remember my war movies correctly

[Battery Command Post]

Members of the British Royal Artillery?

Before I can say "yes" or "no" you would have to give me a guess for the "what are they doing?" bit

Rob

[KradSpam]

RA guys siting guns? range plotting?

[ph3s]

I don't know what branch it is, but this guys are Air Traffic Controllers, the very first one. One of them is making mars on the zone paper, second is in touch with the plane crue /s

Something like 'Charly, Bravo, 3, 5, 12 to toch point, dissent 300 , over'

[Battery Command Post]

RA guys siting guns? range plotting?

Thats good enough KradSpam, you got it

It's a picture of a Troop Command Post of the Royal Canadian Artillery in Italy 1944. The guy on the left is the wireless operator who would relay target information (usually map references) from the OP. The young kid on the right is a GPOA (Gun Position Officer's Assistant) or "ack" who is using an artillery board to convert the target info into firing data for the guns (switch and range). The officer in the middle is the Gun Position Officer and he is operating the 'Tannoy' speaker system to give orders to the four guns in the troop. There would usually be another man in the TCP operating the telephone links to the Battery CP and the other TCP.

OK, so you're up KradSpam

Rob

[KradSpam]

Interesting stuff Rob, reading about battles you often hear of artillery from the infantryman's perspective. Rarely with behind the scenes details OK I'm going to find a good one now, I hope....

[KradSpam]

OK, what do we have here then...

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[Panzer 3]

Hi,
That is a W.W.1 flame thower, it would have been buried in a tunnel and there would have been a shaft going up to the firing point. I think it has a range of about something like 100 metres. ( dont know it.s real name. )
Dave.

[Battery Command Post]

OK, what do we have here then...

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It's called a Livens Large Gallery Flame Projector, i believe

But Panzer3 got it in theory...

Rob

[KradSpam]

Nice job Pz3, that's right it is a "Livens Large Gallery Flame Projector". Where these things were deployed on the Somme the British managed to take the German lines with very light loses, but these gains could not be exploited due to the obvious results of the rest of the attack. Had they made them in the hundreds rather than just 4 machines things may have been different......

A great example of weird crap we British create in war also

Find a good one Pz3!