Hello chaps
I wonder if anyone knows what this photo shows?
I found this glass slide in my company's archives this afternoon.
It shows what seems quite clearly to be a RE BD team in a field in Leicestershire one hot summer.
The men are clearly pleased with themselves at having dug something up from the trench at the front of the photo - they have pick-axes, shovels and what looks like a set of shear-legs lying on the floor behind them.
The object they are holding is the puzzler.
The part on the right looks like a once-domed tail end of a bomb and the large central pipe looks possibly like a central exploder tube.
From Pawlas, the US German Ordnance manual, ARP Objects Dropped From the Air etc, it looks like it could be part of a Flam 500, but the pipe they are holding seems a little wider and not so long as in the diagrams, though it has the end cap the man fourth from left is holding in his hands.
The whole thing does look quite shiny and oily too. I know men were men in those days, but would they have been holding it with their bare hands as I know bomb explosive etc often gave dermatitis?
What do you reckon?
Thanks
Austin
I wonder if anyone knows what this photo shows?
I found this glass slide in my company's archives this afternoon.
It shows what seems quite clearly to be a RE BD team in a field in Leicestershire one hot summer.
The men are clearly pleased with themselves at having dug something up from the trench at the front of the photo - they have pick-axes, shovels and what looks like a set of shear-legs lying on the floor behind them.
The object they are holding is the puzzler.
The part on the right looks like a once-domed tail end of a bomb and the large central pipe looks possibly like a central exploder tube.
From Pawlas, the US German Ordnance manual, ARP Objects Dropped From the Air etc, it looks like it could be part of a Flam 500, but the pipe they are holding seems a little wider and not so long as in the diagrams, though it has the end cap the man fourth from left is holding in his hands.
The whole thing does look quite shiny and oily too. I know men were men in those days, but would they have been holding it with their bare hands as I know bomb explosive etc often gave dermatitis?
What do you reckon?
Thanks
Austin