You gotta love my engineers. Talk about an enterprising group of individuals. This is a CLASSIC.
Sent to me by Irving Cherney, 540th Combat Engineer. That's him and his sidekick babe, Annie.
Marion J Chard
Proud Daughter of Walter (Monday) Poniedzialek
540th Engineer Combat Regiment, 2833rd Bn, H&S Co, 4th Platoon
There's "No Bridge Too Far"
Ha-ha, a really good one Steve. No, looks rather petite to me too!
Marion J Chard
Proud Daughter of Walter (Monday) Poniedzialek
540th Engineer Combat Regiment, 2833rd Bn, H&S Co, 4th Platoon
There's "No Bridge Too Far"
The BIG German guns were hard to find when they first went into action because they would roll them in and out of a RR tunnel ! With a range of 38 miles they could hit anything on the front line.
Traversing them was THE problem. 2 degrees horizontall movement is the stats on them. SO they used a curve in the RR tracks to aim them lft and righrt.
IN S. France I watched a dud spin end over end after it hit at to low an angle, It reminded me of a kitchen stove range boiler. 12"x60" flippinmg thru the sky. It is probably still there. UXB !
