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Just wondering how does the bren relate to the newer weapons?                             parkie

yes,you certainly can't beat the bren,having fired one in combat a couple of times an amazing weopon,take the worst kind of punishment,and ready to go in a moments notice,And very accurate. all in all ,it is nice that someone takes the time to reflect on canada's war history,more from the point...

yes,It does seem strange to go to the museum,and see something you trained on .It's feels even stranger when your in the museum with it, and your grand daughter says grandpa isn't that you in that old picture,firing that gun.  Good lord, I've become a museum piece.                              ...

The old guy here again.parkie I was thinking after reading through pages of my old diary,about the first day’s after landing on Italy and them putting us up in the cemetery for the local area.I don’t know to this day,why they put us in there.It was a large area,and the whole place was set on...

yes back to drone's. also in use back then was a russian made jet engine drone,can't remember the name exactly,The chinese ended up using them for their,projects,using reverse engineering,Now it comes to me, a Lavochin,I beleive I spelled that right,could fly about 600 mph .                    ...

In your quest to appear to be in the know. You certainly take the guesswork out of anyone,having trouble finding info on the Uav's.It saves many the time,That don't have High speed and hours to surf.Thanks so much for all your info.                                                              ...

This is the old guy, parkie,I want to stop for a moment to reflect a bit on what Italy was like for theCanadian’s .I know that there has to be many books written on the subject of the Italian war,but I think most came from people who didn’t really have an idea what it was like,Newsmen and...

I'm sorry the pages are in no particular order,has the diary is in bad shape,so we try to make has much order out of them has we can.                                                                   A.C.(parkie)

From diary.Italy#3 Ran into infantry with mortar today. Some faces from the boys missing.We took four prisoners ,Indian regs wanted them,Hard feelings after the ridge.This is second week of no suitable water.Men are drinking from potholes.And Tire tracks.Some have found wine,but it only makes...

Most From diary.Italy#2 Men getting terrible sores from cactus wounds. Meds have mix called blue ointment,seems to make it worse.Body lice going through whole outfit.  no Treatment for them.Last days very hot. 90 in the day.                                                                      ...

From Diary.Italy #1 Last two days they have us in a holding area. We sleep in the graveyard for the local area Everyone put above ground here.most horrible smell.  Large beetles crawling out of the grave sites and into our food  and clothing. Men are having trouble eating.There are many ...

we have a long series of entries from my diary in Italy,We will copy directly to here,I think you will find them interesting. From diary –Italy Has I write,am cold,wet,and hungry.Last night got sent out on recover or destroy.we arrived the truck was not possible to recover.driver had taken...

Hi This comes out of the military's request for a low-cost,support-gunship,with long loitering capabilities,meaning it can remain over target area for 3-4 hours,expend,return.I doubt the design will allow for operation under about 10,000 feet for any length of time. It is only on paper. One of...

This is a joke  that got passed around overseas in England during the war, that the boy’s use to get a big laugh out of. Sergeant McGhee was the toughest gut breaker there was when it came to drill instructors. Last time out he was giving us instruction on the use of hand grenades. ‘’Right then...

I can't believe I let you get to me so much I misspelled grumman and lockheed

haywire.you are making me very uneasy,have you ever heard of a secrecy contract,well,trust me what you are doing is bordering on criminal.many people have worked tireless hours in the development of the uav's,to protect the people on the ground.If by a slim chance you should somehow stumble on...

Because of the type of things that Joe and I did, we ran into a lot of different people in Italy and we worked with some pretty, I suppose you might call, interesting folk. but wherever we were and whatever we were doing, Joe always tried to make room for the children that were left absolutely...

Things that one soldier will do for another,can quite frankly leave you just amazed. My brother Chester or Cecil has we called him,contacted malaria on Sicily.He carried it with him for all of Italy.To make it worse he came down with dysentery.The doctor we had running our med unit was well...

From letter(sent) Godstone England Dearest sister Can not say much only writing to tell that I received a package from home,days ago. Our younger brother Chester.You can pick yourself up off the floor now.He told you he was going to work,cutting timber,but he went and joined up,can not say who...

From letter(withheld) Godstone England Dearest Sister All is well the day of this letter.Could use more food, but there’s only so much for everyone The Germans have been bombing London very heavily.Flights of bombers seem to never end.The night is the worst,The sky glows from giant fires...