One of the sites that I bookmarked ages ago. An excellent piece of work, especially the manuals (there are even some manuals of smallarms): Scanned manuals on ammunition and weapons.
Hi. This is why I always love to search around in forums. I was searching for the TM-9-1985-5 for about two years now and Bingo, here it is... This gives me material for some months, thanks for this link. Yours tom!
Hi. By the way: some nice japanese gimmicks from another US TM: explosive coal: Some different "Pineapples": explosive soap: explosive bricks: Yours tom!
IF one were to visit the Australian National Archives website (National Archives of Australia) and run a search using the terms "SRD Technical Handbook" (control symbol is Q9/B), one might be very pleasantly surprised. Just as an aside, we have some of the items shown in this Handbook in our museum collection, obtained over the past ten years from the former training areas in the vicinity of the Z-Experimental Station in Cairns. They are in quite good nick, along with the .303, Japanese 7.7mm, .45 ACP and .30 M1 carbine rounds. I've got a 36M Mills Bomb cotter pin and ring from Z-ES as my key ring.
Was just reading, can't remember where, about a Lancaster rear gunner who used to take a house brick with him on each trip as his little contribution to the war effort. Not an explosive one though! LOL. Might even have read it on here!
Collecting munitions, 'live' or otherwise from ranges is not what could be called 'good practice'. Even if you think it is a 'good idea' could you please not encourage some of the younger, less experienced readers of the forum into the same folly.
Step away from the keyboard plant-pilot. If you want to go off half-cocked how about you take it to a PM so I don't have to embarass you publicly? Unfortunately, with zero knowledge of who we are and what we do, you are not equipped to comment, let alone to lecture in such a condescending manner. Having said that... Of course, kids, Uncle PP is absolutely correct. Don't go wandering around your local battlefield or training area picking up old metal things. It is dangerous and not "good practice". Now PP, here's the skinny. As part of a last ditch survey of the Z-ES site prior to it being razed, developed and built upon, we participated in an Environmental Protection Agency-sponsored UXO survey as well as several heritage surveys of the site. Our resident EOD/UXO specialist is a former Royal Australian Navy Clearance Diver who is a Defence preferred EOD contractor with a major UXO Remediation company here in Australia. He certified that any range produce to be recovered by us was fired or inert and the few actual UXOs (all PIAT rounds) onsite were dealt with appropriately by the Army EOD section. Parts of the recovered materials were donated to the local Cairns RSL, the home of the new Z Special Unit memorial. Still more went to the McMillan Light Horse Museum in Maryborough, while the rest is with us in storage. All materials were recovered correctly, safely and most of all, appropriately from an historic WWII site which no longer exists as such.
Now that sounds a little more responsible than your first comment, which is the one I commented on. All I was interested in is the 'impression' you put across and how it could be interpreted. Embarrass me publicly all you wish, you do not know how qualified I am to comment, that was not a 'lecture' and it seems you are the one being condescending. But hey, you crack on.
Keep it civil chaps - sounds like a misunderstanding. The point about the dangers of battlefield finds has been well made by two qualified members, and others reading this thread should take heed. Thank you gentlemen, for making us aware of these potentially lethal objects.
