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23-05-12, 22:55
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Combat Recovery
As mentioned above, track is missing. Carrier has been dragged onto a recovery trailer, which must be about to tilt forward. May be it is easier to tie it down, while the deck is still tilted back?
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Bluebell Carrier Armoured O.P. No1 Mk3 W. T84991 Carrier Bren No2.Mk.I. NewZealand Railways. NZR.6. Dodge WC55. 37mm Gun Motor Carriage M6 Jeep Mb #135668 So many questions.... 
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24-05-12, 00:03
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They may be watching the roadwheels on that plank. They would have laid the plank there so the road wheels don't get caught up on the girder type ramps.
Last edited by rob love; 24-05-12 at 14:11.
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24-05-12, 00:12
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AAh yes recovery but under fire, did not spot the trailer and the truck looked to small to take a carrier, intersesting picture.
kev.
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2pdr Tank Hunter Universal Carrier 1942 registered 11/11/2008. 3" Mortar Universal Carrier 1943 registered 06/06/2009. 1941 Standard Mk1 stowage Carrier, Caunter camo. 1941 Standard Mk1 stowage Carrier, light stone. 10 cwt wartime mortar trailer. 1943 Mk2 Daimler Dingo. 1943 Willys MB. 1936 Vickers MG carrier No1 Mk1 CMM 985.
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#5
24-05-12, 04:26
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Rob
My guess is its incoming, judging by the guy on the ground.
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Bluebell Carrier Armoured O.P. No1 Mk3 W. T84991 Carrier Bren No2.Mk.I. NewZealand Railways. NZR.6. Dodge WC55. 37mm Gun Motor Carriage M6 Jeep Mb #135668 So many questions....
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#6
24-05-12, 04:49
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Further information and a better quality version of that picture is on the AWM website here;
http://cas.awm.gov.au/item/013351 Ian
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#7
24-05-12, 05:11
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"Description
1942-10-05. RECOVERY UNITS OPERATING WITH THE A.I.F. IN THE WESTERN DESERT ARE DOING GOOD WORK IN THE SALVAGE AND REPAIR OF VEHICLES DAMAGED BY MINES AND ENEMY ACTION. THESE MEN OPERATE IN THE FORWARD AREAS AND CARRY OUT THEIR VALUABLE WORK OFTEN UNDER DIRECT FIRE FROM ENEMY BATTERIES. THIS PICTURE WAS TAKEN WHILE A SALVAGE CREW WAS AT WORK ON A BREN CARRIER. THE OPERATION WAS DISTURBED BY AN ENEMY SHELL EXPLODING UNCOMFORTABLY CLOSE. (NEGATIVE BY HURLEY)." Call me a cynic but there is a thing or two in this photo that don't add up. There is shrapnel still leaving the point of impact so the detonation is very fresh. Yet the guy on the ground somehow got there in fractions of a second. On the other hand, it may be a fire mission of more than one round, so perhaps the guy on the ground is the only one with any common sense, and this round was not the first in their vicinity. Quite the luck getting a shot of an explosion while it happens. I had a rocket or two land in my general vicinity within the last couple years, and like the old vets say, the ones coming at you are the ones you don't hear. The projectile flies faster than the speed of sound, so the first thing you hear is the explosion. If you are hearing the whistle, that one is going somewhere else, and may well have already passed by.
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