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20-02-15, 02:49
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France, 1944
Great footage posted by Super Dave.
Shot in France, 1944. A demo put on by Queen's Own Rifles of Canada under direction of Lt. Stan Biggs. There are multiple images in the Canadian Archives of the crews, some are named, the location and exact date is included. MK-I* carriers upgraded to MK-II standard, then equiped with the transportable F.T. Interesting set up of the double storage tanks, consistent with the former Delft army museum WASP carrier. (whereever it has now ended up) That carrier also being an October, 1943 production MK-I*, serial # 21136, upgraded to MK-II in the U.K. before being equipped with the F.T. 
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20-02-15, 10:20
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Wasp
I have seen a post somewhere with direction from Hitler.
He considered the carrier wasp an unfair weapon and gave direct orders any Carrier Crew captured with a wasp should be 'strung up alive by a meat hook though the back of their neck'. I have never seen a wasp carrier. Barry
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20-02-15, 11:14
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There is still a Wasp carrier in the Dutch Army collection , it was for a while on display in the Bevrijdende vleugels museum . and they still have an instruction wasp set up.
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20-02-15, 11:56
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Dutch Wasp
Any pictures?
I have been told there is one in Russian musuem Barry
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20-02-15, 13:09
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Canadian experimental design called the 'Barracuda' and featured the following photo (IWM-MH23173).
Clearly a converted 2pdr carrier. I heard wasps were used to destroy nazi concentration camps.
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20-02-15, 16:08
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I have seen phots of Buchenwald after the liberation with Canadian Army wasps in action.
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20-02-15, 17:06
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about 24 years ago I took my Tilly into a tyre shop to get the front wheels balanced. There was an old guy there who was some sort of part time janitor who got all excited because my Tilly was baring the markings of his old unit "5th Dorsets 43rd Wessex Div".
He told me that he was part of a flame thrower carrier crew, and that there were no heroics with his job as they stayed well behind the fighting front lines and had the most unenviable job of cremating dead Germans. They piled the body's up and doused them with the liquid before incinerating them with a flame. They also set light to houses through a door or window if they suspected any live Germans to be inside. Not nice I know. But all part of war I'm afraid. Ron
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