You need to have a read through this lot

[gordon]

http://sill-www.army.mil/FAMAG/archives.htm

The US Field Artillery Magazine archive. A quick scroll through the pdf's of 1940 gives some contemporary accounts of the fall of France and Dunkirk, plus coverage of German articles about the 40-41 period.

Nothing specifically Canadian or Commonwealth, but loads and loads of background info, contemporary pics, and a great explanation of the US decisions on truck types in 1939 and 1940.

If you find anything of real interest cut and paste the url here;


DUNKIRK ARTICLE

Of course it had to be an Australian, Dave Robinson, that pointed me at it.

Gordon

[Bill Murray]

Thank you very much for the link, Gordon.

Not too good for photos up till the 1940 era but a lot of good reading materiel.

I won't link it here but I was fascinated to follow the story of the motorization of the Field Artillery as it related to the requirement for them to give up their beloved horses.

I followed the story through several issues from 1930 on and it was truly a bit of a sad story.

There is hopefully a site that has posted to the net the equivelant for the Cavalry. "Cavalry Journal" perhaps. I will do a Google search to see if anything comes up. That should also be a fascinating story, converting from horses to Jeeps and tanks.

Bill

[Phil Waterman]

Gordon thanks for posting this link, quick browsing shows that there is a lot of information here with a lot of uncommon photos. I edit our local HMV newsletter and finds like this are a welcome source of obscure information.

Well a little more looking and there is interesting CMP related information see page 33 of http://sill-www.army.mil/FAMAG/1943/...LL_EDITION.pdf

[Phil Waterman]

There are even a number of interesting photos, though I can save them to my computer they will not post keep getting the photo to large message even when the picture is resized down to 500x500

[Phil Waterman]

Well it looks like at least every other issue has something of interest to MLU readers. Example http://sill-www.army.mil/FAMAG/1943/...LL_EDITION.pdf has an article on British 6-pounders.

Or article on Canada's Fort Sill page 44 http://sill-www.army.mil/FAMAG/1943/...LL_EDITION.pdf

Found problem on posting pictures from this site they save as BMPs and you have to convert to JPG to post.

[John McGillivray]

In this article there are references to the British 3.7in AA gun being used in the anti-tank role like the German 8.8cm Flak gun.

http://sill-www.army.mil/FAMAG/1943/...AGES_25_27.pdf

[cletrac (RIP)]

Here's a unique way to float your truck across a river. This looks like a Dodge command car but the article has another picture with a 1 1/2 ton truck.
Phil, I just went to import pdf image in Photoshop and picked the one I wanted. It opened as a jpg file and I resized it. Were you using a screen capture to get the image?

[Phil Waterman]

Hi All

The Field Artillery Journal Magazine site seems to either be down or have been taken down. Any of you computer experts able to figure out if is gone, gone or just having a server problem.

Hope that it comes back a lot of interesting information.

[cletrac (RIP)]

I've been downloading most of the pre 1946 files and the server seems to go down every now and then but it's usually going again after a few hours. There's a lot of interesting info there.

[Col Tigwell]

If I recall corectly, the Australian army had a system for floating Landrovers similair to the previous photos.

If a I see big tarp in nthe back of Phoenix's cars I will then knopw it was true.

Regards

Col