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| Member | The pilots backpack Imagine you're been shot down but managed to crash land and get out of you're plane. Did pilots in ww2 had emergency packs? in case off landing/crashing on enemy territory? And what did got in it? I'm quessing: A (flare) gun Food and drink A flashlight and more usefull stuff. But you guys can tell me all about it, I'm sure about that. Greetings Arne
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| Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Munich
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| The tropical equipment for the 109 included a 98k Rifle mounted in the rear fuselage. I've seen a picture probably from a manual once. And I read about a russian pilot who always carried a PPSh when he took of. I expect many others did that that too. Some of these things were issued (maps of europe printed on silk scarfs for allied pilots for example), some were personal. A flare gun is always a good idea, but a revolver may not be so good. In a story about a Whirlwind pilot I read that many of them refused to take a gun with them. In case they were shot down they did not want to provoke a trigger happy (and probably nervous) enemy to kill them. Krabat |
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| Member | Krabat42 thank you for reactin so soon. Well I was doubting about the rifles and personal guns. greetings.
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| Senior Member | The British crews had foreign money, maps and water purification tablets if nothing else.
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| Member | So nothing more then that ? I know they were supposed to contact la resistance or the undergound movement but that they carried that little?
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| Senior Member | I don't know, I'm sure they would have carried more than that. Possibly a knife, a language handbook and fishing line (they would be reasonable suggestions for a survival pack)
__________________ "When you go home tomorrow, don't expect anyone to know what you have been through. Even if they did know, most people probably wouldn't care anyway. Some of you may get the medals you deserve, many more of you will not. But remember this, all of you are now members of the front-line club, and that is the most exclusive club in the world." - Lt. Col. Matthew Maer CO 1st Battalion, the Princess of Wale's Royal Regiment. Camp Abu Naji, Oct. 2004 |
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| Member | Hm indeed those are all logical things. If I've offended you with my previous post my apologies for that.
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| Senior Member | Of course you didn't offend me. It was a valid question, and you're right to think they did carry more than that because they probably did.
__________________ "When you go home tomorrow, don't expect anyone to know what you have been through. Even if they did know, most people probably wouldn't care anyway. Some of you may get the medals you deserve, many more of you will not. But remember this, all of you are now members of the front-line club, and that is the most exclusive club in the world." - Lt. Col. Matthew Maer CO 1st Battalion, the Princess of Wale's Royal Regiment. Camp Abu Naji, Oct. 2004 |
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| Member | Yeah well I'm kind of hoping to make a list off things. for different countries and then compare. I do hope it works. but sometimes I go in overdrive to get the answer
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| Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: niagara falls
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| Chocolate , amphetomines, |
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| Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Louisville, KY
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| Some of the German aircraft in North Africa also carried "drillings" a break-open three barrelled gun, usually two 16 gauge barrels and a rifle barrel underneath. I've seen pictures of Luftwaffe markings on them. Supposedly in case they went down in country loaded with wildlife........ Guns and Ammo Magazine did a write-up on them, back in the 1970s. They were, by no means, common issue, though. |
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| Member | hmm for shooting wild? or Tommies and yanks? Thanks for the extra info.
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| Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Munich
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| Another thought: If this stuff was issued, there must be regulations (in the military, regulations is everything). So why not ask the archives, for example of the RAF, Armee de'l Air etc.? |
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| Member | Can you do that from Belgium? I mean by mail off course.
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| | #15 |
| Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Munich
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| There's museums which you could ask. The RAF museum in Hendon for example. |
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