NEW THIS WEEK – MONDAY 9 AUGUST 2010
Hi there and welcome to what’s new on Miliblog this week.
Firstly we have the 65th anniversary of VJ Day on August 15th, the final end of the Second World War. Often overshadowed by events in Europe, finally the troops of the 14th Army, or the Forgotten Fourtheenth as they were called, could all finally head back home after an often nasty war. Fighting not only a determined enemy but also the hot and steamy jungle along with disease and illness too. We raise our glasses to you all.
So a little different this week in that we have some military vehicles in post war service in civilian life. Starting off is an interesting Albion 10Ton Cargo, with two sample pictures. One in just out of service condition, while the other is a modified one used by Chipperfields Circus in red and pale blue colours. Wonder where they are now ?!!!!!
Albion WD-HD 23N 10ton 6x4 Cargo (Q 859 FAD)
Albion WD-HD 23N 10Ton 6x4 Cargo (UBW 478 G)
Following on we have a nice little Bedford MWD 15cwt in RAF colours, which I’m sure I’ve seen at many shows over the years.
Bedford MWD 15cwt GS (YMR 58)
Miliblog is interested in all military vehicles, from all countries and all ages. So we next bring you two photos of the the new MAN trucks that have entered service with the British Army, one four wheeler and the other an eight wheeler.
MAN 6 Ton 4x4 Cargo (HK 50 AB)
MAN 9 Ton 8x6 Cargo (HA 82 AB)
And finally, a photo for our naval enthusiasts, in the shape of the Royal Navy’s latest Type 45 Destroyer, which looks a pretty streamline and fast craft.
HMS Daring, Type 45 Destroyer (D-32)
So we’ll have another look in our pending box and see what we can find you for next week !
Cheerio !
Simon
From our emails, especially from our fellow enthusiasts in Germany, we read that the original photos in our Eastern Front Collection are as popular as ever. So this week we have scanned and loaded on a further batch of photos. As usual, we’ve included a few samples to tempt you further to visit the Collection.
Eastern Front Colelction No 1409
We start with a nice photo of a Panzer 3 tank just climbing up a hill; nice one for our modellers !
Eastern Front Collection No 1411
Well polished boots for this medal presentation, with others in the background waiting their turn
Eastern Front Collection No 1432
Nice photo of a Demag half track towing a Pak43 anti-tank gun
Eastern Front Collection No 1433
German troops in a slit trench with an MG-42 machine gun. Just look at the chicken wire on the two helmets, which was a cheap and effective way to add camouflage by just weaving leaves and small branches through the wire.
Eastern Front Collection No 1439
A lovely photo of a simple lightweight pontoon bridge. Suggestion for a model diorama with a few vehicles and horse and wagons. Maybe a future IPMS (International Plastic Modellers Society) or MAFVA (Miniature Armoured Fighting Vehicle Association) competition winner ?!!!!
So my friends, back to the scanner until next week !
Cheerio !
Simon
NEW THIS WEEK – MONDAY 26 JULY 2010
Hi and welcome to this weeks newsletter. Well we are back from the seaside after a nice holiday in Devon in the South of England and ready to add some more photos to our Eastern Front Collection. So without any more fuss, we’ll launch into this week’s samples of our additions.
Eastern Front Collection No 1361
Another example of just how much the German army was fully mechanised !
Eastern Front Collection No 1368
This photo just illustrates the power of German tank weaponery, with the turret of this Soviet tank just blown off the hull and into the air.
Eastern Front Collection No 1370
Soviet refugees heading away from the fighting.
Eastern Front Collection No 1381
A nice shot of a VW Type 82 Kubelwagen, Germany’s answer to the US Jeep, with a BMW R75 motorcycle.
Eastern Front Collection No 1393
Home from home in this deep German dug out, taken in the wintertime looking at the amount of warm clothing the soldiers are wearing.
So I hope you enjoy visiting the collection along with all the other types of photos we have for you on Miliblog.
So until next week……
Cheerio !
Simon
NEW THIS WEEK – MONDAY 19 JULY 2010
Wecome once again to you all !
After featuring the landing craft hards at Brixham last week, this week we’re just down the coast at Slapton Sands and visiting it’s rare Sherman swimming tank. We have a write up on Slapton and the Sherman in our new Then & Now section, so we’ll just include a flavour to tempt you to visit it.
In the build up to the D-Day Landings, training and more training was needed to ensure the operation was to be a success. What better than to find a beach that was copy of one of the landing beaches itself. In 1943, Slapton Sands beach in South Devon had been identified by the planners as being a relpica of Utah Beach.
Slapton Sands, July 2010
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NEW THIS WEEK – MONDAY 12 JULY 2010
Hi and welcome to what’s new this week. Well Miliblog have been on holiday this week down to South Devon in England, to the beautiful town of Dartmouth. Located on the river Dart and only a few hundred meters from the open sea, during WW2 it had a large repair yard set up by the US Navy to get loads of landing craft ready for the D-Day landings. East of Dartmouth are the seaside towns of Torquay, Paignton and Brixham, all famous in D-Day history as embarkation ports for US troops heading off to Normandy. There’s one famous photo featured in most books of the D-Day landings of some US Army vehicles driving down to the hards to embark onto the landing craft. We wanted to find this location and see if anything is still left. Success ! Below are comparable photos along with a few additional photos of the road down and the hard itself. Doesn’t seem to have changed much, does it ? Just imagine how these GI’s were feeling as they drove down this road. Oh, I forgot to mention where it was… Brixham !
Brixham Hard June 1944
Brixham Yard July 2010
Brixham Hard, the road down, July 2010
Brixham Hard, close up, July 2010
Next week we’ll feature Slapton Sands and some photos of a nice peaceful beach which was a lot different over 60 years ago ! Until then have a great week ahead !
Cheerio !
Simon
NEW THIS WEEK – MONDAY 5 JULY 2010
Welcome to what’s new on Miliblog this week which is short yet very interesting. The question we’re asking this week is what happens to our old military vehicles after we’ve sold them ? We often sell them to fellow collectors in the same area or even the same military vehicle club and so often see our old pride and joy at shows over the years. However sometimes they just seem to disappear off the scene altogether !
This week were contacted by a good friend in the United Arab Emerites (UAR) with a fantastic story. He came across a UAR national who is a huge Land Rover fan and has a collection of early 1950′s Landies. It appears his uncle, also a huge Land Rover fan, bought two old Bedford’s in the UK last year, an RL Green Goddess and a lovely QLD 3Tonner GS. Our friend Ben Vaux saw the same Bedford on Miliblog in a photos taken some time ago, and contacted us.
He said he’d had the honour of driving the Bedford across the desert at 30 degrees heat to a classic car show where it won oldest vehicle at the show.
Ben’s kindly sent us a photo and given us permission to share it with you all. We’ve also added below the photo of the same QLD from Miliblog taken in 1987 at, I think, the D-Day Show on Southsea Common in Portsmouth, for you to compare.
Bedford QLD 3Ton GS (2463 RU) In the Gulf 2010
Bedford QLD 3Ton GS (2463 RU) In 1987
So short and sweet !
Have a great week and we’ll see you soon !!!
Cheerio !
Simon
NEW THIS WEEK – MONDAY 28 JUNE 2010
Hi there and welcome to what’s new on miliblog this week. Well after three shows last week it was time once again to trawl through the collection of German WW2 photographs to add some more to our Eastern Front Collection. From our email-bag, these photos are very popular with you all, so I hope you will enjoy this week’s additions of which we feature five samples below.
We kick off with a column of German infantryman marching along a dusty road in the height of Summer. Following on is an unusual photo featuring two soldiers standing guard over a mermoral to their comrades lost in action. Next we have some more marching soldiers, but this time Soviet prisoners of war and marching off the other way into captivity.
Next photo is a chiily one in the snow with a sergeant holding up a snow stick. And finally, we have an unusual one in the form of a crashed Soviet Polikarpov I-16 fighter plane, so neatly crashing without even knocking over any of the fences.
So we’ll return to the scanner and the phot box and see what we can bring you next week.
Cheerio !
Simon
Eastern Front Colection No 1341
Eastern Front Collection No 1345
Eastern Front Collection No 1348
Eastern Front Collection No 1352
Eastern Front Collection No 1359
NEW THIS WEEK – MONDAY 21 JUNE 2010
Hi and welcome to this week’s what’s new on Miliblog. Well it’s been a busy week with three separate shows over the weekend. We started off with a nice drive out into the Worcestershire countryside for the Wartime in The Vale Show at Evesham on Saturday. We’ve a full report with over 150 photos under our Show Report section. However I couldn’t resist adding a before and after photo from our collection of a vehicle we saw at the show !!! Even the markings are the same on the front mudguard.
Austin K5 3Ton GS (KFF 980) in the 1990s
Austin K5 3Ton GS (KFF 980) Under Preservation 2010
The next day we scooted over to Halfpenny Green Airport, near Stourbridge for the 100 Years of Wolverhampton’s Airports Show. This was an event to celebrate the 100 years to the day since the first flight from a Wolverhampton Airport, which occurred on 27 June 1910. A show of military vehicles had been advertised, but by the time we arrived, they’d all left. Something to do with World Cup football match between England and Germany I believe, Still it was nice to have a walk around a wartime airfield complete with it’s original wartime control tower. Years ago, in the 1970′s, the airfield used to hold an annual air show that was a national event and featured the Falcons, the British Parachute Regiment display team, displays of Spitfires and Hurricanes and I believe the Red Arrows too in their Folland Gnat aircraft. Below is a photo of the control tower.
Halfpenny Green Airfield Control Tower
Also at the event was a lovely percival Prentice Trainer, that I think was owned by Air Atlantique and based at Coventry Airport, which is pictured below.
Percival P40 Prentice T1 Trainer (VR-259)
Finally after enjoying the sunshine we headed off to Himley Park near Dudley for the British Armed Forces Day. Here we saw a selection of familiar vehicles seen at other shows across the Midlands. Below is Tony Whitehead’s superb Austin 10hp Light Utility. Sorry Tony I think you were having a quick sleep as we went by and we didn’t like to disturb you for a chat !!! Perhaps next time.
Austin 10hp Light Utility (ORE 89)
So it was back home for a well deserved cup of tea and check out the photos we’d taken over the weekend.
Have a great week and we’ll see you soon !
Cheerio !
Simon
NEW THIS WEEK – MONDAY 14 JUNE 2010
Hi once again to you all. On Miliblog this week we feature some more photos loaded onto our Eastern Front Collection. We’ve received a number of emails from you saying how much you’re enjoying looking at the Collection, especially from visitors from Germany, so below are five more samples of photos added this week.
First we start with a cold looking infantryman on guard duty. Next illustrates that the German army wasn’t as fully mechanised as many think. These poor horses must have suffered in the apauling winter conditions, with one of collapsing under the strain. Another illustration of the conditions on the battlefield where the rain and the earth roads led to thick sticky mud that caused all sorts of problems. And here’s another photo of a horse drawn column of supply wagons, stuck down in the mud and having to be pushed out.
Finally we have a battleweary German soldier with what looks like a summer uniform. Maybe one of you out there that is more knowledgeable on uniforms can help. Is that a torch strapped onto their shoulder ?
So have a great week and we’ll be back soon with some more exciting items on Miliblog.
Cheerio !
Simon
Eastern Front Collection No 1282
Eastern Front Collection No 1301
Eastern Front Collection No 1303
Eastern Front Collection No 1328
Eastern Front Collection No 1338
NEW THIS WEEK – MONDAY 7 JUNE 2010
Hi and welcome to everyone across the world. What a fantastic month May has been for Miliblog, with over 10,250 visitors to our little website from all over the globe. Between you, we had over 730,000 hits looking at all the items we have on Miliblog. So all I can say is a big THANK YOU to you all.
We often are emailed from many of you asking if we know where you can find a certain vehicle or a spare part. Some have asked if they can feature their vehicle for sale. Well now you all can !
A new feature on miliblog is a classified section, where for free, no charge, you can upload a photo of your vehicle for sale and a brief discription of it as well. However for £5 you can place an advert and load upto 10 photosof your item that will be there for 3 months.
If you’re organising an event, whether it a 1940′s event or military vehicle show, then please list your event for all similar minded enthusiasts to find. Again you can even load photos to go with the advert.
What about if you have a club or museum ? Well we can cater for you as well, with a special page dedicated to all different clubs and associations from all over the world.
Lastly, if you offer any type of service whatsoever to the military sectors from vehicles, uniforms, vehicle parts and renovations to models and books on military items, then we’d love to feature you here on Miliblog.
So down to this week’s features, and so we’re featuring some more of our collection from our Eastern Front. It’s pretty hot here in the UK, but just look how cold it is in some of the photos. We start with a nice photo of three Panzer crew members, very useful for our uniform collectors and modellers. Following on is a nice Stug 3 (Sturmgeschutz) Self Propelled Gun, based on a Panzer 2 chassis, here seen at speed on a well used snowy road. Another snowy and cold photo next with some some shivering German infantrymen aboard what looks like a Panzer 3 tank, judging by the height of the vehicle.
Next we have a pair of Panzer 2 tanks in a more warmer time on the battlefield, with a nice little Mercedes light truck parked up or probably getting out of the way of these speeding tanks. Finally we have a German infantryman ready to defend his post with his Kar 98k rifle and some ‘potato masher’ grenades.
So we say have a good week and continue enjoying visiting and looking at all the different items we have for you on Miliblog. And don’t forget, if you want to sell your military vehicle, why not pop it onto our classifieds section, after all it won’t cost you a penny or a cent !
Cheerio !
Simon
Eastern Front Collection No 1231
Eastern Front Collection No 1260
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Eastern Front Collection No 1277
Eastern Front Collection No 1280
