More vacation photos form my trip to London back in July.Starting out with a pair of 15"/42 Mark 1 naval guns, from the Revenge-class battleship HMS Ramilies and the Roberts-class monitor HMS Roberts.
A bit of mid-19th century Berlin architecture.
Spitfire, going by the gun ports I'm guessing a pretty early (ie machinegun-only) one.
Harrier GR9
No real effort will be put into sorting the photos into a more logical order than they were taken in, I have to put that effort into not coughing up my lungs at the moment.
>>65517756yeah, it's a Mk. 1a.wonder why they painted over the machine guns.
Ohka
V2, quite a bit bigger than the V1.
British 13-pounder gun, used by L-battery of the Royal Horse Artillery during the battle of Néry on the 1st of September 1914. The end result for L-battery there being three VC and a quarter killed.
T34-85
WW1 stuff, first out a Russian artillery officer's uniform.
Austrian uniform of the 8th lancers regiment, I'm assuming an early war affair.
German private of the 56th infantry regiment.
French 5th infantry regiment, 1914.
Leaving the WW1 exhibits for a while due to school group congestion.
Trying the other war instead for the time being.
US small arms in British service.
Early war armaments of the Local Defence Volunteers/Home Guard. Largely a bring-your-own-whatever affair.
A Morrison shelter, to keep you from getting crushed if the house suddenly collapsed for some Luftwaffe reason.
A German air-dropped magnetic mine. These were later adopted for use against cities, where they parachuted down and exploded on contact with the ground instead of burying itself a few feet into in before popping off. This meant more of the blast went off to the sides to much things up, instead of being directed back up at the uncaring stars.
I am monitoring this thread.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1m06BP7dNE
>>65517884a puppy girl cage, you say?
Limpet mine, for use against ships.>>65517892Well, make of it what use you will.
Italian tropical uniform.
Pistol carried by general Annibale Bergonzoli.
British tropical uniform.
Various land mines.
"Who touches dies"
German private of the 1st mountain division, and a Waffen-SS uniform in the background.
Romanian infantryman
Japanese infantryman.
Ships lost month-by-month to the Gemran u-boots, with each model signifying five of them. As we can see things improved a bit some months into 1943.
Really cool OP. What was your favorite attraction? The trenches?
What may be a projectile form a Hedgehog anti-sub system.>>65517930Probably the big WW1 mortar (it's a big chonker) or the Polaris control unit (doomsday in a box).
USMC camouflage shirt, first sued at Tarawa.
From the battle of Okinawa.
Chaff, first used in 1943. It had been ready for some time before that, but since it wouldn't be overly hard for the Germans to copy it deployment had been delayed until British radars had figured out how to look past it.
British incendiary bomb. By and large a thermite flare.
>>65517947Well, apparently I've run into the post-deletion limit...
>>65517949A common load out was a huge HE bomb that was dropped first, to blown the roof tiles off, and then many thousands of these falling into the exposed attics.
Men för i helfvete.
Interesting stuff, OP.
USSR M30 122mm howitzer
USSR uniforms, on the left a winter one with its characteristic vatnik jacket.
Nebelwerfer MRLS, 21cm neberlwerfer 42 I think.While these "fog mortars" were originally meant to deliver smoke, the large internal volume of these thin-walled rockets meant they could also deliver a lot of HE or incendiary compound. Mortars, including these kinda-mortar-rocket-launchers accounted for about 75% of the British losses in Normandy.
V-1
M4A4
Monty's staff car.
Clarkair CA1 Bulldozer
>>65517877Sad that we missed the timeline where the Brits raised yari ashigaru to combat the germans.
Mitsubishi A6M, recovered from Taroa
A bit of a Lancaster.
>>65518042Well, the Royal Armoury up in Leeds should still have had a good supply of pots and pikes had Sealion made it across while the Royal Navy had their afternoon tea...
8,8cm flak 36.
German G7e/T3 electric torpedo.
Air raid shelter air filtration system. Electrically driven, with a gas generator as backup, and the "exercise bike" for backup to the backup.
>>65518071No honk.
And back to WW1 with some "aromatic" shells.
Early gas masks.These apparently worked ok-ish against their specific target substances. The occasional chemical burn from the highly reactive substances they've been soaked in, well, preferable to the alternatives mentioned on the sign in the lower left.
Souvenirs from Somme.
The big honking mortar previously mentioned.
>>65518093Gas! GAS! Quick, boys!—An ecstasy of fumblingFitting the clumsy helmets just in time,But someone still was yelling out and stumblingAnd flound’ring like a man in fire or lime.—Dim through the misty panes and thick green light,As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.In all my dreams before my helpless sight,He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qB4cdRgIcB8
>>65518113https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3dFpQzu54w
>>65518113>>65518122https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atuFSv2bLa8&list=RDatuFSv2bLa8&start_radio=1
>>65518132As long as it smells of petrol instead of wet hay... (Burnt rubber might be a questionable one, but IIRC that was a later development.)
Mind the framing... It seems I do have issues with not having the entire EVF screen in view at once.
Rifle grenades, one for a cup launcher and the other with a rod to insert into the barrel.
And here's the photo I was thinking of when I wrote >>65518160
Late war uniforms. US private, Canadian warrant officer, French warrant officer.
MG 08/15
French 75mm quick-firing gun. This specific one having been sued by the 61st field artillery regiment on the Marne and around Ypres.
Minenwerfer
5.5"naval gun off of the HMS Chester. A German shell wiped out the entire gun crew save one, who stayed on his post awaiting orders, and ended up dying in hospital three days later...
Little Boy replica.
Hand cranked air raid siren, cold war era.
Ferret Scout Car, used on Cyprus.
With all the hubbub there used to be about Saddams chemical weapons the Royal navy had to at least pretend to do something about it during their patrols in the area. The solution was this sealed gimp box that could be placed, into which one operator was then stuffed to handle all the chemical detection equipment it came with. I'm not sure Peter Dinklage has room to stand upright inside it.
>>65518348>that could be placed...on the deck of your ship of choice.
Rheinmetall RH-202 20mm AA-gun, used by Argentina in the early eighties.
Armoured car, presumably used by British troops in North Ireland. A sign nearby makes note of how difficult it was for troops trained for open warfare to handle such patrols, something I note may be a good thing if you're hoping for gratuitous violence, excessive use of force, and an overall brutalisation of your men.
Control panel form the HMS Renown, showing the captain the status of the submarine's 16 Polaris missiles, and by extension if the world at large has gone to hell in a handbasket.
And that's the lot. Archive for those who so wish: https://www.mediafire.com/file/9y7ouzrjmt8wa26/England_-_Imperial_War_Museum.zip/file
>>65517749>mid-19th century BerlinhehGreat shots, by the way. Thank-you.
>>65518609Oh bloody... yep, this dump was indeed brought to you all by whatever cold/covid/flu it is that kept me home from work today, and boy does it show.
>>65518352>herpes powder
bless you, anon
>>65518616No problem. I've just come down with a touch of a cold, myself. You're doing better than me, a mug of Neo-Citran knocks me for a loop that I usually stay offline so I don't embarass myself. :^)Does that museum have any of the early radar equipment? Radio gear, etc? Y-Station paraphanelia? I suppose that'd prob be at the Bletchley Park Museum.
I was greatly disappointed in that museum. I figured with it being the flagship military museum of a empire that spanned the world and existed for hundreds of years, and is meme das stealing everything that isn’t nailed down to stick in a museum, it’d have more, older artifacts. Instead it’s the usual WW1, WW2, a little Cold War, the Holocaust, and a little GWOT.Fucking lame.
>>65518676>Does that museum have any of the early radar equipment? Radio gear, etc? Y-Station paraphanelia?None that I can remember, and I didn't end up photographing any either, which further suggests its absence.
beautiful pictures OP, you have a real knack for photographyas for the planes ive always wondered how much modifications get done on them so they can be held up by the wires
On a largely unrelated to most things note, this thread also means we're now through half of the museums I visited during this trip.>>65518736>you have a real knack for photographyNice to hear that twenty years of practice and a decidedly not cheap camera hasn't been for nothing.>as for the planes ive always wondered how much modifications get done on them so they can be held up by the wiresI suspect many aircraft have lifting points built into them so they can be craned around for maintenance, shipping, and the like.
>>65518718Aww that's disappointing. Oh well. I've heard the archives there are quite extensive.Are you the same anon that did the HMS Belfast photo thread here a while ago? Alll great stuff. Anyways, some tea and toast w/ honey and enjoy your night and rest easy. Thanks, man.
>>65518713Despite the name of this place I guess the "Imperial" side of things mostly ended up in the British Museum.>>65518904>Are you the same anon that did the HMS Belfast photo thread here a while ago?Yep, also the Bevington and the British Museum threads before that.
>>65519029I identified all of the electronic equipment that were in your pix of the Belfast and tried to post a list but 4chan thought I was spamming so I abandoned the attempt.>also the Bevington and the British Museum threads before that.Well now i'm going to go look thru the desuarchive for them. Thanks for the heads up.
>>65518713Yeah I feel the same. Was there last week and left disappointed. Also another of those modern musea where they tell a story instead of just showing things.
actual topic on /k/
>>65520039It is indeed. These threads are always good.
>>65519074>Well now i'm going to go look thru the desuarchive for them. Thanks for the heads up.Should the threads be hard to find you can at least get the picture archives from https://www.mediafire.com/folder/4v4c0uwexuyo7/My+Photographs
>>65520260Is that the tower of London and Tower Bridge? What ship is that?
>>65521223HMS Belfast
