Maverick

Thanks Lee for the update.

Please donate if you can

As soon as Paypal get things back up and running I will let you all know.

Thank you for your time

Hi All,

First of all Thank you to Jack for allowing this to be posted.

I just want to say that Sean is a very good friend of mine and this is for real. He is a fellow collector and attends the War and Peace Show. What he is trying to achive is amazing and I hope we can all help him achive his target

If you want to know more please visit http://www.collettewebster.com which will tell you about Collette and what happened, you can also visit http://vimeo.com/search?q=seanandcollette which is a short programe about Sean and Collette and has already been shown on the BBC.

So far we have raised £1375 in 3 days, the Goal is 10,000.00.

I understand money is tight for everyone but If you can donate please go to http://www.gofundme.com/26vug0 or via paypal

Thank you for your time and I hope you can help.

Regards

Stuart

Yes its hard work but it makes it all worth while when you get good feedback from veterans and the public

Looking forward to it already, can't wait

Part of Stuarts impressive kit on the road..

 

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Thanks for posting, that must of been the Charity event at the British Queen Public House ???

Think I got some funny looks from other road users

I suspect nearly all the shells are repro, real ones are bloomin' heavy..... The M110 chemical certainly are because they have M107 driving bands, the real M110 band is much wider.

 

Nice collection of stuff Stuart!

Actually two of the pallets have real rounds on and two dont. The same goes for in and around the trailer, about half and half. My bad back will confirm this as like you say the real ones are bloomin' heavy and I set them up every day and put them away every night. I also have more inert ones at home so I can mix and match.

It was a triring job, the Iraqi Fire Brigade had a recovered stockpile of 155mm and 120mm shells at their Barracks in Al Amarah town. We were sent to collect them and a couple of dozen AK47s/74s. The Aks were nowhere to be found (Funny thing) but in the courtyard, strewn everywhere, were the shells. We started to load a few into a Warrior and then I noticed the weight of one appeared to shift and when i rocked it (Yes it was heavy) I could feal a liquid sloshing around. We checked all the shells and seperated into piles. Pretty much all the 120mm Grey rounds sloshed, none of the 120mm Green rounds sloshed and neither did the 155mm. So, we tried to determine what the Grey 120mm shells were but as the markings had all gone, we couldn't be sure. The decision was made that if they were suspect (We were begining to think they were chemical shells) we would leave them, come up with a plan of action, and return for them.

 

In total there were 120 155mm HE shells and 200 120mm Shells of HE and unknown contents, we returned to base and the RLC IED Officer that shared the 'House' with us did some research and came back with an idea that they may be Phos shells and that the extreme heat had caused them to liquidise. He suggested that we should return in the early hours of the morning and see if they still sloshed, and that if they didn't, the early morning would also make it easier on the troops as 2 people had already gone down with heat exhaustion. We returned at 4 a.m. with 4 Warriors and managed to remove about 1/2 the shells (The Warriors were full). We used the 155 HE to boost the detonation on what was confirmed as being 120mm shells (Alot of relieved people) and the resulting day break dem was probably the best I've witnessed.

 

 

Now thats sounds like a lot of hard work especially with the heat as well. I expect the idea of moving Chemical shells around in the back of a warrior upset the crew even more than HE rounds. Your braver then me, I'll stick to my inert rounds thanks.

I'll check the youtube link out

Regards

The ones marked 'Gas' do not seem to be as heavy as the others. The other shells look like they are weighing down the pallets that they are standing on, where as the Gas shells don't seem to be pushing the pallet in to the ground.

 

Am I correct?

Your close, lets say your half correct

Seeing those 155mm HE shells takes me back to Iraq and trying squeeze 120 of them into Warriors, the crew really, really wern't to happy about it!

Doesn't sound like my kind of fun either

wow, just the shells on there own must have taken quite some time to collect.

i was lucky really, A contact I have found 14 of them in Belguim, then some were brought at military fairs over time. I'll let you into a little secret, not all of them are real, i had some made out of fibreglass, I bet you cant tell which ones

Yes - I think my OT was based just down the way from you at W&P this year! It was opposite the Red ball group and I think you were a little way up nearer the bridge end of the arena exit way.

Yes that sounds about right, think you did a few mock battles on your pitch and if i remember there was alot of poking around under the engine cover on the OT on one of the days ???

Impressive as always!

 

You should post some pictures of the whole lot hooked up to your truck, equally impressive

I did plan on doing that at War and Peace 2012 but the mud and poor weather put a stop to that.

Will try again

I remember this display - it was impressive!! Never realized it one of HMVF's own responsible for it though. Congratulations!! :-D

You never know who's lurking around at the shows, I expect we passed each other a few times at War and Peace

Must be my old steam powered computer as its all ok on this one thats only a year old.

thanks for your help guys

wow what a collection and display great pics like how those guys stand so still for the pictures ! :cheesy:

Thank you all for the kind words.

I did ask my friends to do it if i payed them in Beer, the trouble is they would drink too much beer and fall over

Hi All,

Over the years I expect you have all seen my Wanted Adverts for 155mm Howitzer items as well as general Artillery equipment? Well I thought it was time for you to see what I do with all the stuff I collect.

Please see below some photos from my Vietnam Artillery Display held at the 2012 War and Peace Show. This years display was dedicated to Mr Larry tesh of The 1/92nd Field Artillery who served during the Vietnam War.

The unit sign in the photos is copied from one of his orignal photographs taken at Fort Bragg, North Carolina the year before he was deployed to Vietnam.

I hope you enjoy them

As always I'm still on the look out for anything related to the US 155mm Howitzer to make my displays bigger and better. These items can be tools, canvas items, equipment, cleaning brushes etc etc.

Do any of our members know any Artillery dealers or have items for sale themselves ??? They can be from WW2 , Korea and Vietnam

Thank you

Ok Thanks, I'll try another computer, it only happens on the preview page but goes black when you click submit. its also on the heading Reply to Thread and the bit on the front page about this month donations, posting permissions etc. I'll see what the other computer comes up with.

Thanks

Thats great thank you for the confirmation. Is there anyway of changing this light green writing as its hard to read ???

test message due to unable to see text in preview window as it a rubbish green colour and hard to read, can this be changed ???

Hi,

Can someone tell me the measurements for the WW2 German front Mudguard plate and the rear number plates on a Motorcycle and sidecar please.

Thank you

Veterans of the 129th AHC are re-united with a UK owned Huey 509 that flew with their unit from July 72 until October 73.

Glad I could be of service

Can someone ID this canvas cover ????

Thanks

Yes it was a really good show and to be honest the actual show still isnt to bad, the organisers wife is the biggest problem, i don't know a single MV owner who hasnt fallen out with her, she makes a real habbit of upseting everyone. A real shame as I live only 3 miles away from it, Ive stopped going now