private mw Posted April 14, 2011 Share Posted April 14, 2011 time team the sommes secret weapon channel 4 :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hen Hunter Posted April 14, 2011 Share Posted April 14, 2011 Well reminded !! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ford 369 Posted April 15, 2011 Share Posted April 15, 2011 better than some of thier recent efforts Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steveo578 Posted April 15, 2011 Share Posted April 15, 2011 Yes very good ,but lacked historical context, the original Flammenwerfer -a similarily large unwieldly contraption -fired in a high ark trench to trench like a minenwerfer, only worked if the trenches were under 50metres apart, its viablity as weapon was lost as soon as the opposition realised that allowing a sap to be run within the F.T. range could not be permited -similarly the gallery flame thrower could only be used in specific circumstances when ground conditions, relatively dry-relatively un-shelled areas, permited it and the enemy were not counter mining. As to Tony Robsons liberal comment that post war the "dreadful weapon was outlawed" which post war? Vietnam? Soviet invasion of Afghanistan? -ex US back pack flame throwers were even captured during the 1969-99 northern Ireland toubles, not to mention Naplam and FAB weapons. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony B Posted April 15, 2011 Share Posted April 15, 2011 Leven's particular expertise did not go to waste. He joined the Petroleum Warfare Department in WW2. Amongst other things he worked on the Fougase. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antarmike Posted April 15, 2011 Share Posted April 15, 2011 (edited) spoilt by Time teams artificial three days for the dig, self imposed time limit. There is probably a lot more of it out there if there was serious intent to see how much actually remains and recover it, rather than trying to make exciting, will they/ won't they find anything before time is up T.V...... Edited April 16, 2011 by antarmike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony B Posted April 16, 2011 Share Posted April 16, 2011 They never did that lot in three days! The good thing Time Team do do is come up with the money. Though there is a lot of back room reports and conservation done. The on screen bit is the glossy tourist tat. Though anything that may encourage a genuine intrest in the period , we shouldn't really sniff at. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ford 369 Posted April 16, 2011 Share Posted April 16, 2011 what we saw was only the time team bit,wasnt there another group out there from England working with time team and so possibly carrying on afterwards? I certainly hope so Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mk3iain Posted April 16, 2011 Share Posted April 16, 2011 what we saw was only the time team bit,wasnt there another group out there from England working with time team and so possibly carrying on afterwards? I certainly hope so Close (ish)... Glasgow University! It would be interesting to see any reports from them! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony B Posted April 16, 2011 Share Posted April 16, 2011 The question now is do you raise the rest, or leave in situ with a good survey? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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