gpw42 Posted July 11, 2008 Share Posted July 11, 2008 Anyone out there know what this is, found under the layers of paint and on the original colour coat on my half track door?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick W Posted July 11, 2008 Share Posted July 11, 2008 Looks like a coconut or pineapple to me. Book on ebay at the moment, military signs and insignia. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony B Posted July 11, 2008 Share Posted July 11, 2008 Might be ex French Forign Legion. Do know they used a lot of ex US kit, can't be exact on the half tracks though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morris c8 fat Posted July 11, 2008 Share Posted July 11, 2008 Def French maybey artillery can you tell what number is in the center it may help Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
younggun Posted July 11, 2008 Share Posted July 11, 2008 just guessing but could it be a sign fot a grenade or a mortar round ? nick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony B Posted July 12, 2008 Share Posted July 12, 2008 trouble is a lot of peopele use similar, the US ammo boxes have something similar embossed. Any history on where she has been? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enigma Posted July 12, 2008 Share Posted July 12, 2008 French, what it means excactly I don't know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snapper Posted July 12, 2008 Share Posted July 12, 2008 French, if you are at the Hop Farm this weekend or so, keep an eye out for similar on White scout cars and anything else. I'm pretty sure the flaming grenade is an infantry formation sign - not Chasseurs - can't be overly strong on it - but probably motorised/mechanised in your case. Looks like an eight or a nine as the regimental or formation number. Could have been over painted a few times. M Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gpw42 Posted July 12, 2008 Author Share Posted July 12, 2008 Thanks for ideas, all the french ones I have seen, seem to be much narrower with the leaves/flames or whatever they are closer together and straighter. There are a few examples on GMC's in the book "GMC a universal truck" but they don't look quite so flamboyant? Doesn't look like I am going to get chance of trip to beltring, so please keep alook out and get some snaps if poss thanks all Tim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlienFTM Posted July 15, 2008 Share Posted July 15, 2008 I have a warm feeling about Tony B's Foreign Legion suggestion. Flaming grenades are very popular with them and like he says, they used a lot of cast-off US (and other) kit prior to the Day of the Jackal putsch that almost saw them disbanded entirely. See Simon Murray's seminal work: Legionnaire - nowadays it has a subtitle: Legionnaire: An Englishman in the French Foreign Legion, a masterpiece of FFL history. Indeed the only description of those events available to an official historian (who had access to the Legion archives) was to quote from Murray's book. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Murray Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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