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Norwegian Royal Navy's Women's Corps 1942-1945


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Hello. Had to share these pictures with you.

 

Ben74

 

Motif: Navy's Women's Corps 1942-1945 Course 2-1942 Weapon Parade - Thompson .45 MP Colt -Pistolcal .45.11,25 cm

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Motif: Marine Women's Corps 1942-1945 Liverpool 1943. Training with Thompson .45 machine gun Pictured persons: From left: 1.Gretha Holtedal.2: Mrs.Hansen

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Motif: The Navy Women's Corps 1942-1945. Training training course - 1945 Thompson MP cal.

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Motif: Navy's Women's Corps 1942-1945 Course 2-1945 Weapon training with Thompson machine gun cal. 45 M / 1928

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Motif: Marine Women's Corps 1942-1945 Practice shooting with Thompson MP cal. 45

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One more from Norway WWII.

 

BEN74

 

ThIs MODEL OF 1928 NO.S-119291 followed Claus Helberg at the heavy water action in 1944. The gun has been camouflaged by white paint, traces of this are visible.

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Ben 74,

Nice photos, and like Andrew said, I have not seen them before, thanks for sharing.

 

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Richard

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Is the white strap on the one camouflaged by white paint British?

Believe its marked M.W.å S.F. 1942 + a cross?

 

BEN74

I am not sure about the manufacturer, but yes the sling is British, or Commonwealth pattern.

 

Richard

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Probably sacrilege, but I dig the winter camouflage paint. . .

 

Something I have seen a lot of soldiers doing in the 1980's in Chad, for sand camo; not with Thompsons though, but with AKs.

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The second photo shows a date of 1943 in Liverpool - which I would assume is the major port city of Liverpool in the UK. The guns appear to have retained the sling swivels

 

in the factory position, rather than being moved to the British preference. These must have been guns that Norway ordered and paid for?

 

I saw a documentary on the History Chanel the other day about the raid on the heavy water plant and apparently a Thompson was deliberately left behind as a calling card. Perhaps it was meant to show the raid was a military one to try and reduce reprisals on the local population.

 

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AlanD

Sydney

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The guns at first appear to be American, all of them. But, judging from the bright barrels visible through the ejection ports on what seem to be M1911s, we may be looking at British contract Argentine Ballester Molina .45s. Several thousand were produced and delivered in 1942.

 

I don't see a white sling, or any slings at all. This appears to have been a photo op, not live shooting. Missing are the things associated with shooting. There are no ammo boxes, range personnel, sand bags, targets, etc. We don't stand shoulder to shoulder when firing automatic weapons, unless we want to get peppered with ejected cases. The guns, all of them, look fresh out of the crate.

 

Great images! Thanks for posting.

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Hi TSMGguy. The hand guns can be Norvegian M1914 Kongsberg Colts. The Navy had lots of them, do not know if they got some of them with them on the ships that seiled for the UK in 1940. The last blury picture is live shooting according to the text.

Pictures is one M1912 only 95 made and a m1914 32000 made. 1916-1947.

 

 

BEN74.

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