Panzermotorrad PzMd.1 or ‘Kugelpanzer’

NARSES2 · August 10, 2023, 05:58:28 AM

Quote from: zenrat on August 10, 2023, 03:42:23 AMThey could double as coffins to ship the bodies of the dead back home.

They didn't as many a cemetary I've visited can testify to $:-\$ but I know where your coming from.

NARSES2 · August 10, 2023, 05:59:48 AM

Quote from: frank2056 on August 09, 2023, 11:08:36 AM
Quote from: NARSES2 on August 09, 2023, 05:45:30 AMWhat I find interesting about it is that a US magazine is showing what appears to be British troops in 1914/15 uniforms crossing relatively open ground. Do we know when that edition was published ?

I was wrong; it's actually from the November 1915 issue (full issue)

Archive.org has copies of many of the old Popular Mechanics

If you just want to browse the covers, you can also look here.

Thankyou, makes it much more understandable.

Wardukw · August 10, 2023, 12:17:39 PM

Quote from: NARSES2 on August 10, 2023, 05:58:28 AM
Quote from: zenrat on August 10, 2023, 03:42:23 AMThey could double as coffins to ship the bodies of the dead back home.

They didn't as many a cemetary I've visited can testify to $:-\$ but I know where your coming from.

Even to this day the poor buggers are still being found ..battlefield archeologists still find the dead and finally they get a proper burials.

NARSES2 · August 11, 2023, 05:55:10 AM

Quote from: Wardukw on August 10, 2023, 12:17:39 PM
Quote from: NARSES2 on August 10, 2023, 05:58:28 AM
Quote from: zenrat on August 10, 2023, 03:42:23 AMThey could double as coffins to ship the bodies of the dead back home.

They didn't as many a cemetary I've visited can testify to $:-\$ but I know where your coming from.
Even to this day the poor buggers are still being found ..battlefield archeologists still find the dead and finally they get a proper burials.

Very much so, and the local fireman still play the Last Post every night at the Menin Gate, and it's still well attended every night.