first film is of the Irish army firing the recovered browning the second is of the recovery dig at the spitfire crash site
June 28th, 2011. Johnny McNee leads a team to recover the remains of a Royal Air Force, Supermarine Spitfire Mk. II, which crashed in the hills of Moneydarragh, Inishowen during November 1941. With the help of the Irish Army, they recovered six Browning Machine guns, with one thousand bullets.this dig lasted for the whole weekend . The BBC was also there too. They were filming for a new program that will be on called Dig WWII. Dan Snow is the Historian on the show, and they will be all over Europe looking for old wrecks from WWII.
November 1941, Roland 'Bud' Wolfe crash landed in Inishowen, Co. Donegal. His plane's coolant overheated during a patrol mission just north of the Inishowen peninsula. Trying to return to RAF Eglinton, he had no choice but to bail out of his Spitfire, as he was losing altitude. His plane crashed in the heather covered area of Moneydarragh, Gleneely. He was arrested and sent to Curragh detention prison, where he spent two years. He was then released and went on to serve the 'Eagles' once again. His Spitfire was recovered on the 28, June 2011 by aviation historian Johnny McNee, along with others. The recovery was filmed, and will be made into a documentary for the BBC.
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@T0M65 - also note the higher rate of fire for that aircraft version of the gun than the usual M2 models in use even today.
Posted Aug-30-2012 Bygeekstud (333.72) 
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@geekstud Well, yeah. That's because they're .30-cal guns. More specifically, they're Browning .303 Mark IIs, firing .303 British. In other words, they're mechanically similar to the M1919 in .30-06.
12.7x99mm NATO machine guns with high rates of fire do exist, however. Like the M2-derived GAU-21 for use on aircraft (typically as a helicopter tail gun).
Posted Aug-30-2012 ByKrait (67.18) 
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@Krait - I can't believe I had that brain fart! I was thinking about the .50 guns in US aircraft also had higher rates of fire that the ground-based weapons, but those came at the end of the war and were used on F-86 Sabre jets.
Posted Aug-31-2012 Bygeekstud (333.72) 
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@T0M65 good stuff for sure,
they don't seem to be very gentle with this
Posted Sep-5-2012 ByFloating Turd (16.10) 
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A testament to it's quality.
Posted Aug-29-2012 BySp33dyD3m0n (321.50) 
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They don't build em like that in China
Posted Aug-29-2012 ByAiredale (2609.76) 
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Up here it would have been sold for scrap metal by the locals. And the guns used to rob a bank.
Posted Aug-30-2012 Bygerhardj (11.54) 
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Roland 'Bud' Wolfe January 12, 1918 - January 28, 1994, was an American pilot who parachuted from an RAF Spitfire plane into a peat bog on the Inishowen peninsula in County Donegal, Ireland, on November 30, 1941. The incident initiated a diplomatic row between Britain and Ireland.[1]
The 23-year old, a member of No. 133 Squadron RAF, originally from Nebraska, was on convoy patrol when his engine overheated, eight miles from his RAF base at Eglinton—now City of Derry Airport. Realizing he wou More..
Posted Aug-30-2012 Byanglosaxonwarlord (13591.64) 
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@anglosaxonwarlord Sounds like a hell of a man
Posted Aug-30-2012 ByPrakash123 (166.24) 
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@Prakash123
Just upped and walked out of an Internment camp and caught a train! Gotta love the "of course ya can leave the gates open, sure they'll be grand" attitude of the Irish authorities...
Posted Aug-30-2012 Bybillyjojason (128.10) 
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"That was the sound of a Spitfire".
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That was the sound of a Browning.
Posted Aug-30-2012 Byjjbmgm (18.24) 
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Its a tribute to them British engineers who made them in such hard times, with precision everytime.
Posted Aug-30-2012 ByAgryx (3.60) 
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@Agryx Except this gun was American and Belgium engineering made in Britain.
Posted Aug-30-2012 Byairhammer (324.84) airhammer View Channel Send Message
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quality right there.
Posted Aug-30-2012 ByBain (538.10) 
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"He was arrested and sent to Curragh detention prison, where he spent two years." Typical Irish. If the Nazis had been knocking on Ireland's door, the first place they would have come running to for help would have been Britain.
Posted Aug-30-2012 Byjackflint (293.24) 
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That sounds like a a show worth seeing! Those guns were in such beat up shape it surprised me when they fired. So that layer of the black clay like dirt on top is peat? Thanks ASW
Posted Aug-29-2012 Bymarc1921 (1458.06) 
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That is one legendary pain in Fritz's ass weapon.
Posted Aug-30-2012 Byhackrisk (165.24) 
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@hackrisk Cool avator.
Posted Aug-30-2012 Bypara001 (664.20) 
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Judging by the depth of the excavation, that plane seems to have crashed late in the Cretaceous Period.
Posted Aug-30-2012 Bybombkok (57.76) 
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@bombkok Good one.Made me laugh.
Posted Aug-30-2012 Byrat6 (28.30) rat6 View Channel Send Message
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nice vid
Posted Aug-29-2012 Bymarinemp00 (821.68) 
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@BigMcGuire They build it not to last. Ever heard of planned Obsolescence? Why sell you something once when they can sell it to you twice...or three times? The world economy would brake if they started building things to last. Wonderfull isnt it?
Posted Aug-31-2012 ByWanteh (22.06) 
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and a true hero no less. glad this was posted so I could learn about him!
Because he joined the British war effort while the US was still neutral, he was stripped of his US citizenship.[1][4] The RAF pilot was interned at the Curragh army camp in the neutral state of Ireland (Eire). On December 13, 1941, he walked out of camp, caught the train from Dublin to Belfast and was back at his RAF base at Eglinton within hours.[5] He was subsequently arrested and held for two more years while the auth More..
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