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Helio 5 Mk.V

THE COMMANDO POCKET MANUAL 1940-1945

To those who recreates Commandos

The book was printed in 2012 and is pleasant to read. It's about how 

future commandos trained and how they should exploit their equipment fully.

The author has taken excerpts from various training booklets from that time.

Still interesting but it's a shame that they are not complete pamphlets.

Examples of pamphlets

Combined Operation Pamphlrt No:24 Cliff Assults

Combined Operation Pamphlrt No:27

Hardening of Commando troops for Warfare

All-in Fighting

Shooting to live with the one-hand gun

Greetings

Want to wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year wherever you are.

Czechoslovak Army Postmark

Here are some different postmarks that the Czech army used during

World war II.

Booklet WAR

Booklet for Airborne personnel.

The booklet contains a compilation of the Brunval raid

Battle of Arnhem 70th Commemorations and Theirs is the Glory

Battle of Arnhem 70th Commemorations and Theirs is the Glory

By Allan.E.Smith

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYhsCiE0-LI

Event Attended Page

Updated the Events Attended page

THE WAR ILLUSTRATED

When I bought this copy I did not know there was an article about a 17

year old male from Ostrava region in Czechoslovakia. Hi was controlled by

the Gestapo after a cinema visit and became forced laborers for the Germens.

This article is about his unbelievable journey from Poland through the whole 

Soviet Union to the Japanese occupied parts. It took him two and a half years

to get to England to fight side by side with his fellow Czech.

He earned his living among other things as body guard to a gangster in Shanghai.

WAR TIME RECIPES No:2

Nice little recipe pamphlet. There is 200 recipes and some newspaper clips

from the former owner. The Miss/Mrs Ambrose Heath that compiled the 

recipe booklet had his own radio show during world war two. 

The name of the brodcast " The Kitchen Front". She invited the lisner to send 

here the recipes that are in the booklet, so the people from north to south could

 get some help, ideas and inspiration to cook good meals and desserts, as all

was rationed and it was hard times during the war.

WAR TIME RECIPES

Avery nice recipe book from world war two. The book is divided into 

seven sections. The sections are protein dishes, vegetables, salads,

fruit dishes, starch dishes, soups and sauces and preserving.

The book shows how to plan meals for the whole day from the various 

sections and an an example for the whole week. It contains about 

280 recipes.

WEBBING PROJEKT No:2

Hello again, here you will see photogrphs of how I applaying the blanco on 

the webbing. I bought a syntethetic brush that has a diameter of 40mm. 

I trimmed it as you can see in the pictures. Could be a little smaller about

30mm or 25mm, in return it was good when one brushed the blanco on 

larger items.

I used plastic sheet too, as one can see on the pictures. It will be messy.

The blanco I bought was from SoF and was ok. When you poured it into

a bowl it had the consistency as slury (cant finde metaphor for the word 

od slury it´s a Swedish word.) Quite thick. So I filled a 1/3 of the bottle 

whit water and poured it into the bowl and mixed so it became a little more

thiner. I used the same bottle as the blanco came in for the water.

This i did before I got the tip of Mario. The seconed thing in the process all 

my webbing was damp when I applied the blanco on the webbing. So the 

blanco could soak in to the fabric as it dry. 

The last thing needed to do is to brush the webbing from excess blanco

and polish the brass.

Overall the experience went well. It takes time to blanco the equipment.

Synthetic brush 40mm, could be smaller.

Trimmed brush.

Bowl with SoF blanco and with little more water in.

Help with a piece of wood for the skeleton holder.

Skeleton.

Frog.

Brushing the blanco on the pouche. 

Pouches.

Pouches.

Straps for small pack.

E-toll holder.

Belt.

Belt.

Small pack.

Small pack.

Small pack.

Cross straps.

Out for drying.

WEBBING PROJEKT No:1

Since I have never Blanco any type of webbing, so I thout it was a good 

idea to take some photographs of the work and for demonstration purposes.

There is awell known site called www.blancoandbull.com anyone can go to

and get very good advice how to get a good finnish on there webbing. 

I have used baby soap that is mild and unscented, because I could not find 

soap flakes that were recommended by B and B. When you put in the 

webbing in to the water it was almost like it was impregnated whit some

kind of water repellent, as you can see in the pictures. 

When you scrubed the webbing whit the soap the fabric started to absorbe 

the water. The pre wash of the webbing is so the blanco will be betterabsorbed

 by the fabric.

NEXT TIME IT WILL BE HOW TO APPLY 

BLANCO.

Belt, frog, cross straps, smallpack, shoulder straps for small pack, ammo pouches,

skeleton holder for water bottle and holder for the E-tool.

(Not in picture)

Small Pack

Scrubing the small pack 

Straps for small pack

Cross straps

Ammo pouches

Dirty water after scrubing 

Frog and skeleton holder

Belt

Dirty water after scrubing 

Holder for E-tool

Out for dry