# artillery (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 3 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover artillery. Page: Feed: --- ## [the final Arisakas still in military use](https://wwiiafterwwii.wordpress.com/2026/08/17/the-final-arisakas-still-in-military-use/) _2026-08-17 · jwh1975 · wwiiafterwwii_ The NST, a college-age military training system in Thailand, is the last organized official use of WWII Japanese Arisaka rifles today in 2026. (A member of Thailand’s NST (Territorial Defense Students) with a Type 83 (WWII Japanese Arisaka 38) rifle during 2021, this one with the bolt removed.) (This Type 83 / Arisaka 38 was \[…\] ## [last days of the MAB 38](https://wwiiafterwwii.wordpress.com/2026/07/24/last-days-of-the-mab-38/) _2026-07-24 · jwh1975 · wwiiafterwwii_ On 25 June 2026, BrigGen. Massimo Boschetto announced that the Italian navy was offering for auction most or all of its remaining MAB 38 submachine guns. These are the last of this long-serving firearm in any official Italian use, ending a remarkable 88 year run. (Italian navy sailors with MAB 38 submachine guns and a \[…\] ## [happy Independence Day / defueling Prinz Eugen / USS Colorado postwar proposal](https://wwiiafterwwii.wordpress.com/2026/07/03/happy-independence-day-defueling-prinz-eugen-uss-colorado-postwar-proposal/) _2026-07-03 · jwh1975 · wwiiafterwwii_ I would like to wish readers here in the United States a happy Independence Day, our nation’s 250th year. Over the years I have tried to find Independence Day-related things still on topic for the 4th of July but am short of new ideas. Instead, below are two things related to writings years ago when \[…\] ## [WWII US Navy SAMs which continued after 1945](https://wwiiafterwwii.wordpress.com/2026/05/31/wwii-us-navy-sams-which-continued-after-1945/) _2026-05-31 · jwh1975 · wwiiafterwwii_ Long ago I wrote on how the converted WWII battleship USS Mississippi (BB-41 / AG-128) was used to develop postwar naval missiles. Over the years I also covered how the French navy used captured German SAM technology and the integration of postwar weapons onto WWII US Navy hulls. This will generally exclude project “Bumblebee”, the \[…\] ## [why it is difficult to reimport WWII American guns back into the USA today](https://wwiiafterwwii.wordpress.com/2026/04/18/why-it-is-difficult-to-reimport-wwii-american-guns-back-into-the-usa-today/) _2026-04-18 · jwh1975 · wwiiafterwwii_ I have a feeling some readers might find this the most boring thing I have covered. For those interested in this niche topic, I hope it is of value. One of the weirdest idiosyncrasies of American law is that now in the 2020s, it is easier – far easier in fact – for a private \[…\] ## [Walter u-boat technology after WWII](https://wwiiafterwwii.wordpress.com/2026/03/21/walter-u-boat-technology-after-wwii/) _2026-03-21 · jwh1975 · wwiiafterwwii_ The hydrogen peroxide-based Walter drive system for submarines was one of WWII Germany’s more exotic technologies. In three nations after WWII, it was attempted to capitalize on this. (HMS Meteorite, the former German U-1407, three years after WWII’s end.) (S-99, the lone Soviet “Whale”, the ultimate advancement of the WWII German AIP technology.) hydrogen peroxide \[…\] ## [George Barrington Milner (Royal Artillery)](https://www.belsen.co.uk/george-barrington-milner-royal-artillery/) _2026-03-19 · Belsen Online Archive · Bergen Belsen Concentration Camp_ My Grandad George Milner, 1908-1977. Royal Artillery 21st Army Group. 1939-1945. His war ended at Luneburg heath, may 1945, never spoke about what he heard and saw at Belsen. Enlisted 18th April 1939. 42nd AA Bn RE (TA) 451 total views ## [selected WWII arms captured or seized by Israel](https://wwiiafterwwii.wordpress.com/2026/02/28/selected-wwii-arms-captured-or-seized-by-israel/) _2026-02-28 · jwh1975 · wwiiafterwwii_ This is a look at certain WWII weapons either captured on the battlefield by Israel, or seized by Israeli police. It is not exhaustive, as Israel has either used, or had used against it, pretty much every WWII weapon of the European theatre. Some things like German 98k rifles and MG-34 machine guns, or the \[…\] ## [Vincent Michael Fay (British Army Chaplain)](https://www.belsen.co.uk/vincent-michael-fay-british-army-chaplain/) _2026-02-17 · Belsen Online Archive · Bergen Belsen Concentration Camp_ THE LIBERATION OF BERGEN-BELSEN CONCENTRATION CAMP, JUNE 1945. Father Vincent Fay, a British Army chaplain of 9th British General Hospital, christens a baby, Henji Dorochova, who was born in Belsen. The baby is held by his mother, Raissa from Voroshilovgrad in the Ukraine. During the British relief operation, new mothers were asked whether they wished their babies to be baptised and if so, under… ## [First in (Pt 2)](https://www.belsen.co.uk/first-in-pt-2/) _2026-02-17 · Belsen Online Archive · Bergen Belsen Concentration Camp_ Further info for the ‘First In’ to Belsen… I have just completed reading a new(ish) book by Gavin Mortimer, entitled “Stirling’s Men” which I would highly recommend. It is the story of all branches of the SAS (1- 5 SAS including the Belgian Detachment) from Day 1 in North Africa to the end of WWII with 1 and 2 SAS on the Elbe, then going to Norway for “clean-up”operations. Most of the information… ## [Realtime AI Arbitrage Terminal (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/msc17fIIN9kO) _2026-02-17 · **Sponsored**_ Realtime auto-trading across exchanges with scored setups, backtesting, and risk controls. ## [Anthony Stedman Till – RAMC](https://www.belsen.co.uk/anthony-stedman-till-ramc/) _2026-02-17 · Belsen Online Archive · Bergen Belsen Concentration Camp_ Anthony Stedman Till, known as ‘Tim’, was a consultant surgeon in Oxford. He was born in London, on 5 September 1909, the eldest son of Thomas Marson Till OBE, an accountant, and Gladys Stedman, the daughter of a metal broker in the City. Tim was educated at Ovingdean Hall, Brighton, and Marlborough, before winning a scholarship to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, from which he went to the… ## [63rd Anti-Tank Regt](https://www.belsen.co.uk/63rd-anti-tank-regt/) _2026-02-17 · Belsen Online Archive · Bergen Belsen Concentration Camp_ A super photo of B Troop, Anti Tank Regt. 249 Battery. (Oxford Yeomanry). The unit were ‘first in’ Belsen. 15th April. Hopefully further details to follow… Having entered Belsen on 15 April 249 Battery were relieved on the 20th of April. From Belsen the battery moved to Celle. Its task in Celle was to establish a camp for newly released Russian Prisoners of War. Having been in Celle for just over… ## [Vernon James Evans](https://www.belsen.co.uk/vernon-james-evans/) _2026-02-17 · Belsen Online Archive · Bergen Belsen Concentration Camp_ Liberation of the camp. Pass issued on 29 July 1945 (filed aside) and photo taken with freed inmates. Vernon in the middle of photo 22,693 total views ## [Ernest Bauman – Royal Artillery](https://www.belsen.co.uk/ernest-bauman-royal-artillery/) _2026-02-17 · Belsen Online Archive · Bergen Belsen Concentration Camp_ Found on X. Regiment unknown. Royal Artillery so likely to be either 58th LAA or 113th LAA, Royal Artillery. 5,157 total views ## [Leslie Hardman](https://www.belsen.co.uk/leslie-hardman/) _2026-02-17 · Belsen Online Archive · Bergen Belsen Concentration Camp_ Reverend Leslie Henry Hardman MBE HCF (18 February 1913 – 7 October 2008) was an Orthodox Rabbi and the first Jewish British Army chaplain to enter Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, an experience “that made him a public figure, both within his community and outside it”. Hardman was born in Glynneath, Wales to a Polish father and Russian mother who were both Jewish. The couple lived in the Welsh… ## [Lt. A H Busby – Royal Artillery](https://www.belsen.co.uk/lt-a-h-busby-royal-artillery/) _2026-02-17 · Belsen Online Archive · Bergen Belsen Concentration Camp_ Found on X. Regiment unknown. Royal Artillery so likely to be either 58th LAA or 113th LAA, Royal Artillery.\ 5,273 total views ## [Kenneth Knight – RAMC](https://www.belsen.co.uk/kenneth-knight-ramc/) _2026-02-17 · Belsen Online Archive · Bergen Belsen Concentration Camp_ I am Kenneth Claude James Knight, now aged 85 (article dated November 2003 – Ed) and living in Dorset. Mine was not really a military family, although my father had served in the Great War. My third Christian name is in memory of an uncle killed around the time I was born. I was educated in Essex and at London University Extension Classes (under Prof H Finder). I served in local government until… ## [WWII German weapons of the Alfhem affair](https://wwiiafterwwii.wordpress.com/2026/02/04/wwii-german-weapons-of-the-alfhem-affair/) _2026-02-04 · jwh1975 · wwiiafterwwii_ This was an unusual incident during the Cold War era; an east bloc shipment of ex-German WWII weapons to a Latin American nation. (A ship full of problems.) (Guatemalan army officer with a WWII German le.IG 18 during the 1950s.) (Militiamen of Guatemala’s Patrullas de Autodefensa Civil march with WWII German 98k rifles during 1996.) \[…\] ## [unusual method of mothballing a WWII warship](https://wwiiafterwwii.wordpress.com/2026/01/15/unusual-method-of-mothballing-a-wwii-warship/) _2026-01-15 · jwh1975 · wwiiafterwwii_ During the early 1970s the US Navy tried out a unique experimental new method of preserving warships in reserve, aboard the decommissioned USS Betelgeuse (AK-260). (photo from May 1972 issue of The Naval Reservist magazine) WWII and service before the experiment USS Betelgeuse did not start off as a commissioned WWII warship but rather as \[…\] ## [Merry Christmas 2025](https://wwiiafterwwii.wordpress.com/2025/12/22/merry-christmas-2025/) _2025-12-22 · jwh1975 · wwiiafterwwii_ I wish a Merry Christmas to all wwiiafterwwii readers, a few days early. Below is a Christmas card of the British XII Army of 1945, the first peacetime Christmas which Great Britain had since 1938. The 1945 card shows Burma (today, Myanmar) accurately-scaled and overlaid sideways on a map of Europe with pre-WWII borders. In \[…\] ## [Refer a Friend, Earn Rewards (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/LPYqNmVOJYKy) _2025-12-22 · **Sponsored**_ Earn rewards when friends get the Graphite Business Card through your referral. ## [WWII armor in Cambodia 1953 – 1975](https://wwiiafterwwii.wordpress.com/2025/12/13/wwii-armor-in-cambodia-1953-1975/) _2025-12-13 · jwh1975 · wwiiafterwwii_ This is a look at Cambodia’s use of WWII tanks and armored vehicles before the coming of the Khmer Rouge in 1975. (A WWII M24 Chaffee tank of FANK, the Cambodian army, in battle at Koki Thom on 8 May 1970.) (Associated Press photo) (The bitter end: up-gunned WWII M3A1 Whites during the last-ditch defense \[…\]