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Honkytonk 
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I have a question for the war movie buffs in the group. On my movie poster for "Full Metal Jacket", the helmet has some rounds held in place by a band. I thought maybe 7.62x51, but they look larger. (30/06?), although they could have used "artistic license" for effect. They also look to be joined at the base by some sort of clip? Any thoughts? Thanks!
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britrifles
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Posted: May 18 2022 at 1:45pm |
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M1 Garand enbloc clip? I’ll have to look up the poster.
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Posted: May 18 2022 at 2:25pm |
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Saw the photo, looks like MG belt links.
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Posted: May 18 2022 at 3:40pm |
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So most likely 7.62. I suspect it was common for troops to carry extra ammo for the M-60 gunner. Thanks!
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Posted: May 18 2022 at 6:35pm |
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Looks like M-60 "pig" ammo. 7.62 linked in M-80 links? 7 rounds linked would go through an M-60 in a second so not very practical. Maybe just a prop, maybe Bravado on the part of the soldier. Unless very early the individual weapon took 5.56 mm. |
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Don't shoot till you see the whites of their thighs. (Unofficial motto of the Royal Air Force)
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Posted: May 19 2022 at 9:12am |
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You carry it for luck
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Always looking for military manuals, Dodge M37 items,books on Berlin Germany, old atlases ( before 1946) , military maps of Scotland. English and Canadian gun parts.
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hoadie
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Posted: May 19 2022 at 1:14pm |
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..I'm not gonna carry it! YOU carry it! I'm too old fer that stuff.
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Loose wimmen tightened here
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Shamu
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Posted: May 19 2022 at 1:20pm |
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Oh like 3 footed rabbits?  |
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Don't shoot till you see the whites of their thighs. (Unofficial motto of the Royal Air Force)
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Posted: May 19 2022 at 1:20pm |
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HA ha, I used to say that when the c6 gunner would try to hand me 2 full ammo cans for his pig...
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Posted: May 20 2022 at 3:17pm |
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There are quite a few variants of the poster, but the give away is probably the one that shows an M-60 gunner carrying the machine gun over his shoulder. He wears the "born to kill" labelled helmet, and its clear that the ammo under the helmet band is a set of about 20 rounds of linked M-60 ammo.
Perhaps his " last Stand" back up ammo?
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Honkytonk
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Posted: May 20 2022 at 3:47pm |
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Did not know that. I have the poster with just the helmet...
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Posted: May 20 2022 at 10:28pm |
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Thats the poster !
I seem to recall that M-60 Gunners always had a bottle of lubricating oil under the hemet band as well. A great Movie, ironic that all the battle scenes were filmed in a disused gas works south of london UK.
I always wonder what they did with all the transplanted palm trees after filming finished. Supposedly the cast got ill from all the toxic chemicals on the old gas works site. |
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Posted: May 21 2022 at 3:54am |
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I think they also carried plastic bottles of bug repellent on their helmets. I wonder if it was DEET? I still have a full little plastic bottle of the original Muskol DEET. 95%, if I remember correctly. Still works awesome although it will strip the finish off a rifle.
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Posted: May 21 2022 at 4:27pm |
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It is deet, eats leather and you.
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Posted: May 21 2022 at 5:23pm |
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it will also melt a nylon tent - my BIL proved that on a memorial day camping outing years ago , its still a main ingredient in bug spray i think but im not so certain these days as i seldom use bug spray or sun screen , its a fault that my skin doctor keeps pointing out , biut im on the downhill side of dieing so i cant bring myself to change my old ways ,
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