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PHOTOS: Cigarettes Save Life! - WWI Cravan "A" Cigarette Tin With The Shot It Stopped Still Inside
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| circa WWI
| Retronaut
Posted on 10/17/2013 6:53:44 PM PDT by DogByte6RER
Arthur Mann joined the Royal Flying Corps in 1914. His daughter-in-law says he was shot down by the Red Baron, Manfred von Richthofen Arthurs parachute caught in a tree. He also fought in the trenches when Arthur was shot, the bullet bounced off this tin and saved his life. He also survived gassing, but this experience badly affected his long-term health. He died in 1953″
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KEYWORDS: 1914; arthurmann; banglist; bullet; cigarettes; militaria; modernhistory; thegreatwar; tobacco; worldwar1
Proof positive that cigarettes CAN save lives.
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posted on
10/17/2013 6:54:04 PM PDT
by
DogByte6RER
("Loose lips sink ships")
To: DogByte6RER
Where the Germans using shotguns in WWI?
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posted on
10/17/2013 6:55:46 PM PDT
by
skeeter
To: skeeter
Ya that’s like a 3 or 4 ought buck.
Looks bigger than 00 (.32-33)
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posted on
10/17/2013 6:59:29 PM PDT
by
One Name
(Ultimately, the TRUTH is a razor's edge and no man can sit astride it.)
To: skeeter
Where the Germans using shotguns in WWI? My first thought was a musket ball. I don't think those were in use.
Perhaps the bullet deformed like that?
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posted on
10/17/2013 7:01:09 PM PDT
by
ClaytonP
To: DogByte6RER
I’ve recently started downloading and listening to old time radio shows during my long drives on the job. I’m getting a big kick listening to “Rick Diamond, P.I.” and the Camel cigarette ads. I wonder if my doctor really does smoke Camels?
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posted on
10/17/2013 7:05:18 PM PDT
by
EricT.
(Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. Big brother is watching you.)
To: DogByte6RER
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posted on
10/17/2013 7:08:41 PM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(21st century. I'm not a fan.)
To: ClearCase_guy
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posted on
10/17/2013 7:08:51 PM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(21st century. I'm not a fan.)
To: skeeter
probably "canister shot" , large scale anti-personnel rounds fired from cannons. Filled with multiple projectiles like shotgun shells, but larger.
CC
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posted on
10/17/2013 7:09:15 PM PDT
by
Celtic Conservative
(tease not the dragon for thou art crunchy when roasted and taste good with ketchup)
To: One Name
In WWI the Germans were using the 7.92 FMJ round. Called 8mm.
It would have punched right through that tin cigarette box, and the guy carrying it.
The German 9mm Luger pistol would also have punched through the can.
Maybe sgt York opened up on the guy with a model 97 pump loaded with OO buck at 60 yds.
That would make those images seem reasonable.
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posted on
10/17/2013 7:10:11 PM PDT
by
9422WMR
(: " Tolerance is the virtue of a man who has no convictions".)
To: 9422WMR
8mm mauser and older Steyr rounds would have blown thru that tin.
Don’t know the scale of the tin but it could be OO were lookin at.
Buddy has a trench gun lacking a few parts; the 1897 changed the trench war- I heard the germans wanted them outlawed because they were so effective in the hands of the Yanks.
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posted on
10/17/2013 7:19:59 PM PDT
by
One Name
(Ultimately, the TRUTH is a razor's edge and no man can sit astride it.)
To: skeeter
I’m thinking this story has more holes in it than that cigarette tin.
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posted on
10/17/2013 7:32:47 PM PDT
by
Nik Naym
(It's not my fault... I have compulsive smartass disorder.)
To: ClearCase_guy
That’s good.I wonder if Craven Moorehead is related to Wilma Dikfit.
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posted on
10/17/2013 7:39:25 PM PDT
by
Octar
To: DogByte6RER
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posted on
10/17/2013 7:43:49 PM PDT
by
tsowellfan
(www.cafenetamerica.com)
To: ClearCase_guy
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posted on
10/17/2013 7:56:59 PM PDT
by
Liberty Valance
(Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
To: Celtic Conservative
probably "canister shot" , large scale anti-personnel rounds fired from cannons. Filled with multiple projectiles like shotgun shells, but larger. It could also be a piece of shrapnel from a bursting shell. Many of those used round shot .
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posted on
10/17/2013 8:10:10 PM PDT
by
Charles Martel
(Endeavor to persevere...)
To: DogByte6RER
The tin may date from when Mann was a grunt prior to joining the RFC.
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posted on
10/17/2013 11:19:16 PM PDT
by
Rockpile
To: DogByte6RER
They packed them a lot tighter in those days?
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posted on
10/18/2013 3:10:12 AM PDT
by
Joined2Justify
(sure am glad the government has never lied to me)
To: 9422WMR
If it was sopped by the tin box even filled with cigarettes it was most likely nearly spent any way and most likely wouldn’t have caused a fatal wound.
To: DogByte6RER; Revolting cat!
The AMA is going to suppress this statistic.
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