----- Original Message -----
From: Jay <dagobert@ix.netcom.com>
To: Military Vehicles Mailing List <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2000 2:11 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] US Mounted Recon in Italy in WW2
...I suppose it does qualify as an original "MV"...
>
> Just so long as you don't go trying to "restore" the original 1940's
horse!!!
> (Although with the cloning technology out there nowadays, I guess
ANYTHING'S
> possible?) :-)
>
***** The Lord Strathcona Horse Museum in Alberta had 6 (?) of their horses
stuffed (if I said 'mounted' then some wit would joke about an alternate
meaning) after a vehcile accident killed them. True, they are not 1940s
production horses, but they are the same model. :-) They had one of these
horses in a mobile trailer museum at the Abbotsford Air Show last month in
British Columbia - complete with saddle, and a 'stuffed' soldier (also known
as a mannequin).
***** A friend here, who hails from Zimbabwe (Southern Rhodesia), recently
loaned me a book about their war with guerillas in the 1970s. On the cover
was a picture of some of their mounted troops on patrol. The horse even had
a "Trailer, Self-propelled Mk. I " i.e. another horse ! :-) Unlike US
cowboys, this pack horse was not led by a rope, but by a pole with a ring
through the horse's nose. Hmmm. I know what some of you are thinking. Will
this device work on that teenage boy with the multiple body-piercing rings
who is hanging around your precious daughter? It should, but you have to
hook onto the ring on the first try ...
Colin Macgregor Stevens
MVPA Member 954 (since 1977)
Editor MAPLE LEAF UP (Est. 1977) newsletter
of Western Command Military Vehicle Historical Society
Pitt Meadows, British Columbia, Canada
E-mail: colin@pacdat.net
Personal web site: http://bcoy1cpb.pacdat.net
1944 Willys MB
1942 BSA airborne bicycles (2)
> Jay Travis
>
> "F. Brian Mead" wrote:
>
> > Howdy list,
> > Ok, since I'm always looking for the odd or off-beat, I'm looking
into
> > the Provisional Mounted Reconnaissance troop of the Fifth (US) Army.
They
> > were from the 3rd Infantry Division. There's a photo of them in the "US
Army
> > Handbook 1939-1945" by George Forty.
> > I can't tell what kind of saddle they're using. Has anyone else
seen any
> > other photos or info on this unit? Would the saddle have been 1904 or
1928
> > McClellan saddles or were they captured German or Italian military
saddles.
> > If so, are the German or Italian saddle still available in rideable
> > condition? Or are they reproduced. I know that in the early days after
> > D-Day, the US Airborne used captured German horses, but I haven't heard
about
> > how the Recon. got their saddles in Italy.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Brian Mead
> >
> > P.S. Yes this is really MV related! =^) I think it would be a neat
> > impression to do at a Military Timeline.
> >
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