From: Nigel Hay (Nigel@milweb.net)
Date: Mon Jan 12 2004 - 11:57:34 PST
Vice President Blair has said we mustn't call them Crescent Wrenches any
more as it may upset Muslim sensitivities.
All this talk of wrenches on the beaches reminds me of the re-supply drop at
Arnhem that dropped canisters of new, red berets packed flat to the
beleguared troops.
In our local paper this week is a fascinating memory of Normandy about the
Falaise Corridor of Death in August 44, from a Frenchmans point of view - no
ordinary Gaul this one, he was a Panther crewman in the SS, the SS
recruited from most conqured contires and there was even a Birmingham
battalion ( no, not in AL, but UK)
Just getting back to work after 10 hours of no power here in the Bocage
following a freak storm.
NIGE
----- Original Message -----
From: "m35products" <m35prod@optonline.net>
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Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 8:25 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] Normandy Trivia
> ...or your mouth ;)
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "chance wolf" <chance_wolf@shaw.ca>
> To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
> Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 12:07 PM
> Subject: Re: [MV] Normandy Trivia
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> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: <m151@cox.net>
> > To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
> > Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 8:10 AM
> > Subject: Re: [MV] Normandy Trivia
> >
> >
> > > I had no idea how rare my cresent was! I have an ambidextrous
> comination
> > metric/stand cresent wrench!
> > > Military issue with an XM-1 model number.
> > >
> > > I should try to get rich on e-bay, what should I start the bid at? Or
> > maybe that guy will trade me his half track for it!
> >
> > You have to come up with a good story. Everyone likes a good story.
> >
> > "The XM-1 Combination Metric/SAE Crescent Wrench was first field-tested
at
> > the Army's Aberdeen Proving Ground evaluation facility in 1943, and
> adopted
> > for use in the European Theatre in February, 1944. The wrench was
rushed
> > into production in March 1944 in anticipation of D-Day requirements, and
> all
> > existing stocks were sent to Portsmouth, and then transferred to the
> Liberty
> > Ship 'William J.Clinton'. The Clinton was lost to enemy action in the
> early
> > hours of June 6, 1944, sending all existing stocks of 'Wrench,
Combination
> > Metric/SAE XM-1' to the bottom of the Atlantic off the French coast.
> There
> > the story would end but for a band of intrepid salvage divers who
> discovered
> > the wreck in 1968, and recovered the cargo. The wrenches (still packed
in
> > Cosmoline and in their original paraffin-paper wrapping) were warehoused
> in
> > Carentan until a fire destroyed the warehouse and contents in 1989,
> leaving
> > but a sole, salvageable item: one, single, solitary example of 'Wrench,
> > Combination Metric/SAE XM-1'. You now have the chance to own this
> > undeniably unique and rarest example of America's wartime manufacturing
> > might for little more than a First Mortgage, and make no mistake - this
> > opportunity will not reoccur in your lifetime!"
> >
> > Man. I feel...unclean. Like I should go wash my hands or something. :)
> >
> > P.T. Barnum
> > MVPA #0001
> >
> >
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