U.S. Barbed Wire Install
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U.S. Barbed Wire Install
Is there a WWII eraTM or other manual that shows how to install defensive barbed wire fence? I'm setting up a display at our museum and while I did visit a training range in the DTC that had some installed, I didn't take measurements at the time. The drawing is from a British book on defenses and the DTC setup seems to be the same as the drawing. I'm sure there had to be different layouts for different situations.
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Re: U.S. Barbed Wire Install
I just recently bought an Engineer Field Manual FM 5-15 Field Fortifications and it has barb wire layouts for many applications. Dated 1940 and supplement 1941 There is a section on obstacles and then throughout applications of it depending on time and conditions
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Re: U.S. Barbed Wire Install
That’s perfect, thanks. I was able to find a couple of different years of PDFs online. I’ll just print the section I need. The pic of the install I took looks to be a double apron. Think we’ll go with that.
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Re: U.S. Barbed Wire Install
Sounds like a great project. What Museum are you working with? Would love to come see it.
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Re: U.S. Barbed Wire Install
I'm a volunteer at the MDHCA (mdhca.org) in Goffs, CA. The town is in WWII Desert Training Center territory. Nearby are divisional camps Ibis and Clipper. Goffs was a RR siding and warehouse area during that time for unloading troops and supplies for the camps. There were several small camps around the town. What I'm working on is just re-arranging their small outdoor WWII items. Someone took what the museum had and just laid the items on the ground. There's no info on what is there. Supposedly the person working on this was going to work on it more, but it never happened. There's a mixture of stuff there. Some from the 1964 Exercise Desert Strike, since it took place in basically the same area as the DTC.
Link to video of items currently on outdoor display-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXMtZBRGATs
My plan is to get the items off the ground and separate them by the two eras. Each item or group will have a marker for it, such as M1, M2, etc. There'll be a QR code people can get and refer to a more detailed explanation of what each item is (M1 is a .....).
We'd love to have you visit. There's a lot of mining items too. They have the only 2 and 10 stamp working mills in the U.S. https://mdhca.org/cultural-center/proje ... stamp-mill
Only an hour from Laughlin, NV. Mitchell Caverns is close by also. It's a small version of Carlsbad caverns.
Link to video of items currently on outdoor display-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXMtZBRGATs
My plan is to get the items off the ground and separate them by the two eras. Each item or group will have a marker for it, such as M1, M2, etc. There'll be a QR code people can get and refer to a more detailed explanation of what each item is (M1 is a .....).
We'd love to have you visit. There's a lot of mining items too. They have the only 2 and 10 stamp working mills in the U.S. https://mdhca.org/cultural-center/proje ... stamp-mill
Only an hour from Laughlin, NV. Mitchell Caverns is close by also. It's a small version of Carlsbad caverns.
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Re: U.S. Barbed Wire Install
Wow..what a cool little museum, WWII and mining stuff, it does not get much better than that for me. Right now Im going thru a mining kick with my G scale RR. Just got finished kit bashing a couple mines. Too bad all that cool rusty stuff is on the ground and in the open. I think I may have a few pics of barbed wire stuff, will look for it.
Some pics of the 1/20 mines ive been playin with.
Some pics of the 1/20 mines ive been playin with.
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