An RAF wing commander is still equivalent to a commander RN, and an RAF group captain is equivalent to a captain RN; RAF ranks are basically RNAS ranks with some slightly snazzier names.Wing Commander was a RNAS rank equivalent to a Commander, three broad stripes. Samson was a Lt Commander when he went to France in OTL but was a Commander by the end of the mobile period of the war. He missed out on promotion to Wing Captain later on in the war, he was to join the RAF in OTL. We shall see what he does in this story.
It's the enlisted ranks that get really odd. Below the rank of corporal the RAF uses modified naval ranks, at corporal and above they use army ranks.An RAF wing commander is still equivalent to a commander RN, and an RAF group captain is equivalent to a captain RN; RAF ranks are basically RNAS ranks with some slightly snazzier names.
It really confuses pongos...
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This is the Seabrook Armoured lorry that entered service in 1915 (early?). Looks quite handy and I just love the Naval ensign staff mounted on the stern!!
Below is a Peerless truck in Army service with a 2lb Pom Pom as an AA gun. There is no reason why the RNAS cannot acquire a few of these guns from RN depots in 1914.
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A combination of Seabrook lorries armed with 3lb Hotchkiss guns, Pom Poms and Vickers machine guns would be quite a formidable force.
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This is the Seabrook Armoured lorry that entered service in 1915 (early?). Looks quite handy and I just love the Naval ensign staff mounted on the stern!!
Below is a Peerless truck in Army service with a 2lb Pom Pom as an AA gun. There is no reason why the RNAS cannot acquire a few of these guns from RN depots in 1914.
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A combination of Seabrook lorries armed with 3lb Hotchkiss guns, Pom Poms and Vickers machine guns would be quite a formidable force.
missed oneIt's the enlisted ranks that get really odd. Below the rank of corporal the RAF uses modified naval ranks, at corporal and above they use army ranks.
Aircraftsman 2nd class, Aircraftsman 1st class, Leading Aircraftsman, Senior Aircraftsman, Corporal, Sergeant, Flight Sergeant, Warrant Officer 2nd class, Warrant Officer 1st class.
Ah, the clockwork machine gun. Hope they are pumping out Hotchkiss guns quickly enough to eventually replace these. Now that I think on it, with the front further away, I wonder if the Hotchkiss Portative factory will remain in France. IOTL they moved Hotchkiss gun production to the south of France and Portative production to Britain.St Etienne Mle 1907
"They were hanged during an escape attempt."8th September 1914, Butte Montana.
The Sergeant of the guard had grown tired of the three prisoners in his care, their singing, chanting and constant demands for release had tried his patience. In addition, he had spent the previous night drinking whiskey with a fella who had explained that the union and the mine owners would be real glad if the prisoners had a hard time of it.
He had picked his detail this morning with care, the corporal who he put in charge was a real hard case, he should not have even been in the National Guard, but they needed numbers and so were not as picky as they should be. As for the rest of the detail no one selected had much going for them except violent tempers and a willingness to look the other way.
The singing resumed, this time it was that socialist anthem The Internationale, the corporal bellowed for silence only for the next chorus to ring out. “Tis the final conflict; Let each stand in his place. The International working class, shall be the human race!” With that the guardsmen rushed into the cells, billy clubs smacked and rifle butts clubbed, within moments all three of the prisoners were down on the cell house floor, that didn’t seem to satisfy the attackers who continued to brutally beat the prisoners. Finally, they realised that they may have taken the attack too far, two men were choking and gasping but one man the former president of the rouge union would never harangue a crowd again, nor man a picket line his head was twisted at an unnatural angle a boot print outlined on his face.
The corporal knew with that that he had gone to far, the testimony of the survivors would see him hang. He was a brutal man but not stupid, a solution was obvious, he cried out stop or I will shoot, with that he fired his revolver three times hitting the two injured men in the chest, the dead man he shot in the head.
With that he turned to his men and said, “I warned them didn’t I boys” they agreed, “the was fixin to escape, for sure” said one young soldier a cowboy from Texas who had somehow ended up in the Montana National Guard.
They were affiliated with the Wobblies.So what's so special about these dead prisoners? Union something something?
The industrial workers of the world.They were affiliated with the Wobblies.
Interesting digression. I presume Wilson is in power in the USA?Clearly it foreshadows that the US will turn communist in the future
Yes he is.Interesting digression. I presume Wilson is in power in the USA?