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  1. Blogging?

    It was cool once, if you had a blog you were you were right there at the frontier of social media.

    But I fear that I'm behind the times, just seeing the appeal now, and blogging is ancient history? Unless I'm wrong But it looks to be all snapchat/whatever.

    Oh well, I'm just going to ramble on and whoever joins me will be welcomed with conversation
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  2. MWC 71 - 1960s Canadian Airman

    by , Nov 17, 2016 at 07:37 PM (Eaglemoss Military Watches Collection.)

    The Canadian Military underwent a major tactical reorganisation in the mid-1960s to improve efficiency and flexibility while reducing underlying costs due to the threat from an increasingly hostile Soviet Union.
    Between 1961 and 1984 The Canadian Air defence command was equipped with Macdonnell CF-101 Voodoo all-weather interceptors, manufactured in the United States and armed with nuclear-tipped ...
  3. MWC 70 - 1930s German Airman

    by , Nov 16, 2016 at 07:09 PM (Eaglemoss Military Watches Collection.)

    At the close of World War 1, the victorious Allied nations imposed the Treaty of Versailles, a rigid set of rules on the defeated German nation, all branches of the armed forces were restricted in both numbers and equipment, the Army was allowed to have no more than 100,000 personnel and armoured vehicles of any kind were not permitted, the navy had a mere 15,000 personnel, strict limits on displacement ...
  4. MWC Special 9 - 1950s French Artilleryman, Indochina War

    by , Nov 15, 2016 at 10:04 PM (Eaglemoss Military Watches Collection.)

    As usual, the magazine that comes with the special is focused on the subject rather than the watch itself

    This looks to be based on a Military Hanhart chronograph pocket watch from 1944/1950.

    These timepieces are mainly used by the French in the Indochina war and features a telemetric scale to aid in artillery ranging

    Because After WW2 the Hanhart factory was located ...
  5. MWC 69 - 1940s Dutch Soldier

    by , Nov 14, 2016 at 10:11 PM (Eaglemoss Military Watches Collection.)

    The Netherlands remained neutral during World War 1 and to maintain this they made large-scale cutbacks in the inter-war period. This was reversed to a degree when Hitler came to power, and also when Dutch territories in the Pacific became vulnerable to Japanese expansionism, this proved to be too little too late and the Dutch were unable to prevent the German army overrunning the Dutch defences in May ...
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