#piat

[mou1age]

Deeply, deeply unserious weapon.

[theworldatwar]

British soldiers armed with a PIAT (Projector Infantry Anti-Tank) keep watch for any sign of enemy movement - Normandy, France, June 1944

[thishumblehobbyist]

I refuse to take the Brits seriously. They unironically built a tube with a spring inside to fight tanks during WW2 and named it PIAT - projector infantry anti tank. Look at it and it’s smugness. Thinking it’s too good for a rocket motor or something.

[historicalfirearms]

A PIAT from Arnhem

Last weekend at the We Have Ways podcast's history festival the Airborne Assault Museum brought along a very interesting piece of history - a PIAT with Arnhem provenance. The PIAT had allegedly been dropped during Operation Market Garden but not used. 

At some point after the battle it was discovered by locals and handed into the Doorwerth Museum, west of Oosterbeek, and was subsequently gifted the the Airborne Assault Museum in the 1950s. The PIAT is in great shape, albeit deactivated, and it was a pleasure to take a look at a weapon which could be traced back to the battle.

Check out the accompanying blog here

[kesbeacon]

Also it was Radch Trick or Treat exchange today! So here’s Tisarwat and Piat being a lil drunk and having fun in the Gardens for blessphemy.

[ahundredhundredheartbeats]

Black Virgin Mary by Keith Kelly Via Flickr: Black Virgin Mary at the Basilica of Our Lady of Piat

[jessesxtravaganza]

Got my first plane with a PIAT

But this is the best part

[hms-exeter]

Men of 'D' Company, 1st Battalion, London Irish Rifles, prepare to fire a PIAT during a training exercise in Italy, 1 February 1945.

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