Navy Holsters and stocks

[Norme]

Originally Posted by George Anderson

Navy guys don't get dirty on their pretty ships.

Not always true. The first photo shows the S.M.S. Konigsberg partially sunk in the shallow Rufiji delta in German East Africa, in the first moths of WW1. The crew dismounted the deck guns (2nd photo) and converted them into field pieces. They spent the next four years as a guerilla army fighting the British and were still fighting some weeks after the war ended, since word of the armistice took a while to reach them.
Regards, Norm