D-Day Girls, cover art
 

Turkey levers?

https://i.ibb.co/7vL7BgY/d-day-girls.jpg

good catch!! also, pretty sure i see Grab On grips there.

a Raleigh Sports would have been a better inspiration to use...

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she certainly would have her weapon slung and her back where it would not be constantly in the way

doubt that many resistance fighters had pump action firearms...

anyone pedaling down the middle of the street in civvies on D-Day with a weapon slung over their shoulder would be inviting target practice for snipers...

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I want to buy the poster.

It's not the accuracy, it's the thought. Maybe Rosie the Riveter did'nt have those big biceps, but the poster got the point across. :thumb:

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winners of conflicts always get to write the histories...however they see fit


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Trench gun

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winchester_Model_1897

+1

+100 more like re-writing history.

Forend is placed wrong for a pump, too close to the receiver.

I propose it’s a Browning Auto 5.

Or a BSA.

Obviously a typo. Should be "The Time Traveling D-Day Girls"

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enlarged it a bit and chainset appears to be an ashtabula :lol:

head emblem looks to be of the right size, shape and colour for an Arnie

suspect artist based it upon an Arnie Continental...of the early seventies :D


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I would also rather see rod actuated brakes and upright bars on that bike.....

The Shadow Knows!
 

Fork's bent.

Appears to be 650B and center-pull brakes, so it's got that going for it.

Follow the brake cables and they are not attached to the front caliper, unless one is entering at the non-drive side brake pad

Also, the dive side fork blade appears to be missing above the caliper pad.

Finally, has the unique Cino bi-axial front hub but with two demi-axles and flanges that are eccentric to each other.

https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...e8c2cf43e8.jpg

An Auto 5 doesn't have a mag tube full length under the barrel. Looks like a lever gun to me.

Back on topic, I've got this book queued up on my Kindle.

We’ll be awaiting the full report on historical accuracy.

If I find out that the French invented turkey levers, you'll be the first to know.

Wait, Wait, WAIT... Is this a past or future poster...

From the profile and the protruding bolt handle, the artist probably used a modern extended tube competition semi-auto shotgun to model in the studio.

What's something vaguely similar in profile our D-Day girl could possibly have been armed with after 5 years of Nazi occupation? An 1886 8mm Lebel carbine? A rare WWI-surplus FN A5/Remington Model 11 extended tube shotgun?

If I'd set up the studio shot, what would I have used? Probably a more believable (airsoft) Schmeisser...and a bike without extension levers!

touche