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04-11-2007, 03:18 PM
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You're Top Poster: #3   | Bren Light Machine Gun From: http://www.arrse.co.uk/wiki/index.ph...ht_machine_Gun The Bren was developed from the Czech 7.92mm ZB26. Prduction started at Enfield in 1937 and during WW2 it was also produced by Inglis in Canada where in addition to the .303" version they also made a 7.92mm version for Nationalist China. So accurate it was claimed to be a fully auto Sniper Gun, Last used in Gulf War 1. http://img364.imageshack.us/img364/4893/303bren3fw.jpg L4 7.62mm version of the .303 Bren Gun. bren11ne.jpg
__________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm Last edited by spidge; 04-11-2007 at 03:21 PM.. |
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04-11-2007, 07:56 PM
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You're Top Poster: #5  | I have the Infantry Training Volume 1 Infantry Platoon Weapons Pamphet No6 - The Light Machine Gun (All Arms) 1948. it gives some interesting details on the bren and its use. Here is one of the illustrations showing the correct way to clean the barrel! I wonder how many people actually carried out the proceedure!
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04-11-2007, 11:13 PM
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You're Top Poster: #3 | Never knew that. Thanks Morse.
__________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm |
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05-11-2007, 10:10 AM
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You're Top Poster: #18 | Bren in action The Bren in action 1944 Holland.
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05-11-2007, 10:54 AM
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You're Top Poster: #3 | Quote:
The boy seems set with his Bren.
__________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm | |
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17-11-2007, 02:24 AM
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You're Top Poster: #27 | I did training as a bren gunner when in high school cadets and it was a beautiful weapon. Its main problem was that it was too accurate the beaten zone being too small. It was also one of those weapons that never seemed to get lighter the longer you carried it or was it perhaps I was only 15 at the time? Our instructors were WW2/Korean war vets and boy could they use that bren, even playing tunes on or shooting a 4 gallon drum and then keeping it in the air with bursts. They were pretty to watch. One cadet tried holding it like a rifle until he got a handful of hot empties and another had it run away on him as it pulled forward unlike the 303 that "kicked" back. A friend of mine used a bren converted to 7.62x51 calibre NATO as a door gun in Hueys in Vietnam and said it was so good he hated to part with it when the M60GPMG replaced it. Rod |
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17-11-2007, 03:12 PM
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You're Top Poster: #3 | My dad didn't speak too much of his time going through to Tobruk however he would defend the Bren against all comers. "You might shoot the same bloke three times but his mates didn't want to be next, so they kept their heads down."
__________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm |
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