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Browning M2 - heavy machine gun, mounted on many lend-lease vehicles. Besa machine gun - in 7.92mm BESA and 15mm BESA forms used as armament on British-built tanks and armoured cars only. Vickers-Berthier - Light machine gun adopted by British Indian Army before the war, and used until replaced by Bren guns around 1942.
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Apr 9, 2020 · The Guns That Won – British And American Small Arms Of WW2. Greg Allwood. 9th April 2020 at 9:40am. In ‘Normandy ‘44’, James Holland debunks what he says is a persistent myth: that German soldiers in World War 2 had far better weaponry than their opponents. Part of this myth stems from the tendency of American troops to fetishize the ...
The Brits used three basic infantry rifles in World War II, all chambered for their famous .303 cartridge, which actually was introduced with black powder in the late 1880s. By World War II, its standard ballistics were a 174-grain FMJ bullet moving at about 2,450 fps. When they declared war on Germany in 1939, their standard army rifle was the ...
Why the Bren Gun Became the Backbone of the British Infantry. Australian Bren gunners accompany a Stuart tank during an attack on Japanese pillboxes near Buna, New Guinea, February 1943. During World War II, the Bren gun became the backbone of the British infantry, and one of the most important British WWII weapons employed in combat.
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