Re: Dieppe

Thomas spake thusly upon matters weighty: 

> Second, the way I heard it was that the troops were told that this was
a
> practice mission to test landing procedures, so not being stupid they
> left their good weapons {brens?] at home and took some new ones with
them
> to soak in the salt water. They were in the boats when told this was
the
> real thing. The Bren gun were these stamped metal submachine guns and
> needed a lot of work on them [ they had to remove the sprues and file
> down some of the bolt heads to get the action to work smoothly and not
> jam up all the time!!!] So they went into battle with very un-reliable
> weapons and this was credited with killing a lot of troopers [the
radar
> tech I mentioned above reported this from his squad sargent {the one
who
> was supposed to kill him if things went bad.}]

I always understood the Bren to be LMG material. Is it perchance the 
Sten you are thinking of? (Probably from a somewhat similar design 
strategy....). I can't see anyone equipping a large force with any 
large number of LMGs. (Beyond what would be reasonable....) 
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