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[Bob Nelson 35Whelen]

The top one is from October 1942, Milne Bay, New Guinea. The bottom is from September 1941, Tobruk, Libya.

Webley Green
My grandfather was at Tobruk with the silent 7. It was the 7/25th that went into help but never got recognized but that's life.
Bob

 

[Tubby’s Canteen]

Thank you for correcting me gentleman I knew they were held to an island of the coast of Australia and that although the Australians were preparing for an invasion it never came. Simply had the wrong island. I'll admit to not being nearly as well read about the pacific as I am about the European theatre as the Canadians were more involved there.

 

[Tubby’s Canteen]

@Bob Nelson 35Whelen if I'm remembering correctly didn't the Australians also use a top feed bottom eject smg.? I can't for the life of me come up with the name but I think it was Australian in design and manufacture.

 

[Shootist43]

KencoArms, If you don't already have a Dillon 1050 or something similar, you'd better start looking for one. On full auto, you will burn up a lot of ammo in a hurry.

 

[Wyatt Smith]

@Bob Nelson 35Whelen if I'm remembering correctly didn't the Australians also use a top feed bottom eject smg.? I can't for the life of me come up with the name but I think it was Australian in design and manufacture.

I believe it was called the OWEN sub machine gun. They were painted green.

 

[Bob Nelson 35Whelen]

@Bob Nelson 35Whelen if I'm remembering correctly didn't the Australians also use a top feed bottom eject smg.? I can't for the life of me come up with the name but I think it was Australian in design and manufacture.

Skinnersblade
We certainly did mate it was called the Owen gun, later on we had the F1 submachine gun
Cheers mate Bob

 

[Bullthrower338]

I went to the WWII museum in Darwin, very nicely put together and I learned a lot about a piece of the war not seen on this side of the pond. The oil tunnels were very neat as well. We started building the Red Hill Fuel Storage Facility on Oahu, HI. In 1940 and it took three years to complete. The Pacific fleet is very fortunate that the Japs were not focused on the above ground storage during the attack of Pearl. Darwin was not as fortunate losing half of their fuel storage capacity over several air raids. Interesting enough our facility is still in operation and being refurbished.
cheers,
Cody

 

[WebleyGreene455]

Skinnersblade
We certainly did mate it was called the Owen gun, later on we had the F1 submachine gun
Cheers mate Bob

Y'all also had the Austen. Always thought it looked better than the Brit Sten but apparently it wasn't quite as suited for Pacific Theatre warfare as the Owen. Then again, the Sten wasn't the best design ever made to begin with.

The F1 was a curious thing when you look at it. I think it's the sort of gun someone would describe as being designed by a committee. Owen-style top-feeding, bottom-ejecting right where you're likely to put your support hand, Sterling magazine and similar general design, wooden stock and an L1A1 pistol grip, could take an L1A1 bayonet but had its own design too, and the sights were basically a flap sticking up from the receiver and a doohickey on the magwell. Kinda wonder why they didn't just use a Sterling or produce their own near-direct copies as with the L1A1.

 

[WebleyGreene455]

Skinnersblade
We certainly did mate it was called the Owen gun, later on we had the F1 submachine gun
Cheers mate Bob

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