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KENYA,1952-1956,BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS
© IWM (MAU 867)
At the Naivasha Rifle Range the 1st Battalion, Royal Irish Fusiliers give members of the Rift Valley Home Guard the chance to handle modern weapons including a Vickers machine gun.
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Just two points:
1) A WW1 Vickers gun described as "modern" almost 40 years later 2) Did they forget those immortal lines "Whatever happens, we have got the Maxim gun, and they have not"? Ian H |
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"There truly exists but one perfect order: that of cemeteries. The dead never complain and they enjoy their equality in silence." - “There are things we know that we know,” “There are known unknowns. That is to say there are things that we now know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we do not know we don't know.” Donald Rumsfeld, before the Iraqi Invasion,2003. Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese. |
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