NOUN | a Bren gun | Bren guns | |
SYNO | Bren | Bren gun |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
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- In 1951 the Bren Gun entered into service with the Kuwait Public Security Department, followed in 1952 by the Daimler Armoured Car, both primarily with the Army (future land force).
- The Bren gun was a series of light machine guns (LMG) made by Britain in the 1930s and used in various roles until 1992.
- The FN Trombone uses a side locking design and the breechblock of the Bren gun locks against the top part of the receiver.
- After determining that an attack by his section would likely incur many casualties, he single-handedly attacked three Japanese weapons bunkers with his Bren gun.
- He was wounded a second time, but continued firing his Bren gun until he was killed after the grenade he was carrying was hit by a bullet and exploded.
- With the outbreak of World War II in 1939, however, Mackenzie was moved to the position of Minister of Pensions and National Health, in part because of his role in a scandal involving the awarding of a contract to manufacture the Bren Gun.
- Hunter cleared a farmhouse containing three Spandau machine-guns on his own, firing a Bren Gun from his hip.
- Webb and Private Arthur Bridge held their position in an upstairs window and returned fire with their Bren gun despite German machine gun and 20 mm cannon fire directed at them, some of which passed through the window opening but missed hitting them.
- The two crewmen were recovered but two commandos who had manned a Bren gun were lost and after the search was abandoned the force returned to Dover.
- Noël Coward wrote a song in 1943, "Could You Please Oblige Us with a Bren Gun?
- Although superseded by the Bren gun by 1939, nearly 60,000 Lewis guns were refurbished and reissued to British forces after the Dunkirk evacuation of 1940.
- The Universal Carrier, also known as the Bren Gun Carrier and sometimes simply the Bren Carrier from the light machine gun armament, [...] is a common name describing a family of light armoured tracked vehicles built by Vickers-Armstrongs and other companies.
- For example: two years of regular army infantry training was compressed into 3 months; some mortar units had no experience with live ammunition until they got to the firing ranges in France; Bren gun carrier crews only received their equipment in the summer of 1939, leaving little time for training in operating and tactics.
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