ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD STEN GUN
From s and t (initials of Shepherd and Turpin, the inventors) + -en, as in Bren gun.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «STEN GUN»
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Sten gun in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
Sten gun and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
Featuring vivid first-hand accounts, specially commissioned full-colour artwork and close-up photographs, this is the fascinating story of the mass-produced submachine gun that provided Allied soldiers and Resistance fighters with ...
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Machine guns from backyard arsenals
GUNS BACKYARD ONE of the most amazing stories of the war concerns Britain's
Sten gun — the rapid-firing, lightweight sub-machine gun that was conceived at a
time of grave national emergency. They were first made in a multitude of ...
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The Road to Balcombe Street: The IRA Reign of Terror in London
The Sten gun, a product of a national wartime need to mass-produce a cheap
automatic weapon for British troops and resistance units in Europe, had a
notorious reputation for misfeeds from its 32-round magazine. British troops had
dubbed ...
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Far Eastern Tour: The Canadian Infantry in Korea, 1950-1953
69 In examining the battlefield performance of the Sten gun in Korea, one is
reminded of the Ross rifle fiasco of the First World War. However, unlike their
fathers in the trenches of Flanders Fields, the soldiers of the 2 5th Brigade never
...
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War in the Pacific: Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay : the Story of ...
9mm sub-machine gun with 32 round magazine in place 8 British muzzle-loading
2-inch mortar with shell 9 Pattern 1937 Sten gun magazine pouch with loading
tool 10 Australian Austen Mk 1 9mm sub-machine gun with silencer, canvas ...
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The Book of
Gun Trivia: Essential Firepower Facts
The withdrawn weapons would be issued toAllied forces, mainly the Chinese and
Free French, while the British Eighth Army in Italy decidedto retain its Thompsons
rather than using its own 9mm Sten gun. Some Thompsons were used during ...
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Canadians Under Fire: Infantry Effectiveness in the Second ...
... and largely ceremonial.102 Relatively few weapons were considered to be
uniformly ineffective, and even the Sten gun was listed as ineffective by fewer
than one-third of all responding officers. It was more common for officers to note
things ...
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Coaldust: Short Stories Set in A South Yorkshire Mining ...
On a Sunday morning in the late autumn of 1940, 'B' platoon were having Sten
gun training on the army range, with a regular sergeant weapons instructor in
charge and Lieutenant Baxter of the village Home Guard looking on. Harry
Rainer ...
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Terrible Victory: First Canadian Army and the Scheldt ...
Lieutenant Clements called for him to halt. The oacer “did so, smartly, and
received a burst of Sten gun, leaving one less German oacer to prepare for the
war,” the Black Watch war diarist wryly noted. Meanwhile, Major Slater's 'B'
Company ...
With no choice, Leonard aimed his Sten gun at the shadowy figure just yards
away from him and emptied the magazine into the man's back, stopping him
dead instantly. He had killed for King and Country and followed his orders to
shoot to kill ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «STEN GUN»
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Sten gun is used in the context of the following news items.
Sub-machine guns, prosthetic legs and 'uncivil service': The hidden …
Why she would have kept a Sten gun in London is anyone's guess. Some have suggested it was for protection, others that it was a memento, but perhaps, after a ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jun 15»
Ex-neighbour of WW2 spy: She seemed 'shy and retiring'
When she died at the age of 97 her secret life of espionage was uncovered – along with a Sten gun and a cache of weapons and ammunition. “My wife ... «BBC News, Jun 15»
97-year-old sten gun worker opens memorial
The mum-of-one worked in munitions during the war, making Sten guns for the troops on the front. She said: “I was very honoured to be asked to open the ... «Liverpool Echo, Sep 14»
Police find huge cache of weapons including 70 guns and a …
The weapons they found included Second World War Sten gun, a Dirty Harry-style Magnum revolver, rusty bayonets and even a belt-fed automatic machine gun. «Daily Mail, Jul 14»
Chicago Police discover WWII-era Sten gun during South Side drug …
A Sten MKV submachine gun, similar to this one, was discovered during a drug raid inside a South Side Chicago apartment. The raid on the South Side ... «Guns.com, Nov 13»
Dugan Ashley's tool shed: The STEN gun (VIDEO)
Dugan Ashley's tool shed: The STEN gun (VIDEO) ... “Dugan tells us everything we didn't even want to know about the STEN MK III in Dugan's Tool Shed ... «Guns.com, Sep 13»
Miniature firearms make for big reputation
He was accorded world-class status in 2002 when a Remington buffalo rifle he ... His miniature Sten gun, a submachine gun widely used in World War II, was ... «Reading Eagle, Jul 12»
Liverpool gun gang get 57 years jail after Uzi and Glocks seized
A LIVERPOOL grandad-of-11 who lived a secret double life as a gun running drug ... Hogg was shot with a Sten gun, a British military gun from World War II. «Liverpool Echo, Apr 11»
Two students die as cop sten gun show goes awry
Venkatkrishna and Sathyasai Babu, students of a school in Velerpadu town of Andhra's Khammam district, were killed today after the sten gun of a constable ... «Calcutta Telegraph, Oct 10»
Sten Gun Buyers Rejoice
These World War II era weapons include over 7,000 Lee-Enfield No 4 rifles, 1,000 Sten submachine guns and 90 Bren machine-guns. A set of guns (one of ... «Strategy Page, Nov 08»
