Posted on 10/29/2017 10:35:44 AM PDT by Simon Green
(Odds are, a little elbow grease and some lube will get those STENs up and running again.)
A couple remodeling an old home in north-central France found a cache of ammo, grenades and submachine guns hidden under a granite floor, The Lyonne Republicaine reported.
The find was made in July by the couple in the Quarré-les-Tombes area, about 150 miles away from Paris. Cached under the floor were three STEN guns, over a dozen Britsh Mills bomb type fragmentation grenades, three handguns, more than 1,000 rounds of ammo, and several Bren light machine gun magazines.
Two of the sub guns were engraved, one with the name Pepette and another in the name Alice.
The couple donated the find to the Museum of the Resistance in Morvan, who are demilitarising the weapons and plan to exhibit them starting next Spring.
According to the museum, the cache probably belonged to the Maquis Vauban, a Resistance group that operated in the area in 1943 and 1944.
During World War II the Allies dropped literally tons of arms and munitions to local resistance forces across occupied Europe to give the Germans a little heartburn. Though squirreled away over 70 years ago, caches left behind by various underground groups have popped up in Denmark, France, and Latvia in recent months, as have individual arms buried during the war for one reason or another.
Latrine!
Did any of the French faint at the sight of the weapons?
Germans...
But not the Muzzies.
I just wonder What ..How ..
And Why did Western Civilization
Bow to a 7th century death cult.
I got a good idea of the Ending.
Never fired and only dropped once. Real deals.
French Foreign Legion Under Intense Taliban DshK Fire During Heavy Firefight In Afghanistan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgiU22VcnPU
Heavy firefight French Army vs Talibans Afghanistan 2010
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbHmbw7pIyY
[familyop: French regulars take far ambush, return fire and get to good ground to call air support.]
FRENCH FOREIGN LEGION & MARINES HEAVY COMBAT ACTION TRAINING IN FRANCE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9JDtcXpI9o
[familyop: French Foreign Legion instructing U.S. Marines on a range.]
That would be a great idea for a conservative band. Beach Boys songs updated to I’m going to grab my Mossberg and head to; _____ fill in blanks. I’ve seen lyrics on hear before, I know ya’ll can do this!
When we shoot the curl,
we REALLY shoot the curl...
Riding waves and blasting pigeons....
Skeet Surfin’, wooo oooh oooh, oooh oooh....
;)
rhose old WW1 shells may be rusty on the outside but the inner parts of the fuzes are still nice & shiny & ready to go . aAlso some of the shells bring recovered are chemical shells, for an extra special party favor.
Oh, I know they’re plenty dangerous. They’re just kind of nothing to look at, they just look like rusty pipes.
Latrine!
CC
Jinx, buy me a coke.
CC
Note: this topic is from 10/29/2017. Thanks Simon Green. One of those rare modern history topics that I ping. How many have there been today, four? ;^)
Can you imagine the back story if you were to find a cache of potato masher grenades, lugers and mp 40’s in the United States?
“Weren’t Stens pretty much crude, inaccurate bullet sprayers?”
Key words there being “bullet sprayers?”
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