Word: bren
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Only three weeks before the outbreak of the war did the British military discover that Bren gun carriers and small tanks could negotiate water-covered rice fields. That required a change in defensive tactics...
...theme of his bellowing was simple, understandable and dear to Aussie hearts. Australia had poured half of its effective Army (about 170,000 men), an increasing flow of airmen, Bren guns, shells and other munitions into Greece, Crete, Libya, Malaya. Australia now demanded a place and a say in the British War Cabinet...
Three years ago there was little munitions manufacturing; today there are 56,000 Australian men & women working in war factories. Machine tools, cruiser tanks, Bren guns, Australia's own Owen gun, Beaufighter airplanes are in fast production...
Birthday. Winston Churchill, 67; working at No. 10 Downing Street, London. Among his "birthday presents": planes from South America, tanks from B.W.I., tanks and Bren gun carriers from The Netherlands Indies...
...oblige us with a Bren...