Word: bren
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most popular, but by all odds the smartest of the lot is a song satirizing superannuated officers of Britain's Home Guard, which brilliantined Bard Noel Coward wrote and has been plugging since his return from the U.S. Title: Could You Please Oblige Us With a Bren...
Government troops, ordered on the bounce from Valcartier in Bren gun-carriers, did not arrive for four days because municipal and provincial authorities contested the Government's legal right to intercede. When the troops did show up, a worried priest said a special Mass for the "sit-downers," who then moved out peacefully...
...editorialized: "If the invasion of the Continent is ever to be possible, today, when Germany's best fighters and bombers are fully engaged in the east, would seem to be the supremely suitable moment." The British censor released several photographs of British invasion barges, big enough to hold Bren gun-carriers...
...Henry was reported well equipped with planes, tanks, Bren gun-carriers and artillery, all having heavy fire power. He also commanded an unknown quantity of material: the Australians used Tomahawk fighters (Curtiss P-40s) to drive the Ju. 88s away at Sidon...
General Marshall-Cornwall had his artillery all set last week, clean of sand, trained westward, and mounted for mobility. To make some of his guns mobile, he had loaded them on to ordinary trucks. He would have been glad to have a few more shielded guns on wheels-Bren carriers and tanks; but with the Axis threat from Libya growing every day, General Marshall-Cornwall knew it was now or never; attack or be attacked...