No5 MkI Rifles in use 1944-45

**P-07ShortLee** · 05-14-2012 05:53 PM

I know there are several photos of No5 rifles in use by paras in 1944-45, were they the only units to use the No5 in large numbers before the war ended? I have heard references to some being sent to the pacific area late in 1945, but that may have been with another para unit.

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**Beerhunter** · 05-15-2012 03:58 AM

Originally Posted by P-07ShortLee

I know there are several photos of No5 rifles in use by paras in 1944-45, were they the only units to use the No5 in large numbers before the war ended? I have heard references to some being sent to the pacific area late in 1945, but that may have been with another para unit.

The only pictures I have of that time are of 6th Airborne Division carrying them in the Netherlands and the same formation carrying them in (the?) Victory Parade in London.

The next time they surface in my books is during the Malayan "Emergency" in the early 1950s being carried by regular infantry.

**villiers** · 05-15-2012 08:40 AM

Norway

, Palastine and (as far as I can remember, even Suez).

**Norton1** · 05-15-2012 11:52 AM

Kind of funny that they called them "Jungle Carbines" when they didn't see service in the jungles of WW-II -

**Beerhunter** · 05-15-2012 12:53 PM

Originally Posted by Norton1

Kind of funny that they called them "Jungle Carbines" when they didn't see service in the jungles of WW-II -

That's the whole point, "we" never did - originally. They were Rifles, No.5 to us (and officially remained so) until, as far as I am aware, someone in the US (Sam Cummings?) started calling them "Jungle Carbines".

**LesterH** · 05-15-2012 01:10 PM

Three Para went into Norway icon

to take the German icon

surrender with some No5/ Jungle Carbines in 1945.

**Parashooter** · 05-15-2012 02:16 PM

The jungles of Norway icon

are notoriously thick, steamy, and infested with venomous lemmings.

**Norton1** · 05-15-2012 03:04 PM

And everyone knows how serious lemmings can be -

**HOOKED ON HISTORY** · 05-15-2012 05:22 PM

This picture was posted previously in anouther thread . I posted again in case you missed it. Not to many No 5 action photos it seems.

**gsimmons** · 05-15-2012 05:27 PM

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