Desperately Need Help Authenticating Jungle Carbine!

[Colonel Enfield]

Strangely, it was the NZ VM's that were masters at get-you-home-repairs in all conditions.

Kiwi ingenuity has long been considered one of the country's great traits and there's a long history in NZ of effecting improbable repairs with "some 2x4 and No. 8 fencing wire" (ie whatever was lying around at the time). Legendarily, during the Pacific Theatre of WWII, RNZAF mechanics and engineers were able to take the discarded parts of three or four other F4U Corsairs (allegedly cast away by the Americans, so the story goes) and rebuild them into another flying Corsair which saw combat service and performed exactly as well as a factory-built plane.