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Don't get me wrong Warren, I never doubted that they exist as they clearly do, it's just that I don't think that we/UK
ever used them. Certainly not in the last days of the Sten gun era in the UK or as paratroopers. All I'm saying is that I never SAW them and I've been round the block a few times Mind you, I could see a use for them being dropped to partisans who might need something to carry magazines. As-new Bren mag 'bags' were mentioned recently on that forum and generally speaking, they were made from the sort of material/cloth that you'd associate with a 'one-way-trip' item
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Considering a large number have surfaced on this side (North America) of the pond, i wonder if they were part of the huge pile of Commonwealth equipment assembled in Texas for shipment to the far east. Several years ago i talked to a US ordnance chap who knew of the stores and was actually involved in the disposal of some of it at the time. The equipment was British, Canadian and Commonwealth and apparently just abandoned after the war ended. The equipment never moved as Fat Man and little Man brought and end to the war in the Pacific. (I got several 32 leather scope caps from that cache by the way for the princely sum of .75 cents each.
I do understand that the bandoliers are now being re manufactured in India and China which will throw suspicion on any of the originals. I've had mine for around 50 years......long before the days of the humpers and not many were making surplus in those days as there was still a lot of original WW II equipment around.
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Thank you infanteer, can you post any pictures? I'd be interested in seeing them. Thanks
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I'll see what I can do. Haven't posted photos here yet so I'll have to figure that part out. If you have access to the book "Into the Maelstrom" there are a few photos in there.
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