"Sporterised" Lee-Enfields in WWII

[Surpmil]

Surpmil ~ The Germans we given a field day with the stores left behind just like at Dieppe where the Churchill tanks were left behind for them to evaluate.

When they leave the rifle as a marker they would normally render it by ditching the bolt or mechanism my faded memory has Tom Hanks rendering a Garand marker after they buried their medic.

Material loss is probably scaled into the big scheme of things but Dunkirk was not one of them and without operation Dynamo aided by the RAF* fighters coupled to Herr H*tlers reluctance to attack England we have probably been spared a 1000 years of blackness.

*Conjecture there as allot of soldiers thought they had been abandoned by the air force they had not as the RAF fighters were stopping the German Luftwaffe inland from the beach.

Cinders, the Churchills left behind at Dieppe - and we won't get into that schmozzle unless others want to: first cancelled and then revived as a sop to Stalin and all his eager friends in the USA and Britain who were babbling about "second front now" in 1942 - were indeed evaluated after capture and the Germans concluded IIRC that they must have been an obsolete or experimental type that had been rejected for service and was being sacrificially disposed of! As you probably remember, the geniuses in combined operations who landed them on a cobblestone beach unsuited to their tracks, with a seawall too high to climb over, and no fascines or other means to surmount it, probably have to take the blame for the failure to re-embark the tanks, and of course the troops, who were thrown away as they were at Hong Kong in 1941.