An "Airborne No32 sniper"

[GeeRam]

Thanks for the replies.

I wondered if anyone with "airborne" experience could explain how the UK/Commonwealth airforces would go about dropping a sniper's rifle on a drop, please? Would the scope stay on the rifle or be removed for the drop? Would the rifle and scope be dropped with the sniper or would the rifle and scope be packed in a container and dropped separately? If the rifle and sniper are dropped separately then there is a possibility of having a sniper without a rifle or having a rifle without a sniper. But if the rifle and scope is dropped with the sniper how is the rifle and scope protected from damage during the drop?

By the time of the 4T in widespread use, IIRC, the padded drop valise for the No.4 had been introduced. A padded valise, with a drop cord so rifle would have gone with the sniper and likely, scope in the tin, or more likely in the canvas scope container.

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Sorry to burst the bubble, but as far as I know the only things that were unique to us Paratroopers were the helmet/Smock and other obje da like the fold up motorbike etc.

And Trousers, Parachutist 1942 Pattern