no5 ww2

[dpl_hcm]

did the no5mk1 see ww2?its so close to the date did early ones see it?

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[Thunderbox]

Yes, issued to 1st and 6th Airborne Division in Europe some time after March 1945. No evidence - yet - of combat use, but the No5 was certainly in the troops hands by the time they re-occupied Denmark and Norway in the last days of the European war.

Same story in the Far East - the same paratroops were sent to join the final battles against the Japanese, but it appears that they arrived in time to help re-occupy territories from the surrendering Japanese. No record to date of actual WW2 combat, but almost certainly used in anger in the same regions within a few days of the technical end of WW2.

[Skip]

I saw video (World at War series) where two paras in England celebrating VE day and they had No 5 over their shoulders.

[villiers]

Liberating Northern Germany, where they met up with (confronted) the Red Army was certainly part of the "hot" part of WWII.

[conec]

Norway, 1945

[gsimmons]

I think they're wearing patt. '44 webbing as well.

[PrinzEugen]

Cocked, one up the spout (maybe) holding upside down by the trigger guard - what can possibly go wrong!

[Peter Laidler]

Doesn't look like '44 pattern pouches and cross straps. Anyone notice the Mk5 Sten in front of the driver