Over the weekend, by chance, I just happened to catch the very tail end of a 1960's made WW2 film involving Britishicon airborne forces. I didn't catch the name of the film but it did show a jump onto a hot drop zone with a number of British soldiers jumping without weapons and then running to a container, on landing, to pick up their No4 rifles.

It seemed like an obvious mistake for the film to make as I was under the impression that British airborne forces always dropped with their personal weapons.

Looking on the net it would seem that the film is correct in that during the early days rifles were dropped in containers before padded cases that could be lowered during the drop, by the soldier, were developed.


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