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Monday, September 2, 2013

Why are these Rat Patrol SAS guys looking so British and sporting weird looking drum fed machineguns?

Everyone knows the Rat Patrol was mostly American, had Jeeps and Brownings and were IN COLOR!

Old NFO said...: Noticed the driver has a Fairbairn-Sykes on his belt...; September 2, 2013 at 11:04 AM
DoninSacto said...: They can't be British, the steering wheel is on the left side...where it belongs.; September 2, 2013 at 2:55 PM
NotClauswitz said...: Are those Lewis guns in .303? The American car-and-truck salesman could sell Jeeps to anybody!; September 4, 2013 at 1:39 PM
Unknown said...: NotClauswitz: The pan-fed machineguns are Vickers K, aka: Vickers G.O.; September 5, 2013 at 5:39 PM
Unknown said...: Not Lewises; Vickers K aircraft machine guns.; September 6, 2013 at 11:10 AM
Unknown said...: Chevrolet trucks, Vickers K machine guns.; September 6, 2013 at 11:10 AM
Windy Wilson said...: Is the driver in the foreground anyone in particular from the SAS? David Stirling? Paddy Mayne?

For all its hidebound tradition, no one did irregular forces half so dashing as the British.; September 11, 2013 at 6:59 PM