Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 251, Issue 1517William Blackwood, 1942 |
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Page 164
... mounting all machine - guns brought aboard we finally had about eighty guns mounted all over the top deck : Hotchkiss , Lewis , Bren , and a couple of Vickers , and even anti - tank rifles lashed to cross struts , as well as the ship's ...
... mounting all machine - guns brought aboard we finally had about eighty guns mounted all over the top deck : Hotchkiss , Lewis , Bren , and a couple of Vickers , and even anti - tank rifles lashed to cross struts , as well as the ship's ...
Page 214
... Mounted rabbiting with a sword is practice in swordsman- ship and good fun , but it is not par- ticularly dangerous to the rabbit . A hare is better quarry , and more than once I have known a section of the Devil's Own mounted on the ...
... Mounted rabbiting with a sword is practice in swordsman- ship and good fun , but it is not par- ticularly dangerous to the rabbit . A hare is better quarry , and more than once I have known a section of the Devil's Own mounted on the ...
Page 215
... mounted and laid the guns on it . Several times during the day there were air - raid warnings , and each time we got the guns into suitable positions for A.A. fire , loaded , and waited , but never a shot could we get . One way and ...
... mounted and laid the guns on it . Several times during the day there were air - raid warnings , and each time we got the guns into suitable positions for A.A. fire , loaded , and waited , but never a shot could we get . One way and ...
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