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Title: Winston Churchill’s lost wartime Tommy Gun located
Source: Express (UK)
URL Source: http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/54 ... -iconic-wartime-photo-is-found
Published: Dec 30, 2014
Author: Tom Morgan
Post Date: 2014-12-31 20:02:11 by X-15
Keywords: guns
Views: 142
Comments: 2

In 1940, as Britain feared invasion was imminent, the Prime Minister was photographed with the gun while inspecting coastal defences.

The Nazis claimed the picture showed he was no more than a gangster – the Thompson machine gun was the weapon of choice of Al Capone and his mobsters.

But the British saw the picture as a symbol that Churchill really was prepared to “fight on the beaches” and rallied behind him.

After the war, the gun was thought to be lost. But the Combined Military Services Museum in Maldon, Essex, says it has the gun on display as part of the Donnington Collection.

Military historian Clive McPherson, who has researched the gun’s history, said: “I am about 80 per cent certain it is the Churchill Tommy Gun. No one else in the country has laid claim to having the gun." (2 images)

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#1. To: X-15 (#0)

British soldiers were known as, "Tommies".

Churchill paid his dues during the Boer war and in WWI.

Cynicom  posted on  2014-12-31   20:32:20 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

#2. To: Cynicom, X-15, 4 (#1)

tommy - rudyard kipling

Lod  posted on  2014-12-31 20:42:19 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

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