Couldn't help myself...reading another book on the Kokoda which I bought at the antique gun show...Blood and Iron by Lex McAulay )published by Arrow)...more indepth than that of Fitzsimon's edition...alot more tactical stuff and so on...
An excerpt...
Instruction on the Bren gun with AA Platoon, and HQ Company receiving a very basic introduction to the weapon on a rest day at Kagi...one aspect that was not explained was the gas valve, which could halt firing as carbon built up. Subsequently, when the gun stopped after a certain amount of firing, no one knew how to fix them and some guns were thrown away...
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