лол проебался и жив остался

Graham Langley
1 year ago
My father, now dead, reckoned he owed his life to a spring in the Bren gun.

The story goes like this: He joined the Royal Norfolk Regiment on 14 January 1940 and during a lecture on the Bren gun he disputed the number of springs in the gun with the sergeant which lead to his being put on a charge for insubordination.

In front of the Commanding Officer my father was asked about the number of springs in the gun. He pointed out the sergeant had forgotten the spring in the safety catch, the sergeant admitted my father was correct, the charge was wiped and the sergeant reprimanded for wasting the CO's time.

A short while later he was given his first stripe and then selected for officer training. The other recruits in his squad were sent France where 97 of them were massacred in the barn at Duries Farm. If not for the spring in the Bren's safety-catch he'd have been there too.