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Bren gun

[bren] / brɛn /


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So if you can't oblige us with a Bren gun The Home Guard might as well go home.

From Time Magazine Archive

Czechoslovakia, whose famed Bren gun as well as the Skoda Works' howitzers made the country second only to Britain as a weapons merchant in the 1930s, has dropped from the big leagues.

From Time Magazine Archive

Under persuasive Sergeant Nelson and a physical instructor with "the face of an executioner who is kind to his children when off duty," rookies learn drill, the Bren gun, spit-&-polish and super-discipline.

From Time Magazine Archive

Only three weeks before the outbreak of the war did the British military discover that Bren gun carriers and small tanks could negotiate water-covered rice fields.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mr. Downing shot out orders, threats, and penalties with the rapidity of a Bren gun.

From Mike and Psmith by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse




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