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Sterling Submachine Gun, The

By: Osprey

Type: Softcover

Product Line: Weapon - Assorted

Last Stocked on 10/26/2024

Product Info

Title
Sterling Submachine Gun, The
Publisher
Product Line
Category
Author
Matthew Moss
Publish Year
2018
Dimensions
7x9.75x.25"
NKG Part #
2147738243
MFG. Part #
OSPWEAP065
Type
Softcover
Series
WEAP065

Description

Designed by a motorcycle racer turned small-arms engineer, George Patchett, the submachine gun that eventually became known as the Sterling was developed during World War II. Some suggest it first saw action during Operation Infatuate with No. 4 Commando, before becoming fully adopted by the British Army in 1953 as the Sterling Machine Carbine (L2A1).

It was center stage for many of Britain's post-colonial conflicts from Malaya to Kenya and from Yemen to Northern Ireland. The silenced L34A1 Sterling-Patchett entered service in 1966 and first saw action deep in the jungles of Vietnam in the hands of the elite special forces of Australia, New Zealand and the United States during prisoner snatches and reconnaissance patrols.

Employing first-hand accounts and painstaking technical analysis, this engaging account features carefully selected archive photography and specially commissioned color artwork depicting the submachine gun that armed British and other forces for nearly 60 years.