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05-10-15, 00:00
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Having been present when Vickers has been deployed from the engine deck, I can see why the idea didn't take off with more crews... Your arc of fire is more restricted than you think, and the percussion onto the drivers and gunners heads is rediculous !
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05-10-15, 02:30
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Vickers and Bren carriers - some info
Some years back at the Cor's VMMV Openhouse, I met a veteran of the independent Machine Gun Company assigned to the 61st Division. He was a bren carrier driver and had his carrier with him from D+19 to the end of the war.
He said in all that time, they never fired the Vickers from the engine deck mount.... always took the section of Vickers up to a firing position and strung phones to them and the layer with the Barr and Stroud rangefinder. He said in their role, they just never "fought from the carrier" with the Vickers.
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