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Miniatures Adventure => Weird Wars => Topic started by: fastolfrus on April 12, 2020, 07:00:19 PM
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Just caught the tail end of a 1957 B movie on UK Freeview 70 (The Horror Channel). Film called 20 million miles to earth.
Interesting to see the equipment deployed in Rome to fight against the creature, Chaffees were no surprise, given that they were led by a US general, but the surprise was bren carriers (looked to be towing 6 pdrs, but might have been US 57mm).
Did the US use bren carriers?
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The troops are wearing British style webbing and Italian helmets so I would suppose that they are "extras" borrowed from the Italian Army and equipped from WW2 surplus?
The Italian Army of the early Cold War was equipped with a variety of US and UK equipment often determined by which army equipped them at the end of WW2.
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Just interested to see the bren carriers there.
The chaffees appear in a lot of American B-movies of that era, also seen them in at least one film masquerading as German WWII tanks.
The other interesting one was the bazooka with a gun shield, reminiscent of a panzerschrek. Did the US add shields to bazookas in the 1950s?