Saturday 10 April 2010

ADEN

These troops by Crescent are not part of Monty's army but regarding their equipment pertain to the battle in aden I think.
The Aden Emergency was an insurgency against British crown forces in the eastern and southern parts of what is now the country of Yemen on the southern Arabian Peninsula. It began on 10 December 1963, when a state of emergency was declared in the British Crown Colony of Aden, a British possession since 1837, and its hinterland, the Aden Protectorate. It lasted until 30 November 1967 when British forces withdrew from all of South Arabia and the independent People's Republic of South Yemen was proclaimed.

The Patchett Mk1 is a submachine gun design in Britain in 1944. It was adopted by the British Army in 1953 and continued in service until 1988. More than 400,000 units were manufactured over the years and the weapon saw service in a number of conflicts such as the Suez Crisis, Aden Emergency, Cold War, Falklands War, Northern Ireland and the gulf war.

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