The ‘Sten gun’ was a dirt-cheap sub-machine gun that British factories cranked out by the millions during WWII. Costing about $10 each, it was notoriously unreliable.
Here, a Canadian infantryman offers a poetic appraisal of the weapon that Allied soldiers loved to hate… pic.twitter.com/4PVNbji4wQ
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