How the Ugliest Gun in History Saved Desperate Australia

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When the jungle mud jammed the world's "best" submachine gun, Australian soldiers turned to a weapon made of plumbing pipes.
The Problem: The Thompson Submachine Gun was a "thoroughbred." It was beautiful, expensive, and completely useless in the New Guinea mud. Experts mocked the alternative—the Owen Gun—as a "Plumber's Nightmare" because it looked like a garage accident and defied every rule of military engineering.
The Risk: Facing Japanese ambushes in the "Green Hell" of Kokoda, soldiers had to make a choice: trust the high-tech American weapon that jammed when dirty, or bet their lives on an ugly, top-loaded "toy" that had been rejected by the Generals.

✅In this video, we uncover:
-The "mud test" that humiliated the military establishment.
-Why the "ugly" top-mounted magazine was actually a stroke of genius.
-How a garage tinkerer's invention saved the Australian Army from disaster.

How the Ugliest Gun in History Saved Desperate Australia

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