The silencer for the Sten gun was first developed in 1942, and was put into action in 1943. It meant that the gun could be used without alerting the enemy to small-arms fire in the vicinty.

While the machine gun dating from the First World War was subsequently recovered, the Luger pistol and a Sten gun, both from the Second World War, are still thought to be lost. A total of 744 ...

The boy, who carried messages for the Resistance, died tragically in August 1944, when one of the guerrillas' Sten guns went off by accident. He was honoured on Armistice Day at a ceremony in Aixe ...

Lines Bros engineers developed the 'Sten' gun which saw extensive war use. Comments are closed for this object What's this? Most of the content on A History of the World is created by the ...