The Cowra Breakout: Difference between revisions
The Cowra Breakout: Difference between revisions - Internet Movie Firearms Database - Guns in Movies, TV and Video Games
The Cowra Breakout: Difference between revisions
The [[Short Magazine Lee-Enfield (SMLE)|Lee-Enfield No.1 Mk III*]] is used by Australian soldiers in New Guinea, including Stan Davidson ([[Alan David Lee]]), Mick Murphy ([[Dennis Miller]]) and Nobby ([[Alex Broun]]). Most of the guards at the Cowra POW camp use it as well.
The [[Short Magazine Lee-Enfield (SMLE)|Lee-Enfield No.1 Mk III*]] is used by Australian soldiers in New Guinea, including Stan Davidson ([[Alan David Lee]]), Mick Murphy ([[Dennis Miller]]) and Nobby ([[Alex Broun]]). Most of the guards at the Cowra POW camp use it as well.
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[[Image:Mills Bomb SGM-1.jpg|thumb|none|150px|Mills Bomb High-Explosive Fragmentation hand grenade]]
[[Image:Mills Bomb SGM-1.jpg|thumb|none|150px|Mills Bomb High-Explosive Fragmentation hand grenade]]
[[Image:Davidson MillsBomb.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Stan Davidson ([[Alan David Lee]]) pulls the pin on a Mills Bomb.]]
[[Image:Davidson MillsBomb.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Stan Davidson ([[Alan David Lee]]) pulls the pin on a Mills Bomb.]]
[[Image:Davidson MillsBomb 2.jpg|thumb|none|600px|The Mills Bomb lying in the foxhole, miraculously intact despite being armed.]]
[[Image:Davidson MillsBomb 2.jpg|thumb|none|600px|The Mills Bomb lying in the foxhole, miraculously intact despite being armed for some time.]]
=Japanese Weapons=
==Arisaka Type 38==
Junji Hayashi ([[Junichi Ishida]]) uses an [[Arisaka Rifle|Arisaka Type 38]] in New Guinea. After a failed banzai charge, Stan Davidson ([[Alan David Lee]]) bayonets him in the chest but fails to kill him.
[[Image:Arisakat38.jpg|thumb|none|400px|Arisaka Type 38 rifle - 6.5x50mm Arisaka]]
[[Image:JunjiHayashi Arisaka38.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Junji Hayashi ([[Junichi Ishida]]) with an Arisaka Type 38.]]
[[Image:Hayashi Arisaka38.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Hayashi chambers his Arisaka Type 38.]]
[[Image:Hayashi Arisaka38 2.jpg|thumb|none|600px|The Arisaka Type 38, fitted with bayonet, dug into the soil next to the foxhole as Hayashi and Stan Davidson ([[Alan David Lee]]) struggle.]]
[[Image:Davidson Arisaka38.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Stan with the Arisaka Type 38 after bayoneting Hayashi.]]
Revision as of 09:09, 13 November 2010
The following weapons were used in the film The Cowra Breakout:
Corporal Doyle (Laurie Moran) and Private Hook (Max Cullen) man a Vickers Mk1 Machine Gun mounted on a truck during the breakout. After being overrun, Hook manages to dismantle the gun to prevent its use by the Japanese.
Stan Davidson (Alan David Lee) pulls the pin on a Mills Bomb to scare Junji Hayashi (Junichi Ishida) in the New Guinea mission. Hayashi manages to grab it during hand-to-hand combat with Stan, but Stan manages to throw it away from the both of them.
Junji Hayashi (Junichi Ishida) uses an Arisaka Type 38 in New Guinea. After a failed banzai charge, Stan Davidson (Alan David Lee) bayonets him in the chest but fails to kill him.
