Colt Thompsons

[Frank Iannamico]

I was watching a documentary series. At one point they showed video of Thompsons being uncrated for "Greece."

 

However often these documentary use "representative" images that are not entirely accurate for the subject, but interesting anyway. I took the photos with my phone, not the best.

[full auto 45]

Very cool. Which series?

[Frank Iannamico]

Very cool. Which series?

I stand corrected, it wasn't a WWII series; it was a documentary called Cold War Armageddon, the video of unloading the crates of Thompsons "to aid the Greeks in fighting Communist aggression." As stated before images that are not always accurate for the subject matter, could be WWII images.

 

Cold War Armageddon, on the American Hero's channel, is a very interesting series, the TSMG video was at approximately :40 in the first episode.

[Vettom]

Why is it when people pick up a Thompson they smile? and after a mag dump too. That lady in lower right photo....just saying

[Arthur Fliegenheimer]

the video of unloading the crates of Thompsons "to aid the Greeks in fighting Communist aggression."

Frank,

 

It appears they got'em during WWII and during the Greek Civil War 1946-1948 and featured in Life Magazine.

 

Museum of the Battle of Crete and the National Resistance, the Municipality of Heraklion.

Cretan Partisan

1946 Helllenic Army 1948

Greek Government Forces attack Communist gun emplacements

 

Edited August 29, 2020 by Arthur Fliegenheimer

[rpbcps]

Arthur,

The soldiers in your picture, bottom left, are British Parachute Regt. soldiers, serving in Greece, if I am not mistaken.

 

Here are a few other pictures from that period.

 

 

M1 fitted with a vertical foregrip?

 

 

 

Judging by the sling attachments, I would think most of these are former British / Commonwealth Thompsons.

 

 

and one from WW2, German soldiers in Greece.

 

 

Stay safe

 

Richard

Edited August 29, 2020 by rpbcps

[Arthur Fliegenheimer]

Arthur,

The soldiers in your picture, bottom left, are British Parachute Regt. soldiers, serving in Greece, if I am not mistaken.

Richard,

 

The Greeks were tight with the Brits.

 

Archbishop Damaskinos Papandreou, archbishop of Athens and All Greece from 1941-1949, and Winnie, February 14, 1945 in Athens.

[thirtyround]

Image taken from rpbcps #6 post above. Interesting... This soldier obviously prefers the vertical foregrip on his M1 Thompson.

 

[rpbcps]

 

Arthur,

The soldiers in your picture, bottom left, are British Parachute Regt. soldiers, serving in Greece, if I am not mistaken.

Richard,

 

The Greeks were tight with the Brits.

 

Archbishop Damaskinos Papandreou, archbishop of Athens and All Greece from 1941-1949, and Winnie, February 14, 1945 in Athens.

Archbishop Damaskinos and Winston Churchill from the amazing photo book Ellada 1944 by Dmitri Kessel.jpg

 

Nice photo, first time I have seen that one.