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Looks like they had something like this, ang khola, plain wooden handles, diamond bolsters:
Not an official pattern, but a fairly common style.
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Old training video - yes, there are kukris in it
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Looks like they had something like this, ang khola, plain wooden handles, diamond bolsters:
Not an official pattern, but a fairly common style.
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Another video, this one showing Gurkhas in Tunisia.
Starting around 1:46, a bayonet charge, with some Gurkhas brandishing a kukri instead of having a bayonet affixed.
Around 3:21, Montgomery visits the Gurkhas and inspects a kukri.
[video]https://youtu.be/y5JgIHQ-00o[/video]
Starting around 1:46, a bayonet charge, with some Gurkhas brandishing a kukri instead of having a bayonet affixed.
Around 3:21, Montgomery visits the Gurkhas and inspects a kukri.
[video]https://youtu.be/y5JgIHQ-00o[/video]
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Off topic somewhat, a photo of a Gurkha jumping out of an airplane in 1945:
"A rigidly-erect Gurkha paratrooper hurls out of a C-47 in the combined land-sea-air assault against Rangoon."
from http://saltofamerica.com/contents/displayArticle.aspx?18_371
"A rigidly-erect Gurkha paratrooper hurls out of a C-47 in the combined land-sea-air assault against Rangoon."
from http://saltofamerica.com/contents/displayArticle.aspx?18_371
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{insert ggurkha para joke here}
As the use of paratroops was increasing during the Malaya confrontation in the 1950's, a British colonel asked the leader of a platoon of Gurkha if they would be prepared to jump from a C130.
Somewhat to the colonel's surprise, the Gurkha sergeant requested a day to talk it over with his men.
The next day, the Gurkha duly reported that they would do it, but only over marshy ground with the aicraft flying at no more than 100ft.
'But at a hundred feet the parachutes wouldn't work,' the colonel explained.
The Gurkha replied, 'Parachutes? No-one mentioned parachutes!'
{we now return you to your regularly scheduled program}
As the use of paratroops was increasing during the Malaya confrontation in the 1950's, a British colonel asked the leader of a platoon of Gurkha if they would be prepared to jump from a C130.
Somewhat to the colonel's surprise, the Gurkha sergeant requested a day to talk it over with his men.
The next day, the Gurkha duly reported that they would do it, but only over marshy ground with the aicraft flying at no more than 100ft.
'But at a hundred feet the parachutes wouldn't work,' the colonel explained.
The Gurkha replied, 'Parachutes? No-one mentioned parachutes!'
{we now return you to your regularly scheduled program}