I read about this years ago. It seems that whent he British evacuated France at Dunkirk they were forced to leave behind all their equipment including small arms.
Birtain was so gunless that a German invasion of England at that time would have been sucessful.
They called on the AMERICAN PUBLIC to send anything that would shoot to Britain asap till British manufacture could catch up.
The guns poured in and much of the home guard was immediately equipped with them till the end of the war.
After the war, those firearms with names of donators were sent back to America. Other firearms were placed in museums.
The rest were dumped into the sea.
The rest were dumped into the sea.
Every story I have heard said after WWII was over the guns were dumped into the North Sea, but nothing was said about those that were returned to the US.
Supposedly the guns were dumped in 1947.
Would you or others here have information about the number returned vs those that were destroyed or dumped into the sea ?