Thread: Old A-Max's

I am sure I have heard that story before or something very similar it could have been about the same soldier? Tough buggers back then eh? I could listen to old war stories all day if the men involved were keen to tell them. I did get to hear some amazing tales from plenty of vets during my career in the army.

One of my old OC's was in the Rhodesian light infantry. He had a mate that was caught in a well set ambush. He happened to be standing with his foot very close to a claymore when it went off. The blast sent him flying and into a ditch wich in turn saved his life from effective fire. All he had was a bruise on his foot and up his calf from the blast! Apparently due to the claymore having in a sense, a shaped charge, the pellets followed the blast wave around his leg and not into it. He was a volunteer and when he came right, apart from his hearing he quickly unvolunteered.
I have oodles more but I think I have highjacked 7mm's thread enough.