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- The next action involving men of No . 2 Commando was Operation Musketoon.
- In September men from No . 2 Commando took part in Operation Musketoon.
- Musketoons saw service with the US Army on land as the short length musket-caliber Springfield Model 1847 Musketoon.
- Because of this, many muskets were produced in a shorter version, often called a carbine or a musketoon.
- Like the Model 1842 musket, the Model 1847 musketoon used barrel bands to attach the barrel to the stock.
- Others, like Operation Aquatint and Operation Musketoon, resulted in the capture or death of all the Commandos involved.
- Another diary kept by one of the youngest Musketoon Commandos, Eric Curtis, provides short annotations from the same period.
- In September 1942 men from No . 2 Commando took part in Operation Musketoon, a raid against the Sachsenhausen concentration camp.
- "Flt Lt Bruce's conversation with the commando leader Capt Black is retold in " Operation Musketoon " by Stephen Schofield.
- The musketoon, being much shorter, only required two barrel bands, instead of the three required for the longer Model 1842 musket.
- Sch鋎lich kept his diary throughout his time at Colditz and it notably provides insight into the time spent in captivity there by Commandos from Operation Musketoon.
- Dragoons told him that when the weapon was carried by a mounted trooper, the ball would simply roll out of the musketoon's barrel.
- Georg Martin Sch鋎lich provides a key link to the Musketoon Commando s Diary as he was in very close contact with the Commandos and supervised their captivity.
- Operation Musketoon was the codename for an Anglo-Norwegian raid against the German-held hydroelectric power plant in Glomfjord Norway between 11 21 September 1942.
- The British company of Parker Hale also produced numbers of reproductions of the Enfield 1853 rifle-musket and of the Pattern 1861 Enfield musketoon in the 1970s.
- The men selected for Operation Musketoon were two officers and eight men from No . 2 Commando and two Norwegian corporals from the Norwegian Independent Company 1, part of the Special Operations Executive.
- The flared muzzle is the defining feature of the blunderbuss, differentiating it from large caliber carbines; the distinction between the blunderbuss and the musketoon is less distinct, as musketoons were also used to fire shot, and some had flared barrels.
- No sooner did he behold those varlet heathens than he trembled with excessive valor, and, although a good half mile distant, he seized a musketoon that lay at hand, and turning away his head, fired it most intrepidly in the face of the blessed sun.