And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Those are Canadian Rangers with their Lee Enfield rifles. I believe the plane is on Cornwallis Island, Nunavut (formerly the North West Territories). Definitely not a Twin Otter, the horizontal stabilizer is too low and there are no flaperon support arms below the wing. Al_in_Ottawa
The Colt Canada C19 is a licence-built, Finnish-designed Tikka T3 CTR bolt-action rifle modified for the Canadian Rangers. The C19 replaced the longer and heavier Lee-Enfield No. 4 Mk.1 .303" rifles which entered service with the Canadian Army in WWII and later, with the Canadian Rangers, when they were formed in 1947.
After testing different submissions from rifle manufacturers, the C19 was selected as the winner of a Canadian military procurement program requesting a new bolt-action rifle with iron sights and a detachable 10-round box magazine and other requirements.[6] The procurement program stipulated the rifles had to be produced by a Canadian manufacturer and could not be totally identical to commercial rifles. According to SAKO, production commenced in mid-2016, with rifle trials into 2017 and the full complement were expected to be delivered by the end of 2019
DeHavilland Twin Otter maybe?
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I remember the Canadian rangers used those rifles long after everyone else moved on; do they still use them?
DeleteThe Colt Canada C19 is a licence-built, Finnish-designed Tikka T3 CTR bolt-action rifle modified for the Canadian Rangers. The C19 replaced the longer and heavier Lee-Enfield No. 4 Mk.1 .303" rifles which entered service with the Canadian Army in WWII and later, with the Canadian Rangers, when they were formed in 1947.
DeleteAfter testing different submissions from rifle manufacturers, the C19 was selected as the winner of a Canadian military procurement program requesting a new bolt-action rifle with iron sights and a detachable 10-round box magazine and other requirements.[6] The procurement program stipulated the rifles had to be produced by a Canadian manufacturer and could not be totally identical to commercial rifles. According to SAKO, production commenced in mid-2016, with rifle trials into 2017 and the full complement were expected to be delivered by the end of 2019
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