Sten Photographs | World War II Database


Winston Churchill took aim with a Sten gun during a visit to the Royal Artillery experimental station at Shoeburyness in Essex, England, United Kingdom, 13 Jun 1941	Female factory worker posed with finished Sten sub-machinegun, Small Arms Plant, Long Branch, Ontario, Canada, 26 May 1942

British paratrooper with a Sten gun in training in Britain, circa late 1942	King Haakon VII of Norway inspecting a Sten gun with Crown Prince Olav in Britain, 1940s

Canadians guarding captured German troops, Berniers Sur Mer, France, 6 Jun 1944; note Sten gun	Lance Corporal A. Burton and Lance Corporal L. Barnett of British 6th Airborne Division at a road junction near Ranville, France, 7 Jun 1944; note Horsa glider in background

Troops of A Company, 6th Durham Light Infantry Regiment, British 50th Division in Grandcamp-Maisy, France, 11 Jun 1944; note Sten gun	An American officer and a French partisan with a Sten sub-machinegun crouched behind a car during a street fight in a French city, Jun 1944

French militia escorting captured resistance fighters, France, Jul 1944	British soldier with Sten gun on a Soviet-built F-22 USV gun which had recently been captured from German troops, France, 1944

Canadian troops posing with a captured German flag, near Hautmesnil, France, 10 Aug 1944; note Sten gun and Lee-Enfield rifle	Troops of British King's Shropshire Light Infantry regiment resting next to a Sherman tank of British 3rd Royal Tank Regiment, France, 15 Aug 1944

Polish resistance fighters Edward Mortko, Bernard Zieliński, Zbigniew Maliński, and Kazimierz Zagórski of 'Kiliński' battalion near the PAST building on Zielona Street in Warsaw, Poland, 20 Aug 1944	Four British paratroopers with Sten sub-machineguns moving through a shell-damaged house in Oosterbeek, the Netherlands to which they had retreated after being driven out of Arnhem, 23 Sep 194

German soldiers made to load victims of Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp onto a truck, Germany, 17 Apr 1945; note British troops in background with Sten submachine gun and Lee-Enfield rifles	William Joyce, 'Lord Haw-Haw', in British custody, 1945

Man with Sten gun, Palestine, 1944-1947	Troops of Malay Regiment inspecting captured communist equipment, Malaya, 1949; note Sten gun

British-Malayan policemen talking to a civilian, Malaya, 23 Apr 1949; note Sten gun	Malayan policeman with Sten gun at the police station in Pengkalan Kubor, Malaya, 22 Jul 1950