She wasn’t even five feet tall. But she carried ammo through machine-gun fire like she didn’t know fear existed. Her name was Reckless, and she was the only horse in U.S. Marine Corps history to earn a rank… and a promotion… and a chestful of medals. She started life far from the battlefield — a small chestnut mare in Korea, originally owned by a young boy who used her to help his family haul rice. She was gentle, smart, and tough, but no one imagined she would become a Marine legend. Then came

In this clip from War Pictoral News, British workers test newly-produced Vickers, Lewis and Bren and Browning machine guns at a factory, 1942. © IWM WPN 41 | Imperial War Museum London