Slight thread creep here, but in the early 50s my father was posted to Niarobi, Kenya, with rest of family in tow.
One afternoon I and a group of friends (all about 8 years old) were enacting a safari on a large area of undeveloped grassland and came across an old truck body. On clambering inside it, we found a load (about 10) of guns. Full of bravado, we each lugged one of these ‘guns’ back to the camp in which we lived. It turned out, when our fathers spied them, that they were all turret cannons from (it was believed by the grown ups) B17s or Hudsons and all were close to being in working order. Suffice to say, they were confiscated and the British Army quickly removed all evidence and the truck!
