The iconic Tommy Gun held by Winston Churchill in the famous wartime picture, which had been missing for years, has been found.
According to the Daily Express, the late Prime Minister was photographed with the gun in 1940, while inspecting coastal defences at the time when Britain feared invasion from the Germans.
The Nazis had claimed the picture showed Churchill as a gangster, since the gun was the weapon of choice of Al Capone and his mobsters.
However, the gun was thought to be lost after the war, but it turns out that it was with the Combined Military Services Museum in Maldon, Essex, on display as part of the Donnington Collection.
Clive McPherson, a military historian, who researched the gun's history, said that he was 80 percent sure that the weapon was Churchill's Tommy Gun.
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