I'm evaluating Mantis for our use (And I think we're going to use it), and during the evaluation, one person asked if it was possible to see the attachments of child issues in the parent.
I made the modification, and have submitted it back:
http://bugs.mantisbt.org/view.php?id=6759
This is in 1.0rc5
View child issue attachments in parent
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