2004年6月7日 · I have seen references to 1. M.G.K , 2.M.G.K., 8.M.G.K. and was wondering if anyone knew just how many Machine Gun Companies could be found in a German infantry regiment? I had assumed one, but why would each regt give it …

2006年2月7日 · In Martin Middlebrook's book "The First Day On The Somme", he indicates that a German machine-gunner was found chained to his gun at Montauban, opposite to where the 7th Queen's & 8th East Surreys attacked. There is a separate entry in the War Diary of the 8th York & Lancasters, positione...

2012年1月30日 · I am researching the opening phase of the July 1916 Somme offensive and currently reading an account which is devoted to the action around Thiepval. It refers frequently to British casualties from machine gun emplacements particularly during the crossing of no man land on the morning of July 1st....

2011年8月13日 · On the other hand, Willmer and Liman both seem to indicate that at this time the German machine-guns came into action further north, on the Suvla front. If there were 12 German machine-guns as Fahrettin says, then how many (if any) went to join the 9th Division at Anzac, and how many were with Willmer at Suvla.

2008年12月31日 · Fig. 133 - Right side closeup of the British "Pattern B" (German MG01) machine gun, showing (from rear) the brass .303 calibre feedblock with "Enfield" and broad-arrow markins; the rivetted plate denoting the use of cordite-loaded ammunition, the (scored-out) original serial number 320, and the filed-off sledmount trunnion on top of the water ...

2010年4月5日 · I recently read of a German MG company whose primary MGs were the German Maxim MG 08, but the company had, in reserve, three British Vickers, and one Russian Maxim. About mid-1915, of about 4800 MGs in the field, the Germans were using 1200 captured MGs, many Vickers and Russian Maxims, some re-worked to use German SAA.

2024年5月6日 · I'm hoping to learn if the color combinations of this late war bayonet troddel indicate it as belonging to a Machine Gun Company. From looking at the reference charts offered on the internet and seeing an exact color combination leads me to believe the troddel belongs to a MGK. The following notation ( Kp.

2008年7月15日 · A short extract from the Battalion War Diary of the 1/9th Bn. King's Liverpool Regt. for July 31st 1917: A German Machine Gunner on the roof of a concrete dugout had caused us many casualties – in carrying out the attack on this gun Lieut FAUSSET who led the party was shot through the heart – a Tank arrived at the critical moment and shot the machine gunner …

2006年1月1日 · Judging from photos of surviving examples, there seems to have been several slightly different models of the Madsen LMG in service with the Imperial German Army in WWI, as I've observed slight differences in the shape of the flash-hider, and also the prescence/absence of a bayonet fitting under the barrel.

2008年7月15日 · It certainly runs counter to analysis and descriptions by earlier military analysts. In his "Superiority of Fire" and analysis of the use of rapid fire weapons written in WW2 Major Pridham devotes three chapters to the use of machine guns in WW1 including a section on the use of German Pillboxes.