Hi Can anyone make out the gun he is holding please? Thanks Steve
Hi all, during WW2, how were soldiers already serving in infantry battalions given formal trained on the smaller crew served weapons, ie Boys...
Can anyone identify this stubby looking MG? Used by the Dutch in Asia. Thanks! [ATTACH]
Hi all Does anyone have any info on this ammo box, as fitted to Stuart's? [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Designation, dimensions, clear...
Something I've wondered about for some time, why the Besa machine-gun used in British tanks was chambered for the 7.92mm round. Why wasn't it...
The title of the thread is more or less self-explanatory. In the course of the war, many belligerents found themselves short of ground MGs and...
For those who want more information on the Bren light machine gun, we've started to collate information we have in the archive here on a new...
In this long video we track the development of the spares and tools carried with the Vickers machine gun (in British, Empire and Dominion service)...
Here we take a closer look at one specific gun in the collection. This time it's H 5529 - a 1918 gun with a smooth barrel casing. An added bonus...
The Vickers K was used extensively across the British and Commonwealth forces during the Second World War, but as I discuss in the video, it also...
Earlier in the summer, we did some blank firing from one of the monopods for the Vickers machine gun. These were issued so that the guns could be...
My name is Tom Davis, Jr. and I am a new member of WW2talk.com. I recently authored a book on the Thompson submachine gun. It is titled, GREAT...
Despite my best efforts at sites like bayonetstrength150.com, I am still unclear on the allotment of the M2 HB .50 caliber HMG to US Army and USMC...
Were "Tommy" guns ever issued as part of the Weapons Establishment of Field Companies/Squadrons or Field Park Companies/Squadrons in 1942?
Tank crews were issued with the 38W hand pistol as a personal weapon, we knew after all that range practise that you could not hit a bucketat 10...
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