I spent three months at the Balboa Naval Hospital back in the '70s. Had a Spanish look to blend in with the city. It was right across the street from the city park/zoo complex.
Soldiers of the 6th Infantry Division inspect an 8 barrel Japanese machine gun, which was captured near Manila in March of 1945.
Lone Sentry suggests their HO103 came in variants that fed left or right. 'Might' simplify that setup a tad. Japanese 12.7-mm (Fixed Mount) Aircraft Machine Gun, WWII Tactical and Technical Trends, No. 34: September 23, 1943 (Lone Sentry) That thing's had a hell of a wallop, hasn't it...
I was happy to have a power tub on my boat. The loaders were a bit spooked by it. I told them I'd rotate as needed, they had to figure out how to survive that.
What is better than an 8-barrelled machine gun? Correct: a 20-barrelled machine gun! - It has a RoF of 300 rds/s!! - Quite impressive! And what´s the reload time? - Umm, well, see ya tomorrow, mate.....
She should have used the plasma rifle and killed half the planet. Just in case the bad guys were in that category.
Royal Lancers (Queen Elizabeths' Own) of the British Army in Estonia together with the 2nd Lubelska (Lublin) Brigade of the Polish Land Forces carrying out mounted reconnaissance. There are some things that make me envy you islanders with all my heart for your unbroken traditions. (God knows I'm not a fan of the "everything was better back then" faction. But anyone who knows the terrain in the Baltic region knows that something like this actually makes sense there)
Opportunity missed. No evidence of lances. Tent-pegging. XIII British Corps at Ecoivres, 20 June 1917 IWM Q5511
Shipboard Marines with M1s in the summer of 42. I would think they would have been the last riflemen in the line to get them.
Yeah I agree. The Marines that landed at Guadalcanal went in with Springfield Rifles but with the new style helmets.
