PugJesus@lemmy.worldM to HistoryPorn@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoFrench soldiers with a Chauchat Light Machine Gun, Western Front, WW1, 1918lemmy.worldimagemessage-square9fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up11arrow-down1imageFrench soldiers with a Chauchat Light Machine Gun, Western Front, WW1, 1918lemmy.worldPugJesus@lemmy.worldM to HistoryPorn@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square9fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squareFireTower@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months ago Who designed this thing?!?! Unironically Louis Chauchat. If memory serves the mags didn’t work in testing when they tried to close them. And they needed machine guns now more than they needed good ones after they would have lost.
Unironically Louis Chauchat. If memory serves the mags didn’t work in testing when they tried to close them. And they needed machine guns now more than they needed good ones after they would have lost.