The Battle of the Bulge was Hitler’s last, best hope in the West. It was doomed from the outset. Note that the German landser on the right is packing a captured US M1 carbine. We called it the Battle of the Bulge. Regardless of the terminology, this sweeping attack represented the Ge...
used for signal flares. - The rifle with the bayonet is the classic British Lee Enfield .303inch short magazine breech loading rifle. - The carbine in the upper right of the picture is the American M1 Carbine .30 inch also used by British troops in the jungle. - The weapon with just ...
the 25th of April is known as ANZAC Day, and it commemorates the 25th of April, 1915 and the Battle of Gallipoli on the Gallipoli Peninsula of Turkey, during the First World War. The ANZAC was theAustralian and New Zealand Army Corps, which was sent halfway around the world to fight...
The troops are armed with a mix of US-supplied M1 Garand rifles, M1 carbines and two Browning .30-cal machine guns. (Paris Musées) Langlade replied that the Germans either surrender within 30 minutes or face annihilation. The officer returned to the Majestic, accompanied by Colonel Massu,...
the outbreak of World War I necessarily altered the artist's subject matter, as it did for many of his contemporaries such as Jean-Louis Forain (reference to the Ribeyrolles 1918 Carbine's Forain skin) and Auguste Rodin, two artists also represented in World War I and the Visual Arts. ...
Its appearance is mainly based on that of the Armored Forward-Sniper Vehicle (AFV). The armaments of the vehicle include a large 30mm autocannon mounted on the driver, a machine gun on the turret, a large caliber grenade launcher in the rear and a 24-tube carbine-armed 30mm cannon on ...
1918 WWI US Army US magazine rifle model of 1898 & magazine carbine model of 1899 caliber 30 81p 1918 WWI US Army Wire entanglements no. 1 to engineer field manual 32p 1919 WWI US Army Course in machine guns Part A 110p 1919 WWI US Army Course in machine guns Part B 134p 1919 ...
air-cooled, shoulder-fired M1 rifle we all know and love but don’t have to carry mile after grueling mile. One wonders if the .276 had been adopted if it might have obviated the perceived need for the M1 carbine PDW-avant-la-lettre program to “replace” (augment!) the M1911A1 .4...
the weapon’s initial designation ofKarabiner(carbine) shared the same nomenclature as the standard bolt-action Mauser infantry rifle, theKar98orKarabiner(18)98, and on the surface was meant to appear as an attempt to improve the K98 rather than to develop a whole new generation of weapons....
The war years caused Hillerich & Bradsby to turn its focus temporarily from the making of sporting goods to the making of M1 carbine stocks and tank pins. Bud Hillerich died in 1946 at the age of 80, and his son, Ward, assumed the presidency of Hillerich & Bradsby. Ward's tenure as ...