Vintage photo - Forgotten Weapons

Vintage Saturday: Premature Anti-Fascists

October 19, 2013 Ian McCollum 27

Canadian volunteers of the Mackenzie–Papineau Battalion in the Spanish Civil War, armed with with grenades and Mauser Schnellfeuer machine pistols or (more likely) Spanish-made copies thereof.

Vintage Saturday: Double the Fun

October 12, 2013 Ian McCollum 45

I would probably be willing to compromise with one bazooka and a heavier winter coat. Updated to include the back of the Jeep too (thanks, Ray):

Vintage Saturday: Three or Five?

September 28, 2013 Ian McCollum 25

Members of the French resistance in Paris, August 1944. Interesting to see that the shooter has an M-16 Berthier with a 5-round magazines, but the window sill has a pile of three-round clips. Also interesting […]

Vintage Saturday: Tactical Sweater

September 21, 2013 Ian McCollum 38

Volunteer member of the Albanian Legion, raised by the Austro-hungarian Army after occupying Albania in 1916. Note the Mannlicher clips of old 11mm cartridges and the C96 Mauser pistol.

Russian Followup

September 17, 2013 Ian McCollum 26

Two followups for you today, courtesy of readers who ferreted out some addition material for me – thanks guys! First, my vintage photo of the Soviet marine snipers generated a bunch of discussion of the […]

Vintage Saturday: Join the Army, See the World

September 14, 2013 Ian McCollum 27

German soldier carrying a captured DS-39 machine gun and tripod over a pretty bleak steppe.

Vintage Saturday: Heavy Firepower

September 7, 2013 Ian McCollum 17

Vintage Saturday: Marine Snipers

August 31, 2013 Ian McCollum 27

Soviet marines from the Baltic Fleet ashore at Leningrad, armed with PEM 91/30 sniper rifles.

Vintage Saturday: Inventor Afield

August 24, 2013 Ian McCollum 4

John Moses Browning (center) elk hunting near Jackson Hole, Wyoming around 1910. His rifle is a Remington Model 8 in .35 Remington, and he is flanked by his brother Matthew on the right. His skinning […]

Vintage Saturday: Fire on Ice

August 17, 2013 Ian McCollum 36

US troops manning a Browning 1919A4 in Alaska.