Vintage Saturday: Battle-Scarred Maxim
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Vintage Saturday: Desperation
Tomorrow is Armistice Day, and we should all take a few quiet moments to reflect on the nature of war. For all its glamorization, war is the tragic and cruel destruction of life and we […]
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Vintage Saturday – Russian Partisans with a Maxim
I don’t envy that kid having to fire that M38…
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Maxim Silencer: It Will Pay You to Know About it!
It may have been his father’s total deafness from years of demonstrating the Maxim Gun that led Hiram Percy Maxim to develop the first successful rifle suppressor, or maybe firearms were was just in his […]
Looks like the crew stood their ground well and true to the Red Army Oath of Service.
“made by century” funniest caption ever, thanks Ian
That is a funny caption!
I’m not sure if it was the Oath of Service or the guys with the blue collar tabs at the next terrain feature back.
I really wanted to find proof that there were barrier troops with machine guns literally aimed at the advancing troops, but couldn’t. Rather, barrier troops were MP, checking everyone who wandered back and proccessing them.
Though if you are in a world that “Enemy at the gates” movie describes, then yeah.
And then, maybe the crew bugged out and every passing Landser (or Finnish trooper, or GI if this was in Korea) put a couple of rounds in it, just for grins.
All I can say is some gun crew had a very Bad Day.
Yeah awesome job ian im starting to run out of money to buy new keyboards.