An American crew with a Vickers Sons & Maxim 2.95″ Mountain Gun in the Philippines. These were pressed into service against the Japanese as late as WWII…
Vintage Saturday: 2.95″ Vickers Mountain Gun
Heavy MGs
ABC’s of Machine Guns
Here’s another neat manual – A.B.C du Mitrailleu – the ABCs of Machine Guns. This was published in 1917 (the fifth edition, anyway) in French, and does a nice job showing all the most useful […]
Manuals
Vickers Class F Manual
After the conclusion of World War One, the RAF was looking for a replacement for the Lewis for an observer’s gun in aircraft use. The Lewis had reliability issues, and was not a particularly fast-firing […]
Artillery
Vickers Mk VI 8″ Howitzer manual
Today’s gun is a bit larger than before – I want to take a quick jaunt back to artillery. We have a pretty thorough operations manual for the Vickers Mk VI 8″ howitzer. This piece […]
NOT a Machete, a Bolo!!!!!!……T
I want one for my front yard – right next to my flag pole.
I want one to go next to my flag pole!! Just the thing for neighborhood reveille on Sunday mornings.
I agree with Turk. These soldiers are using Model of 1909 bolos which, until WW1, were manufactured by the Springfield Armory. Neat photo.
Here is one in action.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hxr-obi3sQQ