Showing posts with label machine gun. Show all posts
Showing posts with label machine gun. Show all posts

Thursday, May 2, 2019

Portrait of Union Soldiers of the 39th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment Posing With a Billinghurst Requa Battery Rapid-Fire Gun on Morris Island, South Carolina (1863)


Portrait of Union soldiers of the 39th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment posing with a Billinghurst Requa Battery rapid-fire gun on Morris Island, South Carolina, 1863. The gun was under command of Lieutenant Wheeler and Lieutenant Kingsbury, who are presumably the two officers posing on the left. Probably taken by the photography firm of Haas and Peale. From the book The History of the Thirty-Ninth Regiment Illinois Volunteer Veteran Infantry. (Yates Phalanx.) in the War of the Rebellion 1861-1865 by Charles M. Clark.

Billinghurst Requa Battery gun Wikipedia entry.

Wednesday, November 16, 2016

Two Allied Soldiers Examining the Position of a Dead German Machine Gunner on a Bank of the Canal du Nord During the Battle of Canal du Nord, France (1918)



Two Allied soldiers examining the position of a dead German machine gunner on a bank of the Canal du Nord during the Battle of Canal du Nord, France, 1918. From the book Souvenir: New Exhibition of Canadian Official War Photographs in Colour.

Tuesday, October 11, 2016

A British Machine Gun Platoon Guarding a Road Possibly During a Training Exercise During World War 1 (1910's)


A British machine gun platoon guarding a road possibly during training exercise during World War 1. By Paul Thompson. From the book The World War a History of the Nations and Empires Involved and a Study of the Events Culminating in the Great Conflict published in 1915.

Tuesday, September 20, 2016

Friday, December 12, 2014