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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
Portrait of British Soldiers of the 1st Volunteer Battalion, Royal Fusiliers Posing With a Maxim Machine Gun (1901)
Portrait of British soldiers of the 1st Volunteer Battalion, Royal Fusiliers posing with a Maxim machine gun, c. 1901. From Black and White Illustrated Budget.
Thursday, June 2, 2016
Ottoman Soldiers Posing in a Trench in Harcira, Palestine (1917)
Ottoman soldiers posing in a trench in Harcira, Palestine, 1917. By the American Colony in Jerusalem.
Source.
Thursday, April 16, 2015
A German Machine Gun Crew in a Trench During the Battle of Tannenberg Near the Masurian Lakes in East Prussia (1914)
A German machine gun crew in a trench during the Battle of Tannenberg near the Masurian Lakes in East Prussia, August 1914.
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Monday, February 23, 2015
American Troops Posing with a Gatling Gun at Fort McKeen in North Dakota (1880)
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American troops posing with a Gatling gun at Fort McKeen in North Dakota, c. 1880. By F. Jay Haynes.
Source.
Harvard Business School source.
North Dakota state government source.
Friday, December 12, 2014
Union Soldiers Posing With a Billinghurst Requa Battery Rapid-fire Gun on Main Street in Rochester, New York (1862)
Union soldiers of the 18th Independent Battery, New York Light Artillery, posing with a Billinghurst-Requa Battery rapid-fire gun on Main Street in Rochester, New York, c. 1862.
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