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How key WW1 weapons reshaped combat then - and still influence combat now
That rate of fire, combined with good marksmanship, turned ordinary soldiers into surprisingly effective long-range killers. The idea that a well-drilled infantryman with a repeating rifle can shape a ...
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Dan Snow Tests One Of The World's First Machine Guns
In this video, Dan Snow joins British firearm historian Jonathan Ferguson to test fire a Vickers Machine Gun from the First World War. And the results are truly shocking. This video is an extended ...
At 10:59 a.m. on Nov. 11, 1918, a German machine gun crew fired a burst of rounds at approaching Americans. One bullet struck 23-year-old Pvt. Henry Gunther in the left temple. He died instantly.
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