Brb. Googling now.
In 1903 the US Army adopted a new rifle, but it also had 2 standard machine guns...
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Brb. Googling now.
Maybe?
Yes the Colt potato digger and something else. Part of me thinks that French piece of crap I can never remember the name of, but part thinks that was not adapted until WW1.
Well, since I didn't know sure. You said a search engine was cheating. Although I cheated after I posted, Google says one was right and the other is a tater thing.
I'm pretty sure all these other answers were from a google search as well. lol
I did not cheat, which is why I have no idea on the 2nd one. I know the colt and know the Gatling was adopted after the civil war. I just do not know if it was still in use or we had adopted that French thing by then.
But now I am going to because I want to know.
Colt potato digger and maybe a benet-mercie?
Wouldn't the browning 30 caliber be one of them and the Hotchkiss machine gun was the other one?
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My late Gfather was a machine gunner in WW1. He was wounded in France 3 days prior to the Armistice, and carried shrapnel in his leg to the the end of his days. I think he was selected as a MG Gunner because he was rather large for his day - about 6'2", over 200 lb.
Remember, MG tactics were fairly new at that time. MGs were used more as artillery than Anti-personnel weapons. note I'm not saying that MGs weren't used in the AP role, just that more often they were used as a long-distance harassing fire.
They trained on the Colt-Browning M1895. When they got over there, all the 1895s were taken away (more likely the guns never made it there), and they were given that French POS to use - the Chauchat.
He hated it.
The Chauchat was eventually replaced with the Hotchkiss, at least for his unit. He was using the Hotchkiss when he was wounded - at the same time his remaining 2 team members were killed by an artillery airburst.
He said that he used the corpses as further protection - pushing them up on the lip of the position.
He was there, by himself, wounded, for 2 days before being relieved/rescued (he couldn't walk) by his unit.
Remember, MG tactics were fairly new at that time. MGs were used more as artillery than Anti-personnel weapons. note I'm not saying that MGs weren't used in the AP role, just that more often they were used as a long-distance harassing fire.
They trained on the Colt-Browning M1895. When they got over there, all the 1895s were taken away (more likely the guns never made it there), and they were given that French POS to use - the Chauchat.
He hated it.
The Chauchat was eventually replaced with the Hotchkiss, at least for his unit. He was using the Hotchkiss when he was wounded - at the same time his remaining 2 team members were killed by an artillery airburst.
He said that he used the corpses as further protection - pushing them up on the lip of the position.
He was there, by himself, wounded, for 2 days before being relieved/rescued (he couldn't walk) by his unit.
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