cammerjeff
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All those guys are braver than me! Straight deck Carrier, TBM coming in for a Landing, and I don't see a barrier up, but I see they are almost all watching to get out of the way!
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Vickers machine gun team of 10th Battalion The Rifle Brigade, training near Bou Arada, Tunisia, 30 April 1943.
IWM caption : Crossing the Rhine 24 -31 March 1945 : British commandos of the 1st Commando Brigade man two
Vickers machine guns in the shattered outskirts of Wesel. The 1st Commandos had formed the spearhead of the
British assault by making a surprise crossing in assault craft on the night of 23 - 24 March under a barrage of 1500 guns.
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Machine-gun post, France, during World War I. Two machine gunners are preparing to target an enemy aeroplane.
The main gunner is sighting and aligning the Vickers machine gun, while his partner is using a telescope to spot the plane.
The larger box to the right of the gun would have held ammunition, the smaller case would have carried spare parts...
This photograph, attributed to John Warwick Brooke, shows interesting detail of the gun emplacement, made of earth
revetted with brushwood...
The machine gun seen here has been set up at the opening to a barn. Two men sit directly behind it and one man kneels
in the background. A fourth man can also be seen off to the right. The machine guns used during World War I required
more than one man to operate them, usually a team of between two and six. Initially heavy and rather cumbersome,
as the war progressed it became clear that a light-weight machine gun capable of being carried by one person was
required. The Lewis machine gun, first made available to the army in 1915, fitted the bill. It could be carried by one man,
but still required a second man to load the magazines...In a machine gun crew each man had a specific role to play.
For example, in a crew of three one man would fire the gun, a second man would feed the ammunition through the gun
and a third would supply the ammunition to the second...
Australian soliders manning a Vickers machine gun at Sanananda in January 1943....
The British Army in France 1940 Vickers machine guns of 1/7th Manchester Regiment, 3rd Division, set up outside shops
in St Pol, 8 March 1940.
The British Army in Italy 1945 A Vickers machine-gun of 1st King's Royal Rifle Corps dug into the ground beneath a
cowshed, 27 January 1945.
The British Army in North Africa 1941 Men of the King's Own Regiment man a Vickers machine gun at Tobruk,
10 November 1941.
The British Army in North Africa 1942 A Vickers machine gun team 'in action' near El Alamein, 17 July 1942.
The British Army in North-west Europe 1944-45 Vickers machine gun of 8th Battalion Middlesex Regiment,
51st (Highland) Division, supporting an attack by 154th Brigade, 8 February 1945.
The British Expeditionary Force in France, 1940 Machine gunners from a battalion of the Middlesex Regiment
(Duke of Cambridge's Own) setting up a Vickers gun in a trench in France on 21 March 1940.
Vickers machine gunners of the 1st Battalion Middlesex Regiment, 15th (Scottish) Division, lay down harassing fire in
support of forward elements during the battle for Goch, 20 February 1945.
Vickers machine gun of 8th Battalion Middlesex Regiment, 51st (Highland) Division, supporting an attack by
154th Brigade, 8 February 1945.
War Office Second World War Official Collection Soldiers in desert with machine gun....
War Office Second World War Official Collection Soldiers in desert with machine gun....
IWM caption : "A British soldier fires a machine gun with periscope attachment in the trenches at Gallipoli."
The machine gun section of Amersham Company, 5th Buckinghamshire Battalion Home Guard pictured with their
Vickers gun mounted in an army lorry.
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The British Army in Normandy 1944 Vickers machine-gun of 'B' Company, 2nd Cheshire Regiment, 50th Division,
near Audrieu, 13 June 1944.
The British Army in North-west Europe 1944-45 Vickers machine guns of 2nd Middlesex Regiment, 3rd Division,
fire in support of the attack on Overloon, 14 October 1944.
The British Army in the United Kingdom 1939-45. A Vickers machine-gun team from the Middelsex Regiment,
November 1939.
