geim druth
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I just finished 'The Emma Gees' by Herbert Wes McBride, available online here: http://manybooks.net/authors/mcbrideh.html
A good read, all about serving as a machine gunner with the Canadian Army in Flanders during WWI. The book is full of detail about serving in the trenches, all told in a no nonsense style. (And what a truly terrible existence that must have been.)
I do have a question for anyone with particular knowledge about WWI era machine guns. He mentions that his regiment was equipped with Colt, gas-operated, belt-fed machine guns. Were these Colt Model 1904 'potato diggers', or were they Vickers guns manufactured by Colt?
A good read, all about serving as a machine gunner with the Canadian Army in Flanders during WWI. The book is full of detail about serving in the trenches, all told in a no nonsense style. (And what a truly terrible existence that must have been.)
I do have a question for anyone with particular knowledge about WWI era machine guns. He mentions that his regiment was equipped with Colt, gas-operated, belt-fed machine guns. Were these Colt Model 1904 'potato diggers', or were they Vickers guns manufactured by Colt?