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Post by hoover on Jul 6, 2010 6:40:32 GMT -5
Hi! Just got the chance to get a M1919A4 with Tripod. The Receiver and barrel are reproduction, the weapon a deact, of course.  I saw only a few pics with the M1919 in use by the infantry. Are there any numbers or reports how many M1919 were used and by what units? Maybe it is a nice addition to our displays. And I have seen only one pic of a M1919A6 in Indochina. Chance to get more pics? Where them that rare that a usage in reenactment would be farby? |
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Post by cookie on Jul 7, 2010 7:00:25 GMT -5
6e BPC used an A4 in 1952-53 during their operations between Tu Le and Castor. There is a photo of two paras wearing shorts and bush hats looking over a river valley. They have an A4 on a tripod. I cannot remember the area they were in. Various para units used A4's and A2's in operation Castor and the subsequent seige at Dien Bien Phu. I haven't got my books with me but there are several photos. I believe the A2 doesn't have the flash excluder on the end of the barrel.  Here is the 6e BPC photo, errounously marked as Tu Le in Bigeard's 'Ma Guerre d'indochine'. Browning .30cals in various forms were also used in large numbers mounted on infantry and legion vehicles, usually the US supplied half tracks, and also on the NAval 'Dinassaut' river squadrons. |
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savoy6
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Post by savoy6 on Oct 16, 2010 5:46:09 GMT -5
only the M1919A6 had the flash hider....along with the extra mounted butt stock....used by the US until the M60 replaced it...  the one pictured in the post above is the M1919A4 on a M2 tripod.....personally ,in a fixed defensive position i'd would rather have had a M1917A1 water cooled .30...... ;D the M2 .30 cal was an early WW2 aircraft MG,with a 1000 to 1350 Round rof, that was the basis for the "Stinger"....a USMC armorer project that gained fame on Iwo Jima...  forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=146056 |
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Post by hoover on Nov 22, 2013 3:33:59 GMT -5
 Just want to show a pic of the A6 in use. And don´t look to the black Pataugas...  The Flash Hider is removed, it is only fixed ba the small wire splint. |
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Post by sparkz on Nov 22, 2013 13:22:11 GMT -5
I'm not the expert on these, but their is a guy in our group who is, due to owning one.
Quite a bit of variation on these as theirs a WW2 model, Korean spec and an Israel model.
Think it's to do with barrel jacket, flash suppressor and carrying handle, plus a lot More I know nothing about.
Seen quite a few pictures of these used in Indochine.
Russ
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Post by lew on Nov 22, 2013 17:49:19 GMT -5
I can't ignore those black pataugas. Shame on you! He should be drummed out of the unit! Off with 'is head!
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Really needs to have the flash hider on there. I've never seen one in use without. Still, it's cool that your group has one.
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Post by hoover on Nov 24, 2013 10:14:39 GMT -5
Grip, Flashhider and Bipod is US made WW2, stock is israeli made, but identitacal to the US. The later IDF stocks were a bit different. The early stocks (like this) hasn´t the IDF stamp an the side like the later ones.
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Post by craigtx on Nov 28, 2013 21:36:11 GMT -5
Great lookin' piece! Very lucky indeed!
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Post by lew on Dec 12, 2013 8:02:05 GMT -5
I know the French used .30-06 in all their BAR's and 1919's, but does anyone know if any were chambered in 7.5 for evaluation or what have you?
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Post by hoover on Dec 16, 2013 12:33:11 GMT -5
never heard of converted US weapons to 7,5mm. But this don´t means that they didn´t ever try to do so.
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Post by lew on Apr 1, 2014 8:42:40 GMT -5
Judging by the boat loads of M1 rifles and Carbines, the aforementioned BAR and 1919's, and the boat loads of US-made ammo to go with it as part of the US's material aid, I don't see a reason they would have bothered with converting anything, especially when they already had two superb machineguns- the FM-24/29 and AA-52- already in those calibers.
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Post by Étienne on Jun 23, 2014 11:37:57 GMT -5
The French military received a bunch of M-1919's from the Americans prior to the D-Day landings (while in North Africa, I believe), but considered them inferior to their FM 24/29's, and also disliked them owing to their weight. Some interesting WWII info about the French receiving war material from the US, UK, and Canada can be found online in this book: www.history.army.mil/html/books/011/11-6/CMH_Pub_11-6.pdf |
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Post by lew on Jun 23, 2014 14:19:12 GMT -5
Wonderful document. Tangential for our focus, but the insight is appreciated. The French main-line small arms of WW2 were the equal to the offerings of the other Allies, in my opinion.
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The Flash Hider is removed, it is only fixed ba the small wire splint.
