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The destructive power of modern artillery and machine guns forced soldiers to seek cover on the battlefield and dig in for protection. The First Battle of Ypres (20 October - 22 November 1914) marked the end of open and mobile warfare on the Western Front. Both sides dug in and a line of trenches soon ran from the Channel to the Swiss frontier.
14 de abr. de 2011 · The machine gun is a potent symbol of the First World War’s Western Front. It takes little reading, however, to discover that its reputation as the arbiter of battle in France and Flanders is unjustified. We know that at least 60% of casualties incurred there were caused by artillery munitions.
I have come to the conclusion that the machine gun did not save lives in the Great War – quite the reverse. The production and deployment of ever-increasing numbers of machine-guns was the main ...
2 de ago. de 2018 · The Madsen gun. The 1904 Madsen Gun. First developed in 1904, the Danish Madsen is arguably the first light machine gun to be manufactured at a large scale. The Madsen primarily was used by Imperial Russia, Austro-Hungary and the German Army during the First World War – these were primarily bought before the outbreak of war.
Canadian Machine-Guns. The Canadians went overseas with only four Colt machine-guns in each infantry battalion. The Colt was a good weapon, but it tended to jam after rapid-fire. It was replaced in 1916 with the Vickers, a heavier and more dependable weapon. The German equivalent was the MG 08 Maxim, crewed by five soldiers.
It was not until 1887 that the machine gun made its way to the German Army and with its mass capacity and devastating blow, it wasn’t any wonder that the Germans wanted to produce the gun in their own right as quickly and effectively as possible at a Spandau arsenal. There were a meager 12,000 guns by the time the war broke out in 1914.
15 de nov. de 2017 · A Vickers machine gun crew in action at the Battle of the Menin Road Ridge, September 1917. Storm Troops. The introduction of light machine-guns in the middle of the war allowed them to be carried in an assault. Troops advanced in a series of short rushes, each unit in turn advancing, taking cover, and then providing covering fire for the next.
