#machine guns

Soldiers of Zhang Zuolin’s Anguojun warlord alliance pose for the camera with their Maxim and Hotchkiss/Japanese machine guns during the fighting against the Kuomintang, March 1927.

Vickers Gun In The Rhineland

In this final video of the Rhineland Campaign Weapons series we take a look at the little known role of the British and Commonwealth forces’ Vickers Guns. With the help of the Vickers MG Collection & Research Association we recreated a platoon line consisting of 4 Vickers Guns to recreate the Pepperpot tactics used during Operation Veritable – the western Allies’ invasion of Germany.

In this video we examine how Vickers Medium Machine Guns were used en masse to soften up enemy positions before Operation Veritable began and during the subsequent advance into the Rhineland. The Vickers was used alongside artillery, mortars and even anti-aircraft guns in what was known as a ‘pepperpot’ fire plan – where the focus was on weight of fire. The Vickers supported the advance through out the campaign and in this video we aimed to capture some of the feel of what those pepperpot bombardments might have been like – albeit on much, much smaller scale.

Check out the TAB accompanying blog for more behind the scenes photos and a comparison of our set up to a contemporary photo from outside Goch.

Let’s rock the world with the power of guitar, not with machine-dar (machine gun) image courtesy of -Azim Fakhri Kabul Art Project.

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(Yale Joel. 1950)

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