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I offered to buy the MG cart .... no surprise what the answer was.
Vilnius also has an amazing WWII history too although dark. It is not so well known about its racial policies etc.
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This is the MG08/15 thread so I will post some imagery on the MG08 thread reference Bayern’s discovery of earlier maxims ?. As for anti-aircraft use in WWI, period imagery favours the 08 as the AA weapon of choice so again those images will appear in the 08 thread.
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AA not so exciting ? it means anti-aircraft. The 08 was a terrific AA MG and there is lots of period imagery of 08 gun nests and positions in all sorts of configurations.
Now I am forced to dig out my AA images!
Mark
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I am not an expert but whilst I am sure there are many bits of kit that were used in WWI, that still we do not know of, or experimentation, or field armoured modifications. I do not see this square ‘thing’ as a recoil device. The point of the booster is to re-channel some of the forces and gases in order to assist the recoil process. This simply looks like something that the barrel protrudes through but fixed to the barrel. Is it some strange armour or flash hider I do not know. Is there better photo definition. I would like to see the tangent sight too as that might give a clue. It also looks to me that the RH gun also has a canvas/cloth barrel jacket sleeve. Furthermore the LH gun has a variant of an AA sight too not seen before?
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I think we may be getting confused with vocabulary . Do you mean flash hider? or Blank Firing Attachment or just the normal Muzzle booster? There are some other period images with a very large/device' on the muzzle of an 08 which again has caused much discussion from 'fortress armour' to exotic flash hider !.
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MG 08/15
in Germany: Imperial Uniforms, Headwear, Insignia & Personal Equipment
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