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To: w1n1

I wouldn’t include the Browning BAR. While it was a great LMG by WW1 standards, it was outclassed by later LMGs such as the British Bren gun.


4 posted on 11/03/2017 6:49:44 AM PDT by Simon Green
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To: Simon Green

I agree. The WW2 Vets I have talked to hated the thing.

It was simply an 06 with a twenty round mag...a GD heavy 06.


11 posted on 11/03/2017 7:11:39 AM PDT by crz
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To: Simon Green
I wouldn’t include the Browning BAR.

Well, I will say that watching the BAR being used on the old TV show COMBAT made me volunteer to carry the M60 machinegun for my three years in the infantry ...

I know, not exactly the same, but still I figured that, if I was going to be in the infantry, I wanted something that would reach out and touch someone ...

14 posted on 11/03/2017 7:41:35 AM PDT by BlueLancer (ANTIFA - The new and improved SturmAbteilung)
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To: Simon Green

The title is Iconic, not the best.


18 posted on 11/03/2017 8:02:30 AM PDT by MCF (If my home can't be my Castle, then it will be my Alamo.)
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