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Vintage Saturday: Marines on Crete
Italian marines at Sitia, on the east end of Crete, armed with M38 Carcano rifles and an M37 Breda heavy machine gun.
Vintage photo
Submachine Guns
Vintage Saturday: Tonight’s Raid
Finnish soldiers with m/31 Suomi submachine guns (and a pinup photo).
Vintage photo
Vintage Saturday: Island Hopping
American Marine aiming an M1 Garand on Iwo Jima. Note the WW1-style trench knife tucked in behind his canteen.
Artillery
Vintage Saturday: Bigger is Better
The German WWI light minenwerfer worked so well that it was scaled up to a medium-sized version. And then a heavy version. And then the very heavy 38cm version.
Bolt Action Rifles
Vintage Saturday: Ancient Superpower
Greek soldiers in the winter of 1940/41, fighting Italy. Note the 1903 Mannlicher-Schönauer rifle, one of very few military rifles to use a rotary magazine.
Medium MGs
Vintage Saturday: Not for Squeamish Collectors
Russian Colt 1895 machine gun destroyed on the Eastern front, WWI.
Bolt Action Rifles
Vintage Saturday: On Maneuvers
Zouaves on maneuvers with M1886 Lebel rifles, in 1909.
Submachine Guns
Vintage Saturday: Mountaineer
Not sure which army exactly, but he has a PPSh-41 (or copy) and plenty of rope…
Aircraft MGs
Vintage Saturday: Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines
Parabellum 1914 MG in gunnery school, Belgium, 1918 (photo from Drake Goodman)
Accessories
Vintage Saturday: Everyone Likes Kittens
The lighter side of war – German soldiers in a halftrack playing with a kitten and their MG34 mount (note the periscope optic. Photo from WarAlbum.ru.