Hello,
Here are 2 photos taken from "L'armée française de 39 à 41 ou le conflit deux ans trop tôt ..." by J. Borsarello
The book is really not good but sometimes there are 1-2 interesting photos. These ones are from the DGA archives and show a pre-WW2 test with a MAC (Reibel) 13.5mm HMG.
This MG was fed by 2 magazines, once the first was empty it used immediately the second one. The HMG was never adopted by the French army simply since the 13.5mm cartridge was not produced.
Regards,
David
Please post everything you have an French SPAA units!
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Re:
it look like a citroen 23U, use by the french , equiped with 2 25mm CA mle39 (RoF 250-300)David Lehmann wrote: ↑15 Jul 2005, 00:34Hello Pachy,
I expected you to post in this thread Thanks for the very complete report.
The photo in Indochina is from the magazine"Batailles HS n°3 - l'Indochine en guerre (1940-1945)" and the credit for the photo is the "Musée des troupes de Marine" (at Fréjus). The caption indeed indicates a 20mm Oerlikon gun but I am convinced it is a mistake and the gun is a 13.2mm Hotchkiss.
Here is an other truck, mounting a 25mm AA gun.
Regards,
David