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David Lehmann
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Post by David Lehmann » 25 Aug 2005, 11:19

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
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#17

Post by David Lehmann » 30 Aug 2005, 21:53

Hello,

Look at this very nice photo showing a Free French SPAA.

The photo is from ebay.com
Seller is snyderstr

I came accross it thanks to a post of Lorenzo Tonioli on the Missing Lynx forum.

Regards,

David

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Post by choriZ_0 » 06 Nov 2023, 20:30

David Lehmann wrote:
15 Jul 2005, 00:34
Hello 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
it look like a citroen 23U, use by the french , equiped with 2 25mm CA mle39 (RoF 250-300)

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Re: Please post everything you have an French SPAA units!

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Post by choriZ_0 » 06 Nov 2023, 20:31

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