Can you help me identify this Maxim machine gun

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Can you help me identify this Maxim machine gun

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Post by Marisav » 21 Jan 2008, 01:37

Hello,
Can someone help me to identify this Maxim machine gun. What type, what model, factory, anything, any infos about that Maxim machine gun is wellcome.Please.

On picture is serbian soldiers "Serbian Volunteer Corps" (ljoticevci). Picture is taken somewhere in Serbia during ww2.

Is this maybe some kind of MaximG8, or M1908, or 1910M... Czech, Russian, Finnish... I dont know, i would like someone to tell me.
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Post by JTV » 25 Jan 2008, 08:44

Marisav wrote:Hello,
Can someone help me to identify this Maxim machine gun. What type, what model, factory, anything, any infos about that Maxim machine gun is wellcome.Please.

On picture is serbian soldiers "Serbian Volunteer Corps" (ljoticevci). Picture is taken somewhere in Serbia during ww2.

Is this maybe some kind of MaximG8, or M1908, or 1910M... Czech, Russian, Finnish... I dont know, i would like someone to tell me.
I can tell you for certain that it is not Finnish since none were ever exported from Finland. It seems to be most likely German MG-08 (mainly the disk in muzzle brake suggests so), but the tripod seems to be from Schwatzlose model 07/12, which makes it a definetely weird combination.

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Post by The Edge » 25 Jan 2008, 09:48

Yugoslavia captured some MG-08s during final phase of WWI. More came in 1920s as German War reparations, so MG-08 was one of standard Yugoslav Army MG (alongside other commercialy made Maxims at disposal - ex-Serbian, ex-Bulgarian, ex-Turkish & ex-Montenegrin - all modified to 7,92x57mm in 1920s).

Yugoslavia also had more than a thousand Schwartzlose MG - ex-Austro-Hungarian equipment (also later converted to 7.92mm); actually this was the most numerous type in service. Since Yugoslavia inherited ex-AU depots in its territory, I guess there was also spare Schwartzlose MG mounts - as noted, lot of Maxims were War booty, so probably quite a few lacked servisable mounts.

So - nothing unusual. (Swedes used Schwartzlose mounts for their Browning MGs.) This is also wartime photo - so everything goes, including various field-improvised solutions.

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Post by audrew » 06 Sep 2015, 18:52

MG08 and schwarzsloze 07/12 mount, Serbian improvisation
http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic. ... k&start=15
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Post by audrew » 14 Dec 2015, 18:42

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Post by audrew » 14 Dec 2015, 18:45

II World War foto
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Post by Poot » 14 Dec 2015, 19:40

Audrew,
Was the first photo (of the German personnel inspecting the rows of MG's) in your post above mine taken in Yugoslavia?
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Post by MG1918 » 23 May 2016, 05:35

excellent info and imagery. Are these yours or all in a museum? If in a museum which one please?
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Post by audrew » 23 May 2016, 14:13

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