I seriously doubt that even 0.1 % of Danes know that this was the World's first LMG/GPMG - or even know that Denmark ever made machine guns, let alone semi-automatic rifles in the 1880's. Denmark is better known for being the first country to legalise porn and same-sex marriages.
I have a soldbuch from a young chap from the kriegsmarine, u boats. It has a red cross ❌️ drawn in pen over the front cover. I believe this is killed in action ? Could someone confirm this for me please ? Thanks
Because Ford was a world wide brand in WW2, it made those same trucks for the Germans while so many other buinesses were forbidden from doing business with the enemy. What was outrageous was that the US Army Air Corps and artillery units were forbidden from bombing the Ford plant (s) and so when the US went into Germany they discovered that the German military had used the Ford plants for items that they did not want to lose to bombing, and that the executive offices were being used, even with the Americans on the outskirts of the town, for high ranking officer in the Wehrmacht because they were safe havens. When the Americans took over the town and the German army fled the American soldiers including officers went to that office and were shocked by the fact that everything else around the Ford property lay in ruins. It may have been Stephen Ambrose's book Citizen Soldiers who has a section for what the American commander of artillery in the area saw and felt because he felt what a normal person would, the place should have been bombed to bits because while other factories were out of commission, Germany was still getting new Ford trucks which made it harder for American soldiers and probably played a part in getting German soldiers to a location where they were able to kill American soldiers. I know that after the War when Toyota and Datsun autos were starting to enter the American market a lot of vets would not buy them because they produced things that killed Americans. Well, I feel the same about Ford having a role supporting an enemy and the Nazies and won't buy a Ford. But it is more than that that turned me against Ford for life. Henry was an ardent American Nazi and Hitler sent the German Embassy delegation to meet with Henry and presented him with a medal designed by the Nasis to award citizens who's private industry made contributions to benefit Nazi ideology. Well, through out history, people from every nation have been corrupt traitors. Henry was nothing new. Just because there have always been corrupt, though, does not mean they should not be opposed. If you don't behoove me about the medal, Google Henry Ford, medal, German NAZI And it will come up.
Во время войны эти Форды были в СССР, но особой популярностью у военных не пользовались, обычный фермерский грузовик, заднеприводный, надежность ниже среднего, пользовались популярностью Студебеккеры полноприводные, при заявленной грузоподьемности 2,5 тонны на них возили по 4~5 тонн и ничего, выдерживало все и рама и колеса.
Not a heavy machine gun. A general purpose machine gun. There was a 15mm version of this gun, ( called BESA by the Brits ) which is what I was hoping this video was about. All that turned this gun into a 'heavy machine gun' by 1940 standards was the ability to tripod mount it.
3:54 Sorry to correct you but this is a category 2, three point linkage pin adapted well after the war as is the frame its mounted on, 4:14 They are "Jerry Cans", designed by the Jerrys and later on copied by the Yanks and the Poms and are still in use today.
THAT FORD TRUCK YOU CALLED A 1941 IS AT THE EARLIEST A 1945 TRUCK ! THAT STYLE TRUCK WAS MADE 1945, 1946, 1947, THREE YEARS ! THERE WERE NO LEND LEASE TRUCKS OF THIS DESIGN GIVEN TO THE RUSSIANS ! BETTER TRY THAT STORY OVER AGAIN !
I can’t remember if you said it in the video, but what is the exact specification of this model? I can’t find much info on it. Also very cool, and thanks for keeping history alive man!
It's a postwar 1945 to 1990 model.....some of these went to the Egyptian army and were used during the Suez war....one is in the imperial war museum in the uk,a czech built identical example supplied to egypt and captured by the british at Suez
Good vid! I got a couple of things to note 1. Saying it was produced by germany is not very fair, since the production always took place in the german-occupied "protectorate" by czech laborers. 2. The markings aren't in french, but in romanian. Most likely this was a gun intended to be shipped under the romanian contract, but captured by the nazis at the factory.
