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The Winchester Model 1897, also known as the Model 97, M97, Riot Gun, or Trench Gun, is a pump-action shotgun with an external hammer and tube magazine manufactured by the Winchester Repeating Arms Company. The Model 1897 was an evolution of the Winchester Model 1893 designed by John Browning. From 1897 until 1957, over one million of these ...
Winchester Model 1897 Trench Gun with M1917 bayonet Winchester Model 1912 Trench Gun Remington 1100 Tactical Shotgun in 12-gauge—holds eight 2 3 ⁄ 4" rounds in the tube. A combat shotgun is a shotgun issued by militaries for warfare. [1] The earliest shotguns specifically designed for combat were the trench guns or trench shotguns issued in ...
The U.S. designation of the basic weapon was 75 mm Gun M1897. [27] There were 480 American 75 mm field gun batteries (over 1,900 guns) on the battlefields of France in November 1918. [28] Manufacture of the French 75 by American industry began in the spring of 1918 and quickly built up to an accelerated pace. [28]
They were designated for use as trench guns, riot guns, and training guns. Slightly over 45,000 of these guns were produced during the war. 4. Ithaca 37 ©Public Domain / Wikimedia Commons.
F1 Major items, small arms, automatic gun, trench mortar, and field artillery sighting equipment, and fire control instruments; F2 Major items, harbor defense, railway, and antiaircraft artillery sighting equipment, and fire-control instruments; F3 Items not authorized for general issue; F4 Rule, slide, M1917 – Parts and equipment
The Browning Automatic Rifle, or BAR, was the standard light machine gun of the U.S. military throughout WWII. Typically chambered for .30-06 ammunition and weighing between 13 and 24 pounds, BARs ...
A competing universal turret design to the M97 put forward by Emerson Electric, the XM120 could be fitted with a number of weapons including the M60C 7.62×51mm machine gun, M134 Minigun, M197 20 mm three barreled cannon, XM188 30 mm three barreled cannon, and was in fact tested with the XM140 30 mm cannon.
More than 800 people have lost their lives in jail since July 13, 2015 but few details are publicly released. Huffington Post is compiling a database of every person who died until July 13, 2016 to shed light on how they passed.