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M. M1895 Colt–Browning machine gun. M1917 Browning machine gun. M1918 Browning automatic rifle. Madsen machine gun. Maxim gun.
The operation included death marches, looting, torture and massacres against the civilian population. [ 96 ][ 97 ] between 1914 and 1922, and for the whole of Anatolia, there are academic estimates of a death toll ranging from 300,000 to 750,000. [ 98 ][ 99 ][ 100 ] Orphaned Assyrian refugees in Qajar Iran, 1918.
Blade and tangent leaf. The Lewis gun (or Lewis automatic machine gun or Lewis automatic rifle) is a First World War–era light machine gun. Designed privately in the United States though not adopted there, the design was finalised and mass-produced in the United Kingdom, [ 4 ] and widely used by troops of the British Empire during the war.
Berthier M1911 machine gun [ 7 ] (Water cooled version) Caldwell M1915. Darne M1916 machine gun. De Knight M1902/17 [ 7 ] DWM Parabellum MG 13 [ 13 ] (A combination of water cooled version and air cooled version) Fokker-Leimberger M1916 machine gun. Johnston D1918 [ 14 ] Knötgen M1912 machine gun.
Chenogne massacre. The Chenogne massacre was a war crime committed by members of the 11th Armored Division, an American combat unit, near Chenogne, Belgium, on January 1, 1945, during the Battle of the Bulge. According to eyewitness accounts, an estimated 80 German prisoners of war were massacred by their American captors; the prisoners were ...
The MG 08 (Maschinengewehr 08) is a heavy machine gun (HMG) which served as the standard HMG of the Imperial German Army during World War I. It was an adaptation of Hiram Maxim 's 1884 Maxim gun design, and was produced in a number of variants during the war. The MG 08 also saw service during World War II in the infantry divisions of the German ...
On 10 June 1944, four days after D-Day, the village of Oradour-sur-Glane in Haute-Vienne in Nazi-occupied France was destroyed when 643 civilians, including non-combatant men, women, and children, were massacred by a German Waffen-SS company as collective punishment for Resistance activity in the area including the capture and subsequent execution of a close friend of Waffen-SS ...
United States war crimes. The United States Armed Forces and its members have violated the law of war after the signing of the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907 and the signing of the Geneva Conventions. The United States prosecutes offenders through the War Crimes Act of 1996 as well as through articles in the Uniform Code of Military Justice ...