Machine gun nest
- Title
- Machine gun nest
- LC Subject
- Armed Forces Soldiers
- Description
- When in action the gun is fired as shown here. It is not aimed at the same point while firing but is moved up or down or from side to side. If it were held in the one position it would shoot the same man ten or more times while he was falling down — a useless waste of good ammunition, when a sweeping series of shots would mow down the front rank of the advancing column. The guns are fired in bursts of 20 or 40 seconds between bursts for changing the cartridge belts can be fired before the gun becomes so hot that a stoppage for cooling is necessary.
- Work Type
- lantern slides
- Date
- 1900/1940
- Identifier
- P217:01:031
- Rights
- In Copyright
- Local Collection Name
- Visual Instruction Department Lantern Slides, 1900-1940 (P 217)
- Type
- Image
- Format
- image/tiff
- Set
- OSU Special Collections & Archives Research Center
- Primary Set
- OSU Special Collections & Archives Research Center
- Is Part Of
- Set 1 - Making the American Army
- Institution
- Oregon State University