Anzio photo shamelessly ripped from net. Cool pic.

Leftmost COULD be a Lewis AMG, as theorized by 36_Hammon, but I've never seen a stock like that one, not that type of muzzle arrangement...?

Lewis AMG -
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Scratch that... could it be this? Look at the third MG down. Never seen this config of the Lewis before with a wooden forestock and some kind of loop stock attached to the aircraft machine gun spade grip...?

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Did anyone else notice the K98k at hte botton of the pile with the muzzle pointing to the officer's right foot has a 10" cleaning rod screwed into a stock inlet for a 12.5" cleaning rod?

Silly Wehrmacht soldiers were totally trying to screw with the guys over at the K98k forum... lol. Maybe it left the factory this way? (j/k)

All the other k98k's were missing the rods and sight hoods. Probably set aside to make an e-bay killing 60-odd years later.
 
Andurp said:
Blacks in the US Army were with a few exceptions put in non-combat roles, such as supply, truck driving, and more morbid things such as grave details. They were almost always lead by white officers - the white guy in this picture is a Lieutenant, so he's probably in charge of them.

If you read into the subject of the blacks in the US Military during the war, you'll often hear from the some of the more openminded officers who were in charge of the blacks saying that they were great troops who wanted to prove themselves.

It's sad that this was the state of affairs at the time.
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+1 Echo that
 
Of the four Lewis guns in the display, the bottom two were a modified pattern primarily used for the Home Guard, and other second line purposes.
 
tiriaq said:
Of the four Lewis guns in the display, the bottom two were a modified pattern primarily used for the Home Guard, and other second line purposes.
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So then how did a home guard-modified pattern of the Lewis Aircraft Machine Gun variant end up in a pile of scrap captured weaponry at Anzio?
 
Detroit Black Journal did a program several years go in which they interviewed some of Patton's black Tankers.

The men were in their 70s and 80s at the time the film was made, but they were The Real Thing.

Listening to them talk, you got the definite idea that if George Patton turned up on their doorsteps and asked, they would ALL jump in Shermans and go do it again!

Funny attitude...... if Patton didn't like them.

Trouble is that PATTON is not Politically Correct these days, therefore he must be a racist. He was a LOT more broad-minded than he is given credit for being.

Remember, HE was the only guy willing to give a Black man a chance to prove himself.
 
Claven2 said:
So then how did a home guard-modified pattern of the Lewis Aircraft Machine Gun variant end up in a pile of scrap captured weaponry at Anzio?
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Primarily for the Home Guard. A lot of Lewis guns were used for secondary purposes. How that one got to Anzio, who knows? One a ship?
I believe that this variant of the Lewis is described in one of the privately printed weapons manuals used by the home guard. Will try to find it; I think I know where it is. Note the elevated improvised rear sight on the museum specimens; line of sight would clear the aircraft use drum.
 
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Claven2 said:
So then how did a home guard-modified pattern of the Lewis Aircraft Machine Gun variant end up in a pile of scrap captured weaponry at Anzio?
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It is possible that it was supplied to the Italians in World War I - possibly for use as an aircraft observer's gun.

Once WWI was over, it could have been removed from the aircraft (or wherever it was used), stuck in an armory somewhere, and hauled out for service when the Italians joined WWII in 1940.

Remember, in WWI, the Italians were on the ALLIED side.
 
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