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Cat skinner is the only warm dude in that photo...but I'd bet not one of those other fellows would trade places with him, seeing where he is headed.
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Plowing through a drift of frozen bodies? Many UN troops who were in the breakout and on vehicles remembered the sensation of bumping over frozen bodies en route. The engineers were vital to keep the route clear. The whole breakout was a massive coordinated military campaign like WWII D - day in reverse.
 
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PFC Raymond J. Bowman. Killed on 18 April 1945 during The Battle of Leipzig.
 
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Staff Sergeant Frank Shoemaker and Private First Class Robert Chamberlin inspect an eight-barrelled Japanese machine gun which was captured on the perimeter of the Kobayashi Line southeast of Manila, Philippines. March 18, 1945.
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Ah yes. The eight-barreled machine gun invented by Toshiro Browning of Utah, Hokkaido. :)

Weird looking muzzle brakes, but are those not your standard 30 cals in a big weird mount? And how do you keep a mess like that fed? It has the look of bored soldiers at play.
 
Dark Alley Dan said:
Ah yes. The eight-barreled machine gun invented by Toshiro Browning of Utah, Hokkaido. :)

Weird looking muzzle brakes, but are those not your standard 30 cals in a big weird mount? And how do you keep a mess like that fed? It has the look of bored soldiers at play.
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Japanese Ho-103 Machine Guns, copies of the Browning but instead chambered in 12.7x81mm. An anti aircraft battery that was changed to an anti soldier role.
 
It's a bad day when you don't learn anything,. Thanks for that! I had no idea the IJA fielded a Browning-pattern HMG.

Still, that eight gun mount looks sketchy. Keeping them firing after you'd run through a belt would be a huge job. One gunner and four loaders, each ambidextrous and hopped up on go-pills...
 
Battle of Fort Dufferin

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Battle For Fort Dufferin In Burma
Armed with machine guns, British Indian Army troops on Pagoda Hill take part in the battle for possession of Fort Dufferin (Mandalay Palace) in Burma (Myanmar) during World War II in March 1945. The fort was held by the Japanese 60th Regiment and eventually captured by the 19th Indian division. Allied forces from the United Kingdom, India, United States and China are currently fighting Japanese Imperial troops as part of the Burma Campaign. (Photo by Reuben Saidman/Popperfoto via Getty Images)
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It seems like they have 2 × ANM2 aircraft mg's, possibly in .303, with improvised ground mounts, and maybe improvised sights? You can see one of them has what looks like spade grips. They wanted lots of metal flying at the Japos.

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Liberation Of Mandalay
British Army observers look down from Pagoda Hill (Mandalay Hill) on the battle for possession of Fort Dufferin (Mandalay Palace), Burma (Myanmar), during World War II, March 1945. The fort was held by the Japanese 60th Regiment and eventually captured by the 19th Indian division. (Photo by Esten/Popperfoto via Getty Images/Getty Images)
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Note the bubba #4 rifle. This is from the Getty archives, I doubt if it is an AI abomination.
 
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