Girls With Guns [VIDEO]
VIDEO
The
machine gun, which so came to dominate and even to personify the battlefields of
World War One, was a fairly primitive device when general war began in August
1914. Machine guns of all armies were largely of the heavy variety and decidedly
ill-suited to portability for use by rapidly advancing infantry troops. Each
weighed somewhere in the 30kg-60kg range - often without their mountings,
carriages and supplies.