Courtesy to Yith for the find.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pi5_fM379yc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXjRFKSYQIQ
Superb clips!
In the first video at 1'34" it looks like they're using a Vickers. Might just be a trick of the light.
US did use Vickers throughout the war, although they were phased out by the .30cal slowly throughout the war.
It's def. a vickers, you can see the water cooler pipe and iconic mount they sat on
Steve, 2nd vid... 1:05 close up of what looks like Corcorans to me.
Nice!
I was concentrating on their feet too. Seems to be Corcorans, buckle boots and and some sort of short gaitor only?
The short gaitors may be leggings with the trousers severely bloused over them.
It doesn't look like it - no one has anything on their calves at all and that would be a hell of a blousing to get the trouser leg that low. Did they cut them down perhaps?
It is possible they are cut down a bit... but they're certainly bloused a bit!
In the first video at 1'34" it looks like they're using a Vickers. Might just be a trick of the light.
Looks like a Browning M1917 to me, which is what its be far more likely to be.
Agreed, without doubt an M1917 browning mg. Not big enough to be a Vickers.
US did use Vickers throughout the war
That's something I have never heard of. What do you base it on?
They had them in the early part of their involvement in WW1 but never heard of them in WW2.
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In the first video at 1'34" it looks like they're using a Vickers. Might just be a trick of the light.
Looks like a Browning M1917 to me, which is what its be far more likely to be.
Yes, my historic knowledge of guns is very limited. My brain is filled with other things....and I can't be bothered!! 
Steve, 2nd vid... 1:05 close up of what looks like Corcorans to me.
Oh yeah. And at 0'57".
Also at 1'27" in the third video I'm pretty sure that a there's a black/Asian German prisoner. He's quite short and in between two other white guys.
without doubt an M1917 browning mg
Interestingly that's what I meant, meaning they used that one throughout most of the war... 
oo, very nice
Also at 1'27" in the third video I'm pretty sure that a there's a black/Asian German prisoner. He's quite short and in between two other white guys.
A lot of the Axis forces defending the coastline were conscripts from the east, including from places like Azerbaijan so I would suspect he is from such a unit.
oo, very nice
Also at 1'27" in the third video I'm pretty sure that a there's a black/Asian German prisoner. He's quite short and in between two other white guys.
A lot of the Axis forces defending the coastline were conscripts from the east, including from places like Azerbaijan so I would suspect he is from such a unit.
Interesting to see them mixed with the white soldiers though. It seems America's segregation only went as far as their own army.
Interesting to see them mixed with the white soldiers though. It seems America's segregation only went as far as their own army.
American jails mixed black and white at that time, so I suppose it's just an extension of that.
