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Originally Posted by skunk works
You're right !
I only have one book on WW 1, The World War by John J. Pershing, 1919.
They do have a pic of the "tankdrome" at Cambrai, and one stuck in a ditch.
The barrel fat-ness threw me off, but I see in my picture that it was that fat!
In the one I have there's another skinner "tube" sticking out the side (of the out-cropping/in the middle) on a "ball" joint.
What's that?
That black spot, you can see in the above (Joes) picture?
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The skinny gun in the ball joint of the Males is an Hotchkiss .303 machine gun. Air cooled so it doesn't have the cooling jacket of the Vickers. Some were fitted with Lewis guns instead. Throughout the war the machine guns were very vunerable to shell damage. Armoured shrouds were developed later in the war to protect them.