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    Quote Originally Posted by MG1918 View Post
    More 08/15 - I am still looking for certain items if anybody knows of a source.
    I haven't seen any offered for sale recently.



    Quote Originally Posted by browningautorifleicon View Post
    It also keeps the gun from coming back to fight you again...
    There was a tendency for some of the operators sent back as PoWs' to revert to combatant status on the way if given the chance.

    After that became known fewer were sent back.

    Quote Originally Posted by Ovidio View Post
    Hi MG1918,

    I happened to read this thread thanks to your refreshing it and was a bit surprised by the statement that the gun was unpopular. I'm not arguing that for total lack of competence in the issue, but being a "half German" (Italianicon blood with German education), I have always heard a very interesting and at first for me incomprehensible way of saying in Germanyicon. When something is extremely simple, so simple that anyone can grasp or do it, they still say nullachtfünfzehn for it, which is exactly the German pronunciation for 08/15. As a kid I really could not understand it, so I asked and received this exact explanation. That gun was so simple, that it remained as a way of saying in the German language.
    Just as my little bit of trivial info about this topic, with absolutely no intention to doubt about your statement because, as already written above, I don't have any deep knowledge about that weapon, just this cultural leftover from WWI.
    Have a nice day.
    I'll have to try that out on some German friends!

    And in a Frenchicon a "Beresina" is still a great disaster. Though they've forgotten that it was only thanks to the Dutch engineers that it was not a complete disaster!
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    Seeking items for the German MG08, MG08/15. LMG08/15 & T Gewehr.

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    The relatively comfy and casual eastern front?
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    Seeking items for the German MG08, MG08/15. LMG08/15 & T Gewehr.

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    MG08/15

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    Again squad of 5 plus a medic!

    Seeking items for the German MG08, MG08/15. LMG08/15 & T Gewehr.

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    Night sight or muzzle cover on the left hand rifle?
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    MG Postcards

    Not the best of photos to determine Surpmil. Just to add some colour to the threads.
    Attachment 115317Attachment 115318Attachment 115319

    Seeking items for the German MG08, MG08/15. LMG08/15 & T Gewehr.

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