Original German WWI Maxim MG 08/15 Display Machine Gun - M.A.N NURNBERG 1917 Japanese Army and the 1st and 2nd

and the 1st and 2nd Shropshire Rifle Volunteer Corps became the 1st and 2nd Volunteer Battalions

The new stocking arrangement required a re-think as to how the fore-end was to be fixed

we found a box in the warehouse during our first inventory reorganization in over 12 years

Common nicknames are "pe-pe-sha" from its three-letter prefix and "papasha" (Russian:

Original German WWI Maxim MG 08/15 Display Machine Gun - M.A.N NURNBERG 1917 Japanese Army and the 1st and 2ndOriginal Item: Only One Available. This fine example of the legendary German Maxim Maschinengewehr (Machine Gun) 08 15, known as the MG 08 15. This gun became, by far, the most common German machine gun deployed in World War I (Dolf Goldsmith, 1989) since it reached a full allocation of six guns per company or 72 guns per regiment in 1918. By that time, there were four times as many MG 08 15 light machine guns than heavy MG 08 machine guns in each