Master Box 3597 Vickers Machine Gun Team (North Africa 1940-1943)

Name: Vickers Machine Gun Team (North Africa 1940-1943)
Brand: Master Box
SKU: mbx3597
Price: 16.88 GBP
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Vickers Machine Gun Team (North Africa 1940-1943) - Image 1

Scale: 1:35

Manufacturer: Master Box

Product code: mbx3597

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Manufacturer	Master Box
Product code	mbx3597
Weight:	0.12 kg
Ean:	4820113080524
Scale	1:35
Added to catalog on:	25.1.2013
Tags:	British-World-War-II-Machinegun-Crew Vickers-Machine-Gun

During World War II, several dozen divisions were formed as part of the British Army, and at the end of the war they served in its ranks about 2.9 million people. In this one of the most important armies of the Second World War, in terms of numbers, the most important element was, of course, the infantry. The Standard British Infantry Division in 1939 was pretty well saturated with light and heavy machine guns, and at the start of the war it numbered approximately 13,900 officers and soldiers. Each British infantry team had a hand machine gun in stock, and such weapons were also assigned to divisional sapper units and other divisions - especially reconnaissance units. However, as the war progressed, the saturation of machine guns grew, and the 1944 infantry division already had (in addition to the machine gun ranks from the team up) a battalion of 7.7 mm Vickers medium machine guns consisting of 36 rifles. It can be estimated that at that time the British division was equipped with approx. 1,250 light machine guns, approx. 6,500 machine carbines and 40 medium machine guns. The basic types of machine guns of the British infantry in 1939-1945 were, among others: the Bren machine gun, the Vickers heavy machine gun, but also the Sten submachine gun.

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