British para ammo
Posted: Tue May 10, 2011 7:38 pm
From The Pegasus & Orne Bridges, Neil Barber (2009) p118 describing the D-Day drop by 6th Abn Div:
Also from the same reference (p303) describing an airborne MMG Plt:
This would suggest that at D-Day and probably Arnhem an airborne Vickers MMG should have 2750 rounds as standard rather than the current 2000 as modelled in the game.
Regards
Tim
Private Frank Gleeson, 'C' Company:
I had 200 rounds of rifle ammunition strapped around my chest and waist. ...
Also from the same reference (p303) describing an airborne MMG Plt:
A Vickers MMG platoon comprised one officer and forty men, and was broken down as follows: Platoon HQ: officeer, batman platoon sergeant, wireless operator and range taker. Two sections, each eighteen men that included a section comander (a Sergeant) and a second in comand (Lance Sergeant). Each section had two detachments that had a Number One (carrying the tripod), a Number Two (carrying the gun) and a Number Three (carrying the condenser can which turned the steam back into water, plus a liner of ammunition) and five ammunition carriers , each carrying two liners. A liner was an aluminium case which was pre-fille with 250 rounds.
This would suggest that at D-Day and probably Arnhem an airborne Vickers MMG should have 2750 rounds as standard rather than the current 2000 as modelled in the game.
Regards
Tim