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World War 1: Great War
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In the trenches of the First World War, the 'Great War', the machine gun was queen of the battlefield. In all the major battles - Somme, Ypres, Vimy, Arras, Verdun - it was the machine gun which could decimate whole battalions and which changed the face of warfare.
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The machine gun, more than any other weapon, dominated the battlefields of World War One. They were first used in the American Civil War but during the Great War came into their own. Machine guns were effective killing tools, firing up to 600 bullets a minute. But on the negative side, they weighed up to 60kg, and so were ill-suited to infantry troops who needed to launch speedy attacks.
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