M1917 Browning machine gun
The M1917 Browning machine gun is a .30-06 Springfield machine gun created by John Browning. It was used in World War I and in World War II. It is a heavy machine gun that weighed around 100 pounds with the tripod and 42 pounds without it.
It is a water-cooled machine gun, which allowed it to fire for a long period of time without it overheating. The water-cooling tank made it much heavier. During World War II, M1917 was mostly replaced by the M1919 because it was lighter and let soldiers move more quickly, but the M1917 was still used often.
M1917 Browning Machine Gun Media
- Browning fires a Browning 1918.jpg
US Army 2nd Lt. Valmore A. Browning test firing a Browning machine gun. This gun was used in the Argonne Sector.
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Val Browning, the inventor's son, demonstrates the M1917.
- Marines Browning M1917 Cape Gloucester.JPEG
Marines push back a Japanese counterattack during the Battle of Cape Gloucester in 1944.
- Browning M1917 Marine Iwo Jima fixed.jpg
A U.S. Marine firing Browning M1917A1 machine gun during the Battle of Iwo Jima
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A Browning M1917 in action during the Korean War.
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M1917A1 with spare barrel and other issued accessories
- Machinegeweer met waterkoeling, Browning M1917 A1 cal.7.62mm op affuit (2155 047355).jpg
An M1917A1 on tripod mount
- Norwegian Army Colt heavy machine gun at the Narvik front.jpg
Norwegian M/29 in anti-aircraft configuration on the Narvik front, 1940
- Oefeningen met een Browning mitrailleur door de in Suriname gelegerde militairen van het KNIL (2155 036328).jpg
Dutch soldiers of the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army train on the M1917A1.
