Nov 29: Firing through the propeller disk area: Airborne-MGs 08 and 08/15Despite the technically well-engineered Parabellum machine gun, the use of machine guns positioned to fire over the propeller arc…
Halen 11 - German Jaeger's Attack 30925 Hours. An SHQ envoy handed de Witte an envelope:The Mixed Brigade of the 1st Belgian Army Divisionwill will, assembled near Sint-Margriete-Houtem, received the…
Halen 15 - Probing1100 Hours. The German Jäger had not crossed the Gete Bridge at first because they feared the barricade and the brewery were still occupied. They soon determined…
Halen 14 - German Jaeger's Consolidate The gate of the Wauters Brewery, which was the width of a cart, was used to provisionally connect both riverbanks to allow the follow-on German…
Halen 13 - German Jaeger's Attack 5 As Van Overstraeten stated in 1964, Capt.-Commandant Tasnier had confirmed to him "two squadrons of Guides occupied Velpen and that the Lancers' right…
Halen 12 - German Jaeger's Attack 4 One of de Witte's staff officers, Van Overstraeten, was to play a leading role in the battle and reported his recollections in 1964. He…
Halen 10 - German Jaeger's Attack 2 0810 Hours. At the Gete River bridge, the 3rd Company/Cy Battalion at the railroad station fired on a German reconnaissance patrol. A handwritten report…
Dec 6: Forgotten machine-guns I: Bergmann old model and new model MGs Very early on in the procurement of machine guns, the German Army decided on the Maxim system and set…
Halen 9 - German Jaeger's Attack 10300 Hours. A telephone call was received by the Belgian Cavalry Division Staff. "From Herk came the message that twelve German cavalrymen had crossed…
Nov 15: Light machine-guns desperately needed: the machine-gun crisis of 1915 and the lMG 08/15It was Robert Watson-Watt, Winston Churchill’s scientific advisor, who said: “Give me the third best technology.…