5.7 cm Maxim-Nordenfelt
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The 5.7 cm Maxim-Nordenfelt "Canon de caponnière" was a fortress gun and infantry gun developed during the 1880s in Britain which was sold to Belgium and later produced under license by the Cockerill
A captured 5.7 cm Maxim-Nordenfeldt gun being inspected.
A captured German 5.7 cm Maxim-Nordenfelt gun with destroyed shield. Meaulte-Albert Road after the Battle of the Somme.
Captured guns in a depot.
A Belgian casemate gun recaptured by American troops.
Battle of Cambrai (1917)
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The Battle of Cambrai was a British attack in the First World War, followed by the biggest German counter-attack against the British Expeditionary Force since 1914. The town of Cambrai, in the départe
5.7 cm Maxim-Nordenfelt
…were also mounted on captured male Mark IV tanks as most of their original crews stripped them off their guns after abandoning them during the Battle of Cambrai. The Germans also mounted a number of guns on central-pivot mounts on flatbed truck chassis to act as mobile anti-tank guns. Fort d'Andoy…
German soldiers recovering a British Mark IV tank
Cambrai area, 1917
Cambrai salient north, 1917
The bridge at Masnières, collapsed by the weight of a Mark IV tank