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I attach a photo of a Hotchkiss being operated by (or posed with) a French soldier. It has no cooling fins at all. Is this unusal,a special model or what? Answers please.


BTW from the context where I found it the 'Frenchman' may actually be an American volunteer transfered from the foreign legion



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To me it looks like a St Etienne MG. Check this link:

http://www.landships.freeservers.com/stetienne_mg_info.htm



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Thaks Peter
I think this may be the same gun - also being used as a high angle weapon. Was there some attempt to use it as an AA gun?

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It's St. Étienne.

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The guy posed with the gun I think is an American Aviator originally in the FFL I cant say for sure who though at this time.....

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Well here he is but who is he..... E.J.Bouligny... the first American to Volunteer for the French Foreign Legion....

http://legioncavalerie.free.fr/fr/edgard1.htm

and a secound site in English dedicated to this man...

http://edgarbouligny.com/index.html

here the picture is described as at practice but its clearly a posed shot...

http://edgarbouligny.com/FrenchForeignLegion3.html

An entry here too: Creole families of New Orleans...

http://www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/grace-elizabeth-king/creole-families-of-new-orleans-hci/page-22-creole-families-of-new-orleans-hci.shtml

A newspaper article on his life and tragic death....1931

http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=950&dat=19311118&id=GY8LAAAAIBAJ&sjid=11QDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4438,5580952


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-- Edited by Ironsides on Friday 30th of April 2010 12:59:55 PM

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