Comments by "ZGryphon" (@ZGryphon) on "Heavy Machine Guns of the Great War" video.

  1. "A pom pom is an excellent weapon when you are using it but a horrid thing when the other chap has got it." - Sgt. P.C. Jonas, 43rd (Suffolk) Company Imperial Yeomanry, on his experience in the 1899-1902 South African (or Second Boer) War; quoted in Stephen M. Miller's Volunteers on the Veld. Jonas was talking about the Maxim-Nordenfeld QF 1-pounder autocannon, but the principle is similar; the Second Boer War was British forces' first taste of what a war against an enemy with even approximate technological parity would be like. Unfortunately, it seems Lord Kitchener et al. learned few lessons from the experience.
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  2. "Why would they want to do that?" What, you've never been bored? Never had a long night? Never had a lot of cabinets to put up?
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