Comments by "COL BEAUSABRE" (@colbeausabre8842) on "Doughboy Bringback MP-18,I on the Range" video.

  1. Col John Thompson, "Hold my beer".
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  2. Not a shell at all, an American Soldier of the Great War, after a fried dumpling much beloved by the troops http://www.worldwar1.com/dbc/origindb.htm American infantry in the Hitler War were still l referred to as "doughs" by non-infantrymen such as tankers, The term "GI" didn't become popular until post-war. "Grunt" dates from Viet Nam
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  3. Good to see that Ian is ready to join Das Freikorps https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freikorps fighting the Red Sparticists in the streets of Berlin https://georgy-konstantinovich-zhukov.tumblr.com/image/44386453248 "Unteroffizier, Bayerisches Schutzenkorps (Freikorps von Epp) In the first days of May 1919, after the suppression of the Räterrepublik, a veteran NCO of Bavarian Stosstruppen shows off his squad’s 'wonder weapon’. About 35,000 examples of the 9mm Machine Pistol 1918 (more popularly, Kugelspritz or 'bullet-hose’) were made during the war, and many were issued to the assault battalions. The Bergmann MP 18 was fed by 32-round 'snail’ drum magazines originally developed for the long-barrelled P08/14 'artillery’ pistol; our NCO also has one of these, with its detachable wooden stock attached to the back of the regulation holster, as well as a trench knife (Grabendolch). His M1916 helmet is finished in the camouflage of green, ochre and red-brown segments divided by black lines prescribed in Gen. Lüdendorff’s order of July 7, 1918. The M1915 Bluse is entirely in field-grey, without the collar facing of dark green - a Bavarian peculiarity, as was the NCO collar Tresse in blue and white instead of matt metallic braid. His ribbon of the Iron Cross 2nd Class, a silver Wound Badge, and the badge of a qualified machine gunner on his sleeve testify to his Great War service; he has also added to his left sleeve the badge of the Freikorpsled by Oberst Franz Ritter von Epp. His light field-grey M1917 trousers have the leather knee patches typical of Stosstruppen; puttees, standard issue in 1918, could be of any drab shade between light grey and dark brown." Berlin 1918 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP_18#/media/File:MP_18_Berlin_1919.jpg
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