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German MG Ammo Boxes
HES21
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Posted: Saturday, November 04, 2006 - 01:32 AM UTC
Does anyone have a pictures of some wooden German machine gun ammo boxes that would be seen with/in a well prepared MG42 posistion?

Google images did not help much!

Many thanks,
Harry
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Posted: Saturday, November 04, 2006 - 01:54 AM UTC
Harry,
I have some pics of ammo wooden german ammo cases but they are Kar98 ammo boxes,i dont know if they did wood ammo boxes for Mg42.If you want the images i have PM me with your e-mail and i will send.

Steve
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Posted: Saturday, November 04, 2006 - 02:16 AM UTC
Hi Harry
Try this mate

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=http://wehrmachts.kisten.free.fr/toutes_categories.htm&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dhttp://wehrmachts.kisten.free.fr/toutes_categories.htm%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26sa%3DG



HTH
Andy
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Posted: Saturday, November 04, 2006 - 02:21 AM UTC
Hi Harry,

Check out this site - a complete range of German Containers and Ammo Boxes:

http://wehrmachts.kisten.free.fr/toutes_categories.htm

Cheers

Al
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Posted: Saturday, November 04, 2006 - 02:56 AM UTC
Cheers guys!
What was really useful where the dimensions that where given... very useful indeed!
Steve, my email is not working at the mo, , but if you could show the pictures it would be great!

Thanks,
Harry
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Posted: Monday, November 10, 2008 - 03:47 AM UTC
Btw.: That is basically the same box used in the german Bundeswehr MG3 (aka Rheinmetall MG42/59) the 7.62x51mm variant of the MG42.
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