The Eighth Route Army used aircraft machine guns to attack Japanese strongholds

The Eighth Route Army used aviation machine guns to attack Japanese strongholds

During the eight years of the Anti-Japanese War, the Eighth Route Army used captured Type 92 heavy machine guns and tilt-head machine guns, as well as Czech light machine guns and Maxim heavy machine guns Waiting for a series of machine guns equipped with their own machine guns. For these machine guns, we can often see them in anti-Japanese dramas or movies, but we have never seen the Eighth Route Army use aviation machine guns. Aviation machine guns are generally equipped on aircraft, and only aviation or airborne troops can use aviation machine guns. Strangely, in one battle, the Eighth Route Army actually used aircraft machine guns to attack the Japanese stronghold.

This was during the Battle of Fangezhuang. The Eighth Route Army was firing heavily at the Japanese stronghold with aircraft machine guns. The photographer followed closely and took this photo. The Eighth Route Army set up its machine gun position behind a low wall. There were dense trees around the machine gun position as cover. It was difficult for the Japanese troops in the stronghold to discover this machine gun position. At this moment, an Eighth Route Army soldier was shooting violently at the Japanese stronghold with an aircraft machine gun. Where did this aviation machine gun come from? What type of machine gun? Please look at the picture below:

Beside this machine gun position, there are many Eighth Route Army soldiers standing responsible for guarding and protecting this machine gun position. From the photo, let’s take a look at the rifle equipped by this Eighth Route Army soldier. The bayonet of this rifle is very long, and it can be seen at a glance that it is the bayonet of a captured Japanese Type 38 rifle. The bayonet of the Type 38 rifle is about 30 centimeters long, which is very suitable for bayonet fighting in close combat. It can be seen that the weapons and equipment in the hands of these Eighth Route Army soldiers were basically seized from the Japanese army, and they were all "Japanese-style mechanized" equipment. So, where did the aviation machine gun in this photo come from? Its model must be carefully analyzed to determine its origin. Please look at the picture below

When we zoom in closer, we can see what this aviation machine gun really looks like by enlarging the photo. Its appearance is completely different from other heavy machine guns. It is different from the Type 92 heavy machine gun and Maxim heavy machine gun that we usually see in TV series. Therefore, the author speculates that this machine gun may be an American aviation machine gun. Machine gun, but where did this aviation machine gun come from? This Eighth Route Army soldier is also carrying a Japanese steel helmet. This is a Japanese Type 30 steel helmet. There is a layer of anti-counterfeiting cloth on the outside of the helmet. Therefore, everyone thinks that this aviation machine gun should have been surrendered from a Japanese aircraft. So, what is the firepower of this aviation machine gun?

From the Japanese bunker, we can see that the aircraft machine guns have made two deep bullet holes in the bunker. Judging from the photos, the bunker must have been penetrated, and all the Japanese soldiers inside were probably wiped out. Thick smoke was already rising inside the bunker, and there was no sign of any counterattack. On the wall next to it, we also saw the remaining Japanese barbed wire. It was the first time I saw the Eighth Route Army using an aircraft machine gun to attack a Japanese bunker. Where this aircraft machine gun came from, I am afraid only the photographer of this photo knows. In short, this photo is very precious, thank you to the photographer for taking this photo worth collecting for us.