This action led by Captain Anuj Nayyar resulted in killing nine enemy soldiers and destruction of three medium machine gun positions of the enemy.
42.
From March 1941, some pillbox embrasures were fitted with a Turnbull mount : this was a metal frame that supported a medium machine gun.
43.
The actual practice of using medium machine guns in different roles dates back to World War I, whatever the name given by different countries.
44.
Time and again the infantry were held up by heavy medium machine gun and small arms fire from bunkers not seen by the tanks.
45.
The use of medium machine guns to replace other types would later be called a General Purpose Machine Gun by the Belgians in the 1950s.
46.
Most Indian forces were withdrawn to established positions in Walong, while a company supported by mortars and medium machine guns remained to cover the retreat.
47.
The intensity of firing was lower along the international border, where the two sides fired rifles and small and medium machine guns, the officers said.
48.
Tests included moving to a firing point, firing an M240 medium machine gun at targets up to 800 meters away, and then leaving the area.
49.
Attempts to outflank the bunkers were answered with heavy fire from a Japanese medium machine gun and another man was killed and three more wounded.
50.
Every ( Defence ) CAMELEON base vehicle is fitted with a minimum medium machine gun mounting system to provide the vehicle crew with a self-defence capability.
