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[[File:ColtM1917watercooled.jpg|thumb|right|400px|Colt version of the Browning M1917 water-cooled machine gun - .30-06]]
 
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The Browning 1917 .30 caliber machine gun is the immediate predecessor of the [[Browning M1919]]. This weapon saw use from the final days of World War I, throughout the duration of World War II as well as both the Korean and Vietnam wars due in large part to its reliability and usefulness in the sustained fire role (made possible by the water cooling jacket surrounding the barrel).  
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The '''Browning 1917''' .30 caliber machine gun is the immediate predecessor of the [[Browning M1919]]. This weapon saw use from the final days of World War I, throughout the duration of World War II as well as both the Korean and Vietnam wars due in large part to its reliability and usefulness in the sustained fire role (made possible by the water cooling jacket surrounding the barrel).
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In 1901, John Moses Browning filed US Patent 678937 for an automatic recoil loader. The construction found little favor with the then US military. The M1917 was basically an evolution of this patent. The Browning M1917 is a water-cooled machine gun. Air-cooled experimental weapons led after the First World War to the lighter M1919, which was built mechanically the same. The Browning MG M1917 externally resembles the [[Maxim]] machine gun, has like this belt feeder and both are short recoil recoilers of the barrel lock system in the housing. Nevertheless, they are completely different mechanically. The Maxim has a toggle-lock action lock similar to that of the [[Luger P08]], while the Browning MG lock and barrel are locked by a steel block. The Browning M1917 is slightly lighter than the Maxim and just as reliable. The [[Browning M1918]] is a further development Aircraft service.
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The M1917Ar variant is an updated variant, developed in the 1930s. Recognizable by the bottom plate, which had side flanges and a positive locking top cover hinge pin.
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In 1930, Poland adopted the [[Ckm wz.30]], a clone of the M1917.
  
 
'''The Browning M1917 machine gun can be seen in the following films used by the following actors:'''
 
'''The Browning M1917 machine gun can be seen in the following films used by the following actors:'''
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!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="50"|'''Date'''
 
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| ''[[Wings]]'' |||| WWI American soldiers || || 1927
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| ''[[Wings]]'' |||| WWI American soldiers || M1917 || 1927
 
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|''[[Bataan]]''|| || || ||1943
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|''[[Bataan]]''|| || U.S. Soldiers || M1917A1 ||1943
 
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| ''[[Fighting Seabees, The|The Fighting Seabees]]'' ||  || US Marine  ||  || 1944
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| ''[[Fighting Seabees, The|The Fighting Seabees]]'' ||  || U.S. Marine  || M1917A1 || 1944
 
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|''[[Back to Bataan]]''|| || || ||1945
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|''[[Back to Bataan]]''|| || Philippine guerrilla fighters || M1917A1  ||1945
 
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| ''[[Halls of Montezuma]]''|| [[Richard Hylton]] || Conroy || || 1951
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| ''[[Halls of Montezuma]]''|| [[Richard Hylton]] || Conroy || M1917A1  || 1951
 
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|-
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| ''[[The Steel Helmet]]''|| ||North Korean Army|| ||1951
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| ''[[The Steel Helmet]]''|| ||North Korean Army|| M1917A1  ||1951
 
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|''[[Desert Rats, The|The Desert Rats]]''|| || || German soldiers ||1953
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|''[[Desert Rats, The|The Desert Rats]]''|| || German soldiers || M1917A1; standing for [[Maxim MG08]] ||1953
 
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| ''[[Godzilla (1954)|Godzilla]]''|| || Japanese Defense Forces || ||1954
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| ''[[Godzilla (1954)|Godzilla]]''|| || Japanese Defense Forces || M1917A1 ||1954
 
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|-
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|''[[Merrill's Marauders]]''|| ||the Marauders|| ||1962
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|''[[Merrill's Marauders]]''|| ||the Marauders|| M1917A1 ||1962
 
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| rowspan="2" | ''[[Up to His Ears (Les tribulations d'un Chinois en Chine)]]'' || [[Jean-Paul Belmondo]] || Arthur Lempereur|| rowspan="2" | || rowspan="2" | 1965
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| rowspan="2" | ''[[Up to His Ears (Les tribulations d'un Chinois en Chine)]]'' || [[Jean-Paul Belmondo]] || Arthur Lempereur|| rowspan="2" | M1917A1 || rowspan="2" | 1965
 
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| [[Ursula Andress]] || Alexandrine Pinardel   
 
| [[Ursula Andress]] || Alexandrine Pinardel   
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|  || Nazis and Indians  
 
|  || Nazis and Indians  
 
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| ''[[The Professionals (1966)|The Professionals]]'' || || || || 1966
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| rowspan="2" | ''[[The Professionals (1966)|The Professionals]]'' || [[Frederick Stafford]] || Rico || rowspan="2" | M1917A1; anachronstic for 1917  || rowspan="2" | 1966
 
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| ''[[The Wild Bunch]]'' || || || ||1969
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|  || Mexican soldiers
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| rowspan="5" | ''[[The Wild Bunch]]'' || [[Lee Marvin]] || Tector || rowspan="5" | M1917A1; anachronistic for 1913 and 1916 || rowspan="5" | 1969
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| [[Warren Oates]] || Lyle
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|-
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| [[Emilio Fernández]] || Mapache
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|-
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| [[Jorge Rado]] || Ernst
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|-
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|  || Mexican soldiers
 
|-
 
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| ''[[Rum Runners (Boulevard du Rhum)]]''|| || U. S. Coast Guard || ||1971
 
| ''[[Rum Runners (Boulevard du Rhum)]]''|| || U. S. Coast Guard || ||1971
 
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| rowspan="2" | ''[[Bad Man's River (El hombre de Río Malo)]]'' || [[Aldo Sambrell]] || Canales|| rowspan="2" | || rowspan="2" | 1971
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| rowspan="2" | ''[[Bad Man's River (El hombre de Río Malo)]]'' || [[Aldo Sambrell]] || Canales|| rowspan="2" | acetylene-firing mock-ups || rowspan="2" | 1971
 
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|  || Mexican soldiers
 
|  || Mexican soldiers
 
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| ''[[Soldier of Orange]]''|| || || ||1977
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| ''[[Soldier of Orange]]''|| || Dutch soldiers || M1917A1; standing for [[Schwarzlose Machine Gun Model 07/12|Schwarzlose M. 08/13]] ||1977
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| rowspan="2" | ''[[1941]]'' || [[Dan Aykroyd]] ||Sergeant Tree || rowspan="2" | M1917A1 || rowspan="2" | 1979
 
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| ''[[1941]]''||[[Dan Aykroyd]] ||Sergeant Tree || ||1979
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| || U.S. soldiers
 
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| ''[[Professional, The (1981)|The Professional]]'' || || African prison guards || || 1981
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| ''[[Professional, The (1981)|The Professional]]'' || || African prison guards || M1917A1 || 1981
 
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| ''[[Deal of the Century]]'' || || || Seen in the Gundealer's Room|| 1983
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| ''[[Deal of the Century]]'' || || || M1917A1; Seen in the Gundealer's Room|| 1983
 
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| ''[[Exterminator 2]]'' || || || Mounted on Eastland's truck || 1984
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| ''[[Exterminator 2]]'' || || || M1917A1; Mounted on Eastland's truck || 1984
 
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|''[[Commando]]''|| || ||Iin the hidden armory in||1985
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|''[[Commando]]''|| || ||M1917A1; In the hidden armory in||1985
 
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|''[[Matewan]]''|| ||private detectives||||1987
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|''[[Matewan]]''|| ||private detectives||M1917A1||1987
 
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|''[[Return from the River Kwai]]''|| || || ||1988
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|''[[Return from the River Kwai]]''|| || Miao tribesmen || M1917A1 ||1988
 
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|''[[Farewell To The King]]''|| || || ||1989
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| rowspan="2" | ''[[Farewell To The King]]'' || [[Gerry Lopez]] || Gwai || rowspan="2" | M1917A1 || rowspan="2" | 1989
 
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|''[[Miller's Crossing]]''|| || || ||1990
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| || Headhunter
 
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|''[[Tae Guk Gi]]''|| || || ||2004
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|''[[Miller's Crossing]]''|| || Police || M1917A1 ||1990
 
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|''[[Public Enemies]]''|| || || ||2009
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| rowspan="2" | ''[[Tae Guk Gi]]'' || [[Dong-gun Jang]] || Sgt. Jin-tae Lee || rowspan="2" | M1917A1 || rowspan="2" | 2004
 
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|''[[Spoils of War]]''|| || || ||2009
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| || Soutch Korean soldiers
 
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|''[[71: Into the Fire]]''|| || South Korean soldiers || || 2010
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|''[[Public Enemies]]''|| || U.S. soldiers || Colt Model 1922  ||2009
 
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|''[[Into the White]]''|| ||Norwegian soldiers || ||2012
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|''[[Spoils of War]]''|| || U.S. soldiers || M1917; archive footage ||2009
 
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| ''[[Gallipoli: End of the Road]]'' || || Australian and Turkish soldiers || || 2013
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|''[[71: Into the Fire]]''|| || South Korean soldiers || M1917A1 || 2010
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|''[[Into the White]]''|| ||Norwegian soldiers || Norwegian Colt-Kongsberg M/29 ||2012
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| ''[[Gallipoli: End of the Road]]'' || || Australian and Turkish soldiers || M1917A1; anachronistic || 2013
 
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| ''[[King's Choice, The|The King's Choice]]''|| || Norwegian soldiers || Norwegian Colt M/29 ||2016
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| ''[[King's Choice, The|The King's Choice]]''|| || Norwegian soldiers || Norwegian Colt-Kongsberg M/29 ||2016
 
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| ''[[Mission: Impossible - Season 3|Mission: Impossible]]'' ||  ||  || Colt MG38 mounted on truck, "Nitro" (S03E21)  || 1969
 
| ''[[Mission: Impossible - Season 3|Mission: Impossible]]'' ||  ||  || Colt MG38 mounted on truck, "Nitro" (S03E21)  || 1969
 
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|''[[State Border: Film 5, The]]''||. ||.||. ||1986
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|''[[State Border: Film 5, The|The State Border: Film ]]''|| || U.S. soldiers|| M1917; archive footage ||1986
 
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|''[[Mail Call]]''||. || .||. ||2002-2009
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|''[[Mail Call]]''|| || || M1917; archive footage ||2002-2009
 
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|''[[The Pacific]]''||. ||US Marines||. ||2010
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| rowspan="5" | ''[[The Pacific]]'' || [[James Badge Dale]] || Robert Leckie || rowspan="5" | M1917A1 || rowspan="5" | 2010
 
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|''[[Boardwalk Empire]]''||.||Ku Klux Klan||.||2010-Present
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| [[Jon Bernthal]] ||  Sgt. Manny Rodriguez
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| [[Joshua Bitton]] ||  Sgt. J.P. Morgan
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| [[Jon Seda]] ||  Sgt. John Basilone
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| [[Jon Seda]] ||  U.S. Marines
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| rowspan="5" | ''[[Boardwalk Empire]]'' || [[Stephen Graham]] || Capone || rowspan="5" | M1917A1 || rowspan="5" | 2010 - 2014
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| ||  Ku Klux Klan
 
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|''[[Desperados: Wanted Dead Or Alive]]''|| "Gatling Gun" ||Anachronistic ||2001
 
|''[[Desperados: Wanted Dead Or Alive]]''|| "Gatling Gun" ||Anachronistic ||2001
 
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| ''[[Forgotten Hope 2]]'' || "Browning M1917A1"  || || 2005
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| ''[[Forgotten Hope 2]]'' || "Browning M1917A1"  || M1917A1 || 2005
 
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| ''[[Company of Heroes]]'' || "M1917 Browning Heavy Machine Gun"  || || 2006
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| ''[[Company of Heroes]]'' || "M1917 Browning Heavy Machine Gun"  || M1917A1 || 2006
 
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| ''[[The Darkness]]'' ||  ||  || 2007
 
| ''[[The Darkness]]'' ||  ||  || 2007
 
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| ''[[Red Dead Redemption]]'' || "Browning Gun" || Anachronistic || 2010
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| ''[[Red Dead Redemption]]'' || "Browning Gun" || Anachronistic|| 2010
 
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| ''[[Civilization V]]'' ||  || Introduced in "Gods & Kings" expansion pack (2012) || 2010
 
| ''[[Civilization V]]'' ||  || Introduced in "Gods & Kings" expansion pack (2012) || 2010
 
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| ''[[Red Orchestra 2: Rising Storm]]'' || "M1917 Browning" || || 2013
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| ''[[Red Orchestra 2: Rising Storm]]'' || "M1917 Browning" || M1917A1 || 2013
 
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| ''[[Battlefield 1]]'' || "M1917 MG" || Introduced in "Turning Tides" DLC (2017) || 2016
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| ''[[Battlefield 1]]'' || "M1917 MG" || M1917A1; Introduced in "Turning Tides" DLC (2017), anachronitic || 2016
 
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The Swedish adopted a version of the M1917 under the name "Kulspruta M/1936". The M/1936 was converted into the (then) standard 6.55mm, but the anti-aircraft version used the 8×63mm Bofors (ptr m/32). In the 1970s the remaining M/1936 were converted to the 7.62×51 mm NATO.
 
The Swedish adopted a version of the M1917 under the name "Kulspruta M/1936". The M/1936 was converted into the (then) standard 6.55mm, but the anti-aircraft version used the 8×63mm Bofors (ptr m/32). In the 1970s the remaining M/1936 were converted to the 7.62×51 mm NATO.
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===Film===
 
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Revision as of 10:33, 12 June 2019

Browning M1917 - .30-06
Browning M1917A1 - .30-06. Note the bottom plate.
Browning M1917A1 machine gun with tripod and ammo box - .30-06‎
Colt version of the Browning M1917 water-cooled machine gun - .30-06

The Browning 1917 .30 caliber machine gun is the immediate predecessor of the Browning M1919. This weapon saw use from the final days of World War I, throughout the duration of World War II as well as both the Korean and Vietnam wars due in large part to its reliability and usefulness in the sustained fire role (made possible by the water cooling jacket surrounding the barrel).

In 1901, John Moses Browning filed US Patent 678937 for an automatic recoil loader. The construction found little favor with the then US military. The M1917 was basically an evolution of this patent. The Browning M1917 is a water-cooled machine gun. Air-cooled experimental weapons led after the First World War to the lighter M1919, which was built mechanically the same. The Browning MG M1917 externally resembles the Maxim machine gun, has like this belt feeder and both are short recoil recoilers of the barrel lock system in the housing. Nevertheless, they are completely different mechanically. The Maxim has a toggle-lock action lock similar to that of the Luger P08, while the Browning MG lock and barrel are locked by a steel block. The Browning M1917 is slightly lighter than the Maxim and just as reliable. The Browning M1918 is a further development Aircraft service.

The M1917Ar variant is an updated variant, developed in the 1930s. Recognizable by the bottom plate, which had side flanges and a positive locking top cover hinge pin.

In 1930, Poland adopted the Ckm wz.30, a clone of the M1917.

The Browning M1917 machine gun can be seen in the following films used by the following actors:

Specifications

(1917 - ????)

  • Type: Machine Gun
  • Caliber(s): .30-06 Springfield
  • Weight: 103 lb (47 kg) (gun, tripod, water, and ammunition)
  • Length: 38.5 in (980 mm)
  • Barrel length(s): 24 in (609 mm)
  • Capacity: 250-round fabric belt
  • Fire Modes: Full-Auto

Film

Title Actor Character Note Date
Wings WWI American soldiers M1917 1927
Bataan U.S. Soldiers M1917A1 1943
The Fighting Seabees U.S. Marine M1917A1 1944
Back to Bataan Philippine guerrilla fighters M1917A1 1945
Halls of Montezuma Richard Hylton Conroy M1917A1 1951
The Steel Helmet North Korean Army M1917A1 1951
The Desert Rats German soldiers M1917A1; standing for Maxim MG08 1953
Godzilla Japanese Defense Forces M1917A1 1954
Merrill's Marauders the Marauders M1917A1 1962
Up to His Ears (Les tribulations d'un Chinois en Chine) Jean-Paul Belmondo Arthur Lempereur M1917A1 1965
Ursula Andress Alexandrine Pinardel
OSS 117: Mission for a Killer (Furia à Bahia pour OSS 117) Frederick Stafford Hubert Bonnisseur 1965
Nazis and Indians
The Professionals Frederick Stafford Rico M1917A1; anachronstic for 1917 1966
Mexican soldiers
The Wild Bunch Lee Marvin Tector M1917A1; anachronistic for 1913 and 1916 1969
Warren Oates Lyle
Emilio Fernández Mapache
Jorge Rado Ernst
Mexican soldiers
Rum Runners (Boulevard du Rhum) U. S. Coast Guard 1971
Bad Man's River (El hombre de Río Malo) Aldo Sambrell Canales acetylene-firing mock-ups 1971
Mexican soldiers
Soldier of Orange Dutch soldiers M1917A1; standing for Schwarzlose M. 08/13 1977
1941 Dan Aykroyd Sergeant Tree M1917A1 1979
U.S. soldiers
The Professional African prison guards M1917A1 1981
Deal of the Century M1917A1; Seen in the Gundealer's Room 1983
Exterminator 2 M1917A1; Mounted on Eastland's truck 1984
Commando M1917A1; In the hidden armory in 1985
Matewan private detectives M1917A1 1987
Return from the River Kwai Miao tribesmen M1917A1 1988
Farewell To The King Gerry Lopez Gwai M1917A1 1989
Headhunter
Miller's Crossing Police M1917A1 1990
Tae Guk Gi Dong-gun Jang Sgt. Jin-tae Lee M1917A1 2004
Soutch Korean soldiers
Public Enemies U.S. soldiers Colt Model 1922 2009
Spoils of War U.S. soldiers M1917; archive footage 2009
71: Into the Fire South Korean soldiers M1917A1 2010
Into the White Norwegian soldiers Norwegian Colt-Kongsberg M/29 2012
Gallipoli: End of the Road Australian and Turkish soldiers M1917A1; anachronistic 2013
The King's Choice Norwegian soldiers Norwegian Colt-Kongsberg M/29 2016

Television

Show Title Actor Character Note / Episode Air Date
Mission: Impossible Colt MG38 mounted on truck, "Nitro" (S03E21) 1969
The State Border: Film U.S. soldiers M1917; archive footage 1986
Mail Call M1917; archive footage 2002-2009
The Pacific James Badge Dale Robert Leckie M1917A1 2010
Jon Bernthal Sgt. Manny Rodriguez
Joshua Bitton Sgt. J.P. Morgan
Jon Seda Sgt. John Basilone
Jon Seda U.S. Marines
Boardwalk Empire Stephen Graham Capone M1917A1 2010 - 2014
Ku Klux Klan

Video Game

Game Title Appears as Note Release Date
Desperados: Wanted Dead Or Alive "Gatling Gun" Anachronistic 2001
Forgotten Hope 2 "Browning M1917A1" M1917A1 2005
Company of Heroes "M1917 Browning Heavy Machine Gun" M1917A1 2006
The Darkness 2007
Red Dead Redemption "Browning Gun" Anachronistic 2010
Civilization V Introduced in "Gods & Kings" expansion pack (2012) 2010
Red Orchestra 2: Rising Storm "M1917 Browning" M1917A1 2013
Battlefield 1 "M1917 MG" M1917A1; Introduced in "Turning Tides" DLC (2017), anachronitic 2016

Kulspruta M/1936

Kulspruta M/1936 - 6.5×55mm.
Another view of the Swedish Kulspruta m1936.
This is the 8mm double anti-aircraft configuration.

The Swedish adopted a version of the M1917 under the name "Kulspruta M/1936". The M/1936 was converted into the (then) standard 6.55mm, but the anti-aircraft version used the 8×63mm Bofors (ptr m/32). In the 1970s the remaining M/1936 were converted to the 7.62×51 mm NATO.

Film

Title Actor Character Note Date
The Callup Swedish soldiers 1979
Beyond the Border Martin Wallström Sven Stenstrom 2011
Antti Reini Wille Jarvinen
Swedish soldiers


See Also

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