The Black Battalion (Cerný prapor)

The Black Battalion (1958)

The Black Battalion (original: Cerný prapor) is a 1958 Czech War film featuring Jaroslav Mareš and Hannjo Hasse.

The following guns were used in the 1958 Czechoslovak film The Black Battalion:

MP40

In service the French foreign legion has occurred also at the MP40 submachine gun.

MP40 - 9mm.

Legionnaire shoots from MP40 at the Vietnamese villagers.

Legionnaire Peter (František Peterka) in fight with guerrillas rescued by exact dose from submachine gun Václav´s life.

Sgt. Storch (Kurt Oligmüller) with a legionaries armed MP40 submachine guns.

Sten

To fight in the jungle was Sten used by both sides of Indochina´s war.

Sten Mk II - 9x19mm.

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The commander Ketham (Zdenek Kryzánek) was very fond of the Sten submachine gun.

VPN soldier equipped with a Sten submachine gun mowed down legionaries of hiding in the bushes.

Legionaries are moved through in the jungle with submachine guns Sten and MP40.

M1 Carbine

The legionaires also was used a U.S. M1 Carbine of various types.

M1 Carbine - .30 Carbine

The legionnaire hastily leaving the battlefield with a rifle on strap.

M1 Carbine - .30 Carbine

Václav Malý (Jaroslav Mareš) to way through the jungle with a M1A1 Carbine.

After return from a combat hang his rifle an at the bed.

MAS-38

MAS-38 Submachine gun - 7.65mm.

Václav (Jaroslav Mareš) consist ​​MAS-38 submachine gun for the commander Wolf.

New commander Wolf (Hannjo Hasse) with his submachine gun in hand.

Training Grenade

The legionnaires use what look like modified Great War Italian Pineapple grenades. France purchased many Grenades from Italy during WW1 and started building their own after a while. Though this film takes place in the post-WW2 years, the production seemed to use Italian Pineapple style training grenades, to impersonate French F1s or American Mk IIs.

Legionnaire hung with “Pineapple” grenades in his belt.

This a same type hand grenade was equipped also soldier VPN.

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Legionnaire Petr (František Peterka) is addition equipped with a submachine gun also by pair of the grenades.