Tim,
No, I actually mean the use of massed and placed machine guns in the first
world war - which was truly the first mechanized war.  An entire generation of
German, French, Russian, English and British Commonweatlth boys were shot down
by these guns

Tim McShane wrote:

>      Greg:
>
>      Doesn't the machine gun go back to the 1860s and the American Civil
>      War in the form of the Gatling Gun?  Or do you mean sub-machine guns,
>      like the 'Tommy'?
>
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>      Tim McShane
>      Curatorial Assistant, Parks Canada
>      (also, Co-Chair of the Museum Division, Arrow 2000 Project)
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> Subject: Re: Your TOP EVENT / DECISION that shaped the 20th Century
> Author:  Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> (Greg Koos
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> Date:    1/30/99 9:34 PM
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>  The machine gun and anti-biotics - The power to take life and the power to
>  give life.
>  Both were associated with world wars.
>  Greg Koos