Guinny_Ire
06-28-2002, 02:52 PM
http://home.attbi.com/~americanfirearmpage/MAS36.htm
http://www.geocities.com/milsurpunderground/French.html
http://souvenirsas.ifrance.com/souvenirsas/Armement.htm
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http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/Barracks/9312/weapons.html
http://g.lacoste.free.fr/l'algerie.htm
L E 4th Zouaves will finish his career in Algeria with the independence of this one, it was normal to treat in the last the equipment of the Zouave in Algeria. On the behaviour suggested, the jacket is model 1947/52, it closes by 5 buttons under band, the 6éme is useful only when the climate requires it. Moreover it has 2 pockets of chest with reduction and 2 pockets lower than bellows. The size is tightened by a sliding cordonnet. The trousers are mle 1947/54, it has 2 apparent buttons on the belt, 2 pockets of hips and finally two pockets "cargo liner" on the level of the thighs. The knees are protected by a part from fabric, the bottom of the trousers to tighten itself little thanks to buttoned legs. The chèche is camouflaged mle. P our the individual equipment, the cartridge pouches are mle 45 out of fawn-coloured leather, it is armed with FARMHOUSE 36. Carried with the belt, the gourde mle 1952, a bill hook and finally on its back a bag Bergamo. The escutcheon of troop mle 1945 is carried by our Zouave on the chest, it acts without any doubt of a model imagination bought either to the hearth, or in the Master tailor of the regiment.
Ref 1170. Ref 1169 The French used three different bolt action rifle systems in the 20th
Century. The Lebel (Fusil Mle.1886 M.93) was a longish (1307mm) tube-fed 8mm rifle with
a triangular bayonet with a normal handguard (nicknamed "Rosalie" for some reason).
This rifle was issued to Metropolitan French troops in WW I. Colonial troops were
issued the Mannlicher-Berthier (Fusil Mle.1907) which was the same length as the Mle.1886,
but held only three cartridges in its magazine. However it was easier to reload rapidly, and
a five shot version (Fusil Mle.1916)was introduced in WW I. The MAS 36 was a postwar (1936)
Mauser-type rifle in a new cartridge, the 7.5. It had a unique bayonet that was carried inside
the rifle below the barrel. (See http://www.netaphore.com/guns/french_m36_home_us.html for a
photo.) MAS is an acronym for "Manufacture d'Armes de Saint-Etienne", the arsenal that designed
it. Short versions of the Lebel and Mannlicher-Berthier rifles also exist, as existing rifles
were modified for WW II. The MAS 36 was 1076 mm long.
LER
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Ref 1171. Ref 1170 - The easiest way to visualize distinguish a MAS 36 from either a Lebel
or a Mannlicher-Berthier was the the bolt of the MAS 36 is bent down and canted
forward at about a 45 degree angle, the only such design in the world. On both the
earlier rifles, the bolt sticks straight out.
http://oldrifles.com/French.htm
http://www.geocities.com/milsurpunderground/French.html
http://souvenirsas.ifrance.com/souvenirsas/Armement.htm
first line
http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/Barracks/9312/weapons.html
http://g.lacoste.free.fr/l'algerie.htm
L E 4th Zouaves will finish his career in Algeria with the independence of this one, it was normal to treat in the last the equipment of the Zouave in Algeria. On the behaviour suggested, the jacket is model 1947/52, it closes by 5 buttons under band, the 6éme is useful only when the climate requires it. Moreover it has 2 pockets of chest with reduction and 2 pockets lower than bellows. The size is tightened by a sliding cordonnet. The trousers are mle 1947/54, it has 2 apparent buttons on the belt, 2 pockets of hips and finally two pockets "cargo liner" on the level of the thighs. The knees are protected by a part from fabric, the bottom of the trousers to tighten itself little thanks to buttoned legs. The chèche is camouflaged mle. P our the individual equipment, the cartridge pouches are mle 45 out of fawn-coloured leather, it is armed with FARMHOUSE 36. Carried with the belt, the gourde mle 1952, a bill hook and finally on its back a bag Bergamo. The escutcheon of troop mle 1945 is carried by our Zouave on the chest, it acts without any doubt of a model imagination bought either to the hearth, or in the Master tailor of the regiment.
Ref 1170. Ref 1169 The French used three different bolt action rifle systems in the 20th
Century. The Lebel (Fusil Mle.1886 M.93) was a longish (1307mm) tube-fed 8mm rifle with
a triangular bayonet with a normal handguard (nicknamed "Rosalie" for some reason).
This rifle was issued to Metropolitan French troops in WW I. Colonial troops were
issued the Mannlicher-Berthier (Fusil Mle.1907) which was the same length as the Mle.1886,
but held only three cartridges in its magazine. However it was easier to reload rapidly, and
a five shot version (Fusil Mle.1916)was introduced in WW I. The MAS 36 was a postwar (1936)
Mauser-type rifle in a new cartridge, the 7.5. It had a unique bayonet that was carried inside
the rifle below the barrel. (See http://www.netaphore.com/guns/french_m36_home_us.html for a
photo.) MAS is an acronym for "Manufacture d'Armes de Saint-Etienne", the arsenal that designed
it. Short versions of the Lebel and Mannlicher-Berthier rifles also exist, as existing rifles
were modified for WW II. The MAS 36 was 1076 mm long.
LER
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Ref 1171. Ref 1170 - The easiest way to visualize distinguish a MAS 36 from either a Lebel
or a Mannlicher-Berthier was the the bolt of the MAS 36 is bent down and canted
forward at about a 45 degree angle, the only such design in the world. On both the
earlier rifles, the bolt sticks straight out.
http://oldrifles.com/French.htm