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unusual facts about machine gunner



Klaus Bargsten

Ray Lankheim, a machine gunner of PC-565 had his 20 mm trained on this lone survivor of the crew as Bargsten was swimming for his life.


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Arthur Guy Empey

He left the United States at the end of 1915 frustrated at its neutrality in the conflict at that point and travelled to London, England, where he joined the 1st London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers), Territorial Force, of the British Army, going on to serve with it in the 56th (London) Infantry Division on the Western Front as a bomber and a machine-gunner.

Paul Travis

A few months later he was sent to France, to a base outside Le Mans, where he trained as a machine gunner.

Valentin Schweiger

In 2012 he had a small role in his fathers film Schutzengel, he played the machine gunner at the end of the film shoothing at the house.