Browning M1917

Browning M1917A1 - .30-06

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).

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

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Film

Title	Actor	Character	Note	Date
Wings		WWI American soldiers		1927
Bataan				1943
The Fighting Seabees		US Marine		1944
Back to Bataan				1945
Halls of Montezuma	Richard Hylton	Conroy		1951
The Steel Helmet		North Korean Army		1951
The Desert Rats			German soldiers	1953
Godzilla		Japanese Defense Forces		1954
Merrill's Marauders		the Marauders		1962
Up to His Ears (Les tribulations d'un Chinois en Chine)	Jean-Paul Belmondo	Arthur Lempereur		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				1966
The Wild Bunch				1969
Rum Runners (Boulevard du Rhum)		U. S. Coast Guard		1971
Bad Man's River (El hombre de Río Malo)	Aldo Sambrell	Canales		1971
		Mexican soldiers
Soldier of Orange				1977
1941	Dan Aykroyd	Sergeant Tree		1979
The Professional		African prison guards		1981
Exterminator 2			Mounted on Eastland's truck	1984
Commando			Iin the hidden armory in	1985
Matewan		private detectives		1987
Return from the River Kwai				1988
Farewell To The King				1989
Miller's Crossing				1990
Tae Guk Gi				2004
Public Enemies				2009
Spoils of War				2009
71: Into the Fire		South Korean soldiers		2010
Into the White		Norwegian soldiers		2012
Gallipoli: End of the Road		Australian and Turkish soldiers		2013
The King's Choice		Norwegian soldiers	Norwegian Colt M/29	2016

Television

Show Title	Actor	Character	Note / Episode	Air Date
Mission: Impossible			Colt MG38 mounted on truck, "Nitro" (S03E21)	1969
State Border: Film 5, The	.	.	.	1986
Mail Call	.	.	.	2002-2009
The Pacific	.	US Marines	.	2010
Boardwalk Empire	.	Ku Klux Klan	.	2010-Present

Video Game

Game Title	Appears as	Note	Release Date
Desperados: Wanted Dead Or Alive	"Gatling Gun"	Anachronistic	2001
Forgotten Hope 2	"Browning M1917A1"		2005
Company of Heroes	"M1917 Browning Heavy Machine Gun"		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"		2013
Battlefield 1	"M1917 MG"	Introduced in "Turning Tides" DLC (2017)	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.

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

• Browning Arms Company - A list of all firearms manufactured by Browning.