Dutch ARmy exercise with Lewis MG, short before the War

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Dutch Army

Caption from Internet source: Slovak Home Army troops man a 20mm kulomet vz.36 light anti-aircraft gun. This piece was manufactured in Switzerland. It could fire at the maximum range of 3,300 feet (height) and could fire 830 rounds per minute. It was manufactured between 1930 and 1938.

Slovak 20mm Gun

Ethiopian boy soldier poses with his rifle, wearing a captured Italian officer's cap, Second Italo-Abyssian War, 1935.  Ethiopian rulers were not overly inclined to refuse any offer of help received, then or in earlier conflicts.  It was not lack of fighting spirit, but of modern equipment, training and organisation that contributed to the defeat of the Ethiopian armies by the Italian invaders in this war.  Best regards, JR.