March or Die: Difference between revisions
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March or Die: Difference between revisions
[[File:March or Die-Mauser-13.jpg|thumb|none|500px|]]
[[File:March or Die-Mauser-13.jpg|thumb|none|500px|]]
[[File:March or Die-Mauser-14.jpg|thumb|none|500px|]]
[[File:March or Die-Mauser-14.jpg|thumb|none|500px|Note the front sight base, long bayonet lug, and parade hook on the upper barrel band.]]
== 1893 Spanish Mauser ==
== Turkish M1903 Mauser ==
[[1893 Spanish Mauser]] rifles are seen in hands of El Krim's Bedouins.
[[1903 Turkish Mauser|Turkish M1903]] rifles are seen in hands of El Krim's Bedouins. These rifles are distinguished by their M98-pattern bolts, the tangent-leaf rear sight, and pistol-gripped stocks. Some have been fitted with the bayonet lugs from [[M43 Spanish Mauser|Spanish M1943 Mauser]] rifles.
[[File:March or Die-Mauser-5.jpg|thumb|none|500px|Bedouins aims long Mauser rifles that seem to match Spanish M1893.]]
[[File:March or Die-Mauser-5.jpg|thumb|none|500px|Bedouins aims long Mauser rifles that seem to match Turkish M38s.]]
[[File:March or Die-Mauser-12.jpg|thumb|none|500px|An M1893 is seen at the right.]]
[[File:March or Die-Mauser-12.jpg|thumb|none|500px|Note the rifle fitted with the Spanish M43 bayonet lug at center-left.]]
== M43 Spanish Mauser ==
[[File:March or Die-Mauser-4.jpg|thumb|none|500px|This rifle is also fitted with the Spanish M43 bayonet lug. Note that there is no spring clip on the side of the stock to retain the upper barrel band, a sign that this band is not meant to go with this stock.]]
[[M43 Spanish Mauser]] rifles are also used by El Krim's Bedouins.
[[File:March or Die-Mauser-8.jpg|thumb|none|500px|A Bedouin at the left holds a Turkish M38 with the Spanish M43 bayonet lug.]]
March or Die is a 1977 adventure movie directed by Dick Richards and starring Gene Hackman, Terence Hill, Catherine Deneuve and Max von Sydow. The story takes place in 1918 in Morocco. A detachment of the French Foreign Legion under the command of Major Foster (Gene Hackman) is send to escort an archaeologists expedition in desert where El Krim (Ian Holm) raises Bedouin tribes for Jihad.
The following weapons were used in the film March or Die:
Legionnaires are armed with Lebel 1886 rifles. In the final scene Francois Marneau (Max von Sydow), the chief archaeologist, also is seen with a Lebel.
Turkish M1903 rifles are seen in hands of El Krim's Bedouins. These rifles are distinguished by their M98-pattern bolts, the tangent-leaf rear sight, and pistol-gripped stocks. Some have been fitted with the bayonet lugs from Spanish M1943 Mauser rifles.
Major Foster's detachment is equipped with a Skoda 75mm Model 15 Mountain Gun. It stands for a French 65mm Canon de 65 M (montagne) Mle 1906 gun which was widely used in French colonies in Africa.
