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[[File:lb19_enfield5.jpg|thumb|none|500px|The chamber can be seen open.]] | [[File:lb19_enfield5.jpg|thumb|none|500px|The chamber can be seen open.]] | ||
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German soldiers carry rifles with straight bolt handles that appear to be Dutch [[Beaumont-Vitali Rifle|Beaumont | German soldiers carry rifles with straight bolt handles that appear to be Dutch [[Beaumont-Vitali Rifle|Beaumont M1871]] rifles. | ||
[[File:Beaumont-Vitali.jpg|thumb|none|400px|Dutch service Beaumont-Vitali M1871/88 - 11.3x50R mm. The M71 looks the same without the magazine.]] | [[File:Beaumont-Vitali.jpg|thumb|none|400px|Dutch service Beaumont-Vitali M1871/88 - 11.3x50R mm. The M71 looks the same without the magazine.]] | ||
[[File:lb19_rifle1.jpg|thumb|none|500px|German soldiers in a trench await the attack.]] | [[File:lb19_rifle1.jpg|thumb|none|500px|German soldiers in a trench await the attack.]] | ||
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The Lost Battalion is a 1919 American silent World War I film about units of the 77th Sustainment Brigade surrounded by German forces in the Argonne Forest. The movie featers many actual soldiers of the Battalion who portrayed themselves. In 2001 the move was remade by Russell Mulcahy.
The following weapons were used in the film The Lost Battalion (1919):
Pistols
Colt M1911
The Colt M1911 is used by American soldiers and Major (then Captain) George McMurtry and by a German soldier.
Rifles
Enfield M1917
American troops use M1917 Enfield rifles in the movie.
Beaumont M1871
German soldiers carry rifles with straight bolt handles that appear to be Dutch Beaumont M1871 rifles.
Machine Guns
M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle
The Browning Automatic Rifle is used by a soldier of the Lost Battalion.
Hotchkiss M1914
German soldiers use what appears to be a French Hotchkiss M1914 machine gun.
