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Hotchkiss M1914
The Hotchkiss M1914 (French: Hotchkiss Modèle 1914) machine gun was the standard machine gun of the French Army during World War I. It was manufactured by the French arms company of Hotchkiss et Cie, which had been established by American industrialist Benjamin B. Hotchkiss. The M1914 was the last version of a series of nearly identical Hotchkiss designs (Mle 1897/1900/1908). The Hotchkiss M1914 replaced the St. Étienne Mle 1907 and became standard for the French infantry in late 1917. The American Expeditionary Forces (A.E.F.) in France also used the Hotchkiss M1914 extensively in 1917 and 1918.
The Hotchkiss machine gun remained in active service with the French army until the early 1940s and used by the Germans for secondary troops guarding installations during World War II; many of these were captured from the Polish, who used a variant chambered in 7.92x57mm Mauser designated the Ckm wz. 25. The Japanese produced three variants under licence - the Type 38 and the Type 3 heavy machine gun chambered in 6.5x50mmSR Arisaka, and the Type 92 heavy machine gun chambered in 7.7x58mmSR Arisaka; all retained the strip-feed system of the original variants.
Specifications
(1914 - 1920)
- Type: Machine gun
- Caliber: 8x50mmR Lebel, 7.92x57mm Mauser, 11x59mmR Gras
- Capacity: 24-round feed strip (8x50mmR Lebel, 11x59mmR Gras), 30-round strip (7.92x57mm Mauser), 250-round belt box
- Firemodes: Fully automatic (450 RPM)
The Hotchkiss M1914 and variants can be seen in the following films, television series, video games, and anime used by the following actors:
Film
| Title | Actor | Character | Note | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Big Parade | American soldiers | AA-mounting | 1925 | |
| Verdun: Visions of History | French soldiers | 1928 | ||
| Westfront 1918 | mounted in a tank | 1930 | ||
| Wooden Crosses | French soldiers | 1932 | ||
| The World Moves On | French soldiers | footage from Wooden Crosses | 1934 | |
| La Bandera | Spanish Foreign Legionnaires | 1935 | ||
| The Road to Glory | French soldiers | footage from Wooden Crosses | 1936 | |
| The Defense of Volochayevsk | Imperial Japanese Army | 1938 | ||
| If War Comes Tomorrow (Esli zavtra voyna) | Enemy troops | 1938 | ||
| Commandant of the Bird Island (Komendant Ptichyego ostrova) | Japanese spies | Type 38 (Hotchkiss M1900) | 1939 | |
| Disappearance of "Oryol" (Gibel "Orla") | Red and White Army soldiers | 1940 | ||
| In the Rear of the Enemy (V tylu vraga) | Finnish soldiers | 1941 | ||
| Fighting Film Collection No. 3 (Boyevoy kinosbornik No. 3) | Viktor Arkasov | Sgt. Sharov | 1941 | |
| Pyotr Savin | Pvt. Belkin | |||
| Vladimir Shishkin | Pvt. Kalachyov | |||
| German soldiers | ||||
| Aleksandr Parkhomenko | Anarchists | 1942 | ||
| Fighting Film Collection No. 8 (Boyevoy kinosbornik No. 8) | In weapon cache | 1942 | ||
| Fighting Film Collection No. 12 (Boyevoy kinosbornik No. 12) | Abandoned on battlefield | 1942 | ||
| And Quiet Flows the Don (Tikhiy Don) | German soldiers | Belf-fed | 1957 | |
| The Golden Eshelon (Zolotoy eshelon) | Mounted on White Army armoured train | 1959 | ||
| The Guns of Juana Gallo | María Félix | Ángela Ramos 'Juana Gallo' | 1961 | |
| Jorge Mistral | Guillermo Velarde | |||
| Mexican soldiers, rebels | ||||
| Lawrence of Arabia | Turkish soldiers | 1962 | ||
| Weekend at Dunkirk | French soldiers | 1964 | ||
| Viva Maria! | Mexican soldiers | 1965 | ||
| Lost Command | Seen on a gun emplacement | 1966 | ||
| Is Paris Burning? | French Resistance fighters | 1966 | ||
| A Professional Gun (Il mercenario) | Franco Nero | Sergei Kowalski | 1968 | |
| Tony Musante | Paco Roman | |||
| Giovanna Ralli | Columba | |||
| Mexican rebels | ||||
| A Bullet for the General | Lou Castel | Bill 'Niño' Tate | 1968 | |
| The Vulture (Le Rapace) | Mexican soldiers | 1968 | ||
| Bonnot's Gang (La bande à Bonnot) | French Zouaves | 1968 | ||
| Hornets' Nest | German Soldiers | Fake barrel extension | 1970 | |
| I Am the Law (Il prefetto di ferro) | Italian Carabinieri | 1977 | ||
| March or Die | French Foreign Legionnaires | 1977 | ||
| The Big Red One | Vichy French soldiers | 1980 | ||
| The Ace of Aces (L'As des as) | French soldiers | 1982 | ||
| Deal of the Century | Seen in the Gundealer's Room | 1983 | ||
| Ay, Carmela! | Spanish Requetés | Also mounted on Tiznao armored car and possibly on T-26 tank | 1990 | |
| Libertarias | Anarchists | 1996 | ||
| Legionaire | Jean Claude Van Damme | Alain Lefevre | 1998 | |
| The Lost Battalion | Anthony Azizi | Pvt. Nat Henchman | 2001 | |
| Once Upon a Time in Mexico | Masked loyalist | 2003 | ||
| A Very Long Engagement | French soldiers | 2004 | ||
| Joyeux Noël | French soldiers | 2005 | ||
| Flyboys | 2006 | |||
| Day of the Falcon (Or noir) | Nasib's soldiers | Mounted in armored cars | 2011 | |
| Dunkirk | French soldiers | 2017 | ||
| To the Ends of the World (Les confins du monde) | French soldiers | 2018 |
Television
| Show Title | Actor | Character | Note | Air Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Front Without Mercy (Front ohne Gnade) | Spanish Republicans | Modelo 24, mounted on Bilbao Modelo 1932 armoured car; Seen in documentary footage; Ep.5 | 1984 | |
| Mail Call | Season 2; Archive footage | 2002-2009 |
Video Games
| Game Title | Appears as | Notation | Release Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medal of Honor: Underground | Mounted | 2000 | |
| Battlefield: 1918 | 2014 | ||
| Battle of Empires: 1914-1918 | "Hotchkiss" | 2015 | |
| Battlefield 1 | "They Shall Not Pass" DLC; mounted on French tanks | 2016 | |
| Post Scriptum | Introduced in Plan Jaune update | 2018 | |
| Land of War: The Beginning | Wz. 25 Hotchkiss; Polish variant | 2021 | |
| Beyond The Wire | "Hotchkiss M1914" | 2022 |
Anime
| Title | Character | Note | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Momotaro: Sacred Sailors | British soldiers | 1945 | |
| Girls und Panzer das Finale: Part 1 | Mounted on Saint-Chamond Tank | 2017 | |
| Golden Kamuy - Season 2 | Arisaka Nariakira | Ep. "The Great Plan to Infiltrate the Asahikawa 7th Division!!"; Hotchkiss Type 38 | 2018 |