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The Blue Max
The following weapons were used in the film The Blue Max:
Machine Guns
Maxim LMG 08/15 "Spandau" (mockup)
The Germans use air-cooled Maxim LMG 08/15 machine guns on their Fokker biplanes and triplanes. The guns mounted are mockups due to a number of revealing mistakes. The cocking handle on each MG doesn't move when the gun is fired. The brass ejects through the right side of the gun in the middle of the cooling jacket which is not where the brass is ejected in the original. The barrel of each MG is shown portruding from just above the exact center of the cooling jacket. In reality the barrel was at the bottom of the jacket. There also seems to be a stick magazine inserted very near where the movie-version MG is ejecting brass. Most likely a pair of submachineguns (judging by the stick magazines and oddly placed ejection ports) were substituted for the real thing.
Lewis gun
British biplanes are seen armed with the Lewis aircraft gun.
Maxim MG08
Maxim MG08 seen used by British troops.
Rifles
Lee-Enfield No.4 Mk.I
Lee-Enfield No.4 Mk.I carried by both German and British troops. The rifle is also seen in the hands of Bruno Stachel (George Peppard). The movie was shot in Ireland and there was a lack of genuine German (or otherwise) Mausers for the shoot so Commonwealth weapons were used.
Handguns
Luger P08
The Luger P08 can be seen briefly carried by a German officer.
Other
Webley & Scott No. 1 Mk. III* Signal Pistol
A German officer uses a Webley & Scott No. 1 Mk. III* Signal Pistol.
