The Fm 24 29 Dunkirk 1940 The Before The Reality The Aftermath
The Chatellerault FM 24/29 is an oftforgotten light machine gun despite its relatively early design (predating the ZB/Bren series, DP28, and Nambu LMGs) and very long service life It was the standard French LMG for World War Two, Indochina, Algeria, and many small African interventions It has a decent bipod, good 25round box magazines, a front handguard for hipFM 24/29,) was a French Light Machine Gun in service from the early 1930s to the late 1950s where it was then succeeded by the AA52 Gendarmerie Nationale regional brigades continued to use the FM 24/29 until 06 French troops preferred this over the bulky Browning Automatic Rifle, which lead to this LMG being designed One could compare the weapon to the British Bren, as
