Original French Model 1866 Chassepot Needle Fire Rifle Dated 1873 - Serial No 76278 Category_MG 34 Ammo Storage Named to officer WILLIAM F

Named to officer WILLIAM F

• Painted art on the reverse featuring the A-20 Havoc’s name Becky along with 51 yellow bombs (indicating successful missions flown) and 2 red bombs which signify a bombing mission flown on D-Day and the first mission flown for target in Germany

Purchased as part of a large Royal Navy collection

This is the original

Original French Model 1866 Chassepot Needle Fire Rifle Dated 1873 - Serial No 76278 Category_MG 34 Ammo Storage Named to officer WILLIAM FOriginal Item: Only One Available. Despite the fact that the French needle fire Chassepot rifle was far superior to the needle fire Prussian Dreyse rifle, the French took a swift and decisive beating in the war of 1870 71. In fairness to the French, the defeat was due to Napoleon III's foolhardiness in allowing himself to get captured at the Battle of Sedan and the show was then over. The Chassepot rifle of 1866 was a single shot bolt action rifle and