Original WWII Czech ZB-30 German MG30(t) Display Machine Gun Category_MG 34 Barrel Jacket Assembly We cannot explain the Glider

We cannot explain the Glider Pilot patch on the Artillery uniform so this could be a post war addition

The Gibson Girl design was based on a captured German emergency transmitter called the Notsender NS2

Years of cleaning have removed the original browned finish

and the fire-rate adjustment still moves

Original WWII Czech ZB-30 German MG30(t) Display Machine Gun Category_MG 34 Barrel Jacket Assembly We cannot explain the GliderOriginal Item: Only One Available. The ZB30 and ZB 30J were the later versions of the famous Czechoslovakian machine gun, the ZB 26. However, the ZB30 had some design differences, making it similar to the later ZGB 33, which was an early prototype of the Bren gun. Like the ZB 26, the Wehrmacht adopted the ZB 30 after the occupation of Czechoslovakia, renaming it the MG30(t); it was used in the same role as the MG34, as a light machine gun. In the