A photograph showing a Hotchkiss 3-mm machine gun being used by the 10th Balloon Company to defend a balloon from hostile planes during World War I in Jesanville, Meurthe et Moselle, France. This image was taken by Sergeant Vilanova on November 23, 1918.

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