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Now these are the kinds of weapons the modern, mass armies of the Axis and Allies needed. The concept of a “squad automatic weapon” was not new to the Second World War, and was in fact developed a generation earlier in the mud-soaked trenches of the First World War. The French were actually the first to deploy such a weapon, the largely disparaged Chauchat. While it suffered from design flaws it was still an innovative weapon. During World War II that concept evolved and led to the development of squad automatic weapons, and even to the modern assault rifle. The U.S. M1918 Browning Automa...

Coming out loading into a van, making their way to the shuttle. they were supposed to board the shuttle and now the launch itself has been scrubbed. we're told there will be at least a 48-hour turn around. let's go right to jay barbaree. what's the problem? >> reporter: they had two of their five auxiliary power units inside "endeavour" that was overheating. they could not figure out why. the engineers took a look at it and instead of loading the astronauts on board "endeavour" today they decided to scrub the mission and probably for at least 48 hours so they can get in tune with what's happen...