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Originally Posted by Patrick
Both machines were equipped with a pair of LMG 08/15 machine guns. The D.III had "buried" machine guns -- the guns were mounted inside the fuselage with only their barrels protruding into metal troughs. This arrangement made it difficult to clear jams in flight and even normal maintenance was complicated by the limited access. So the D.IIIa reverted to the more common practice of mounting the guns on top of the fuselage.
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I guess I knew this but for got to state it. Anything else?