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During World War II, American G.I.s called the German MG42 machine gun “Hitler’s buzz saw” because of the way it cut down troops in swaths. The Soviet Red Army called it “the linoleum ripper” because ...

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Here’s What You Need To Remember: The machine gun had its weaknesses. It used ammunition like crazy, possessed no single-shot capability and could quickly overheat. But its raw firepower did ghastly ...

The Waffen SS built some of its most effective battlefield tactics around the devastating firepower of the MG34 and MG42, using camouflage, fallback positions, and pre planned mortar fire to break up ...