Good experiment. My grandfather was a Red Army soldier in the WW2 (8th Guards Army) and served as a machine gunner. He told me that in 1943 he switched to MG-42 - there were enough captured MGs, spare parts for them and ammo. He just loved MG-42: easy to change the overheated barrels, good ammo belts, great firepower, light enough to carry in the hands...
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My grandfather was wounded in the Battle of the Bulge. He took shrapnel in the neck and upper torso. The shrapnel was not from those MG-42 rounds directly, it was from bone fragments flying out of torn bodies!
@@199gSauerkraut Krieg ist die Hölle auf jeder Seite, mein Freund. Ich war zwei Jahre in Fulda und habe den größten Respekt vor den Menschen in Deutschland.
I have heard accounts of Werhmacht MG crew members that went crazy due to the damages they witnessed that they had inflicted. One cannot imagine what is was like to be a frontline witness to this kind of carnage. Very instructional video.
There was a book written by the one combat veteran with experience operating the MG 42, on Omaha beach I believe. The writer claims the other gunners were inexperienced and abandoned their positions early in the battle while he focused on the landing craft when the doors dropped. He claims to have killed at least five thousand men himself. Probably true considering. Can't be disproven either. "They just kept sending more" He had plenty of barrel swaps, an assist gunner and a spare MG 42 to switch to in the bunker to keep the other from melting despite the barrel swaps. Quite the fish story but it was probably true.
@@user-qn7ui7sb1q I'm not the guy who wrote the book and I forget the details, look it up. I'll try and find it and let you know if I get around to it.
@@user-qn7ui7sb1q Heinrich Severloh was the man's name. Claims over a thousand kills and became friends with a man he probably shot three times. I need to go read that book now when I find it.
@@sonsofisstvan1675not only that but 8,8cm and 12,8cm HE rounds all over, as well as rifle fire. Hell on earth is an understatement. Although slightly conflicting with my personal beliefs, the phrase “War isn’t hell. Only bad people go to hell, war comes for all” is still frighteningly relevant.
To the Japanese weapons, yes this is true. American propaganda is guilty of lying about Japanese weaponry effectiveness. But To the German MG42? No. I have never seen WW2 propaganda stating the MG42 of being “not as effective”. I’ve seen WW2 videos clearly explaining the high rate of fire, and psychological effects it has against American soldiers, when fired upon. The video demonstrated possible ways to take out an MG42 gunner position, but never states this weapon is “ineffective”. It clearly states how devastating and powerful the Hitler buzz saw is. Americans were clearly aware of how powerful German weapons and engineering were at the time. So I’m sorry, I don’t buy this argument. The Japanese were a different story. Americans were extremely biased against them because of Pearl Harbor. So it was normal for them to down play anything the Japanese had. However, to be fair, there is SOME truth to this bias, but not because of what you may think. The Japanese had effective weapons, but they lacked natural resources in their mainland nation. And as the Japanese kept loosing resources and supplies, (after their navy was destroyed and their factories bombed continuously), the quality of their weapons and equipment lowered throughout the years, based on these factors.
Having 7.92 x 57mm rounds coming at you in a barrage of fire, must have been more than just terrifying. I don't know how these lads got themselves to leave those amphibian vessels in the first place. I would probably have frozen and got shot by at least a few 7.92 x 57 rounds. Death would have occurred practically instantly.
My Father made four landings in the Central Pacific in WW2 (all "in assault" or fist wave.) I asked him what it felt like to be under MG, mortar, artillery fire while approaching the beach. The firing on you starts way further out than you would think. Everybody is scared, everybody. Landing craft get hit and sunk, even LSTs (Landing Ship Tank) and DD's (Destroyers) get popped. You're being fired at by artillery that's been pre-sighted to the beaches as were their mortars too. The Japanese had a lot of self-supporting MG's too, not as fast firing as the MG42 but just as deadly. On the way in ships do get hit. DD's will come will come in close to lend fire support too, thus making themselves more vulnerable to enemy shore batteries. The enemy had had 3" and/or 5" (inch) shore batteries that could reach out and sink both LST's and DD's more than a mile out at sea. Neither of those ship types have any armor protection. You just pray your's isn't one that get's hit. You can't swim back to Hawaii or San Diego so what are gonna do? It's one thing at a time. Hope your landing craft doen't get hit on the way in to the beach after it leaves the LST. Then get out of your landing craft as close to the beach as possible. Anytime you disembark into the water though there's a chance you could do so into an underwater shell hole or crater and being so weighed down with equipment and lead ammunition you just sink to the bottom. That was a worry. The closer the landing craft get to shore and start unloading the troops the more the enemy equivilant to our Browning 1919 .30 cal qqMGs, 105mm and 155mm Howitzers increase their fire on those presighted beaches then packed with unloading infantry. The Germans and Japaese both used this same tactic. Then there's finding cover, all while under the same heavy fire. It sounded nasty to me when I first heard what it was like and it doesn't sound any better or easier now. I guess when you're a 19 year Marine or soldier (in the case of Normandy and other European invasion spots) you just put your head down and try to keep moving foward, while listening for orders (of course), the first 15 mins of saving Private Ryan were what I would imagine seeing on Omaha Beach.
Everyone who goes to war has to find courage within themselves so they can do their job. Make no mistake about it though, everyone is scared as hell. If someone says they aren't scared on the battlefield, they're just trying to make themselves feel better.
I served my country (Italy) in a battalion of Alpini riflemen in 1993 ( Battaglione Alpini SÜSA, 3° reggimento alpini)and as a team weapon we had the MG-42/59 (produced by Beretta in 7.62nato). we used it both in the field and on armored vehicles and on 4x4 fifth wheel transport vehicles. today the team weapon is the MINIMI, but the MG-42/59 remains as a light machine gun on vehicles and helicopters. it is a formidable and reliable weapon. it is no coincidence that, after 80 years, it is still operational......greetings from Italy ✌
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This was genuinely a beast of a machine gun, chambered in 7.92 x 57mm. Both range, energy, and rate of fire were astounding. Absolutely deadly. It gave the German army the edge to push forward and hold on as long as they did.
@@tedk.6420 Then you could have just stayed in the Allied army. Because.... almost all nations drugged their soldiers with similar substances. It is just popular to throw that on the Nazis.
@@blauser46 Not necessarily. There are many stories where individual soldiers destroyed German machine gun nests. One can cite the achievement of 1st Lieutenant Walther Will single-handedly destroying 4 MG nests on March 30, 1945 and Lieutenant Michael Daly silencing three MG nests on April 18, 1945.
My late Father served in the Sicily campaign in 1943. He always mentioned his mate Harry who was 'cut in half' by a burst of German MG fire. I always thought that seemed a bit far fetched but having seen this video....I fully believe what my Dad told me now!
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9:37 imagine seeing that happen to your best friend since middle school right in front of your eyes and then someone telling you to “KEEP MOVING UP THE BEACH!!!!”
The MG3 , basicaly a NATO-rized 308 MG42 was never fired full auto by us in my service time within the german Bundeswehr. I was the dedicated deputy of our tank commander therefore responsible for the heavy support weaponry, Panzerfaust and Maschinengewehr 3. I prefered my G3 Sturmgewehr, same caliber yet more of a scalpel instead of a sledgehammer BUT as a defensive weapon the MG3's distinguitive sound has a very impressive ability to instantly supress all enemy infanty movement
@@VinhTran-lu6gm How do you know that I was or am not right now ?And on the other hand it isnt that it didnt allready worked very well in the last war... called World War 2, maybe you have heard from that thing. I am sure it will be used in the next one too.
@@evemaniac It has a good history along with alot of the german firearms but I dont like people claiming things with no proof. ever heard of stolen valor I know you europeans have a problem with that concept
@@VinhTran-lu6gm the psychological and the suppresssing effect on troop movement is an effect very well documented since the invention of machine guns and their appearance on the battlefield. From there came the term teached in squad tactics called "supression fire" and as a former soldier you most certainly will get or got that teachings with basic classes in one form or another, followed buy practical drills. A similar effect can be witnessed in civil life when you hear a "supposed gunshot" out of a sudden some tend to duck down, even when its just a powerfull car with a modified muffler. Like mines make people loose limbs and bombs can destroy entire blocks.. thats common knowlege and I can tell that without being torn to pieces or stepped onto a anti personal mine.
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@@columbiawarmachine9795 i will check that out, he said another was hit in the arm by mg 42 fire, and it took his arm off, and he bled to death. mg42 was no joke
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@@columbiawarmachine9795 I beg to differ here. The FG-42 is most definitely the most appealing (German) gun of all times. Next to the StG-44, of course. The G3, I don't know. Rather the FAL then, but that wasn't German.
This is one of the few videos that truly puts into scale the sheer destructive power of these monsters. Usually they’re fired at a metal target or wood, but this shows you just how devastating they are. Thanks for the video.
From the 1960s onwards the MG42 appeared on tanks, having not done so during the war. The MG3A1 was the specific variant to be used as a coaxial tank gun. I drove a Leopard 2A4 as a soldier and I did wish that the Leopard 2A4s that I served on board kept their MG42s instead of switching over to the FN MAG
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Again, as a 1,98m blonde blue eyed German with Army Background who has shot the MG-3(1200rpm) as well, i have to say NO ONE seems to love and live the MG-42 as you and your supporting friends do, and no one will be hyped as you about it when you're gone one day. Wish i could experience the 1500rpm original Maschinengewehr-42 just once, the spring in the MG-3 is a weaker one which makes the difference they said. Plus NATO-Caliber is .3mm smaller and 6mm shorter. If you're good you can dish out 1-2round bursts as well :D Your Collection is Museum Quality, your Footage(SloMo, Angles etc) gets better with each MG42 Video coming out. Please put a Sec Timer in the Super-SloMo next TIme ;) All good to you Guys, things here in Germany heating up quite a lot right now. Send Prayers please.......... A German
I`m a Brit and worked as a gardener for a WW2 Vet who had to run up a D-day beach with a German machine gunner trying to kill him. He obviously made it and he said some of his comrades didn`t. It was just luck that the gunner didn`t line him up in his sights. He even survived Cancer after the War and eventually passed in his 80s.
My late father was a Coldstream Guardsman fighting in France Belgium and Holland in 1944. He witnessed what this machine gun was like in action against his mates. He saw a close friend die a horrible death when he was hit by a burst of Spandau fire. Almost cut him in half. Terrible to witness. Dad never forgot what facing an MG34 or 42 was truly like.
My dad was a Bren Gunner with the Scots Guards in NE Italy (he mentioned the Comacchio Marshes) in 1944-45 and didn't talk about the reality of his wartime experiences until late in his life. He spoke about crossing an open space when his best pal was 'almost cut in half' by what I think he called a Spandau, which I expect would have been an MG42.
Do you think there has ever been a situation where the shooters of several machine guns were to concentrate fire on one soldier and fire several hundred rounds of ammunition at him? Completely ridiculous.
I remember my grandfather telling me stories about the Jerry's and how Hitlers buzz saw and how you stood no chance against it in the open but there was another name that MG had that was the devils paintbrush and if you were caught out in the open. then the devils paintbrush would most certainly get you and that there would not be enough of you left to mail home. The MG struck fear into some G.I s he would tell me how they wait for the Jerry's to reload and swap out barrels before they could return fire or frag them. Our grandfathers fought one of the most brutal wars in American history and overcame against insurmountable odds.
Overcome only because the vast majority of the elite SS ,and wermacht divisions were ocupied in Russia otherwise D -day would have been a very different story
What is even crazier is that the barrel change on an MG-42 is very fast. Also if the belts have starter tabs reloading takes only seconds. I have an MG-34 and barrel change is a bit slower.
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@@paulfrehley7352 No I didn't. The Americans didn't charge a million men straight into German lines. Americans had better support logistics where as Russians were thrown directly into the meat grinder.
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Battle for Stalingrad ( Russia )was 4 Times more brutal than D Day and everyone ignores that. Soviets suffered alot to take their city back from Germans
@@lRoguel Nope: Soviet blood saved the world in ww2, dont forget they were allies, so you are forced to aknowledge them. You deserve praise for what you did in ww2 sure, but for each yankee soldier that died on the Battlefield 20 more Russian soldiers died defending their Homeland. We arent talking about politics, we are talking about loss of life, so get out of your high horse and aknowledge that Russian troops absorbed the brunt of the entire German forces. Here on Europe we all understand that Soviet blood opened Berlin
In the reality, machine gunners have fired very rarely a complete belt "in one go" - the barrel gets overheated dramatically and gets just destroyed. Short bursts of 5 to 10 rounds were common. I have heard from German veterans that in 1944-1945 it was even prohibited for them to fire long bursts out of MG-42 because ammo was not enough - the production rates could not keep up with the needs of the front troops.
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My grandfather was a balistic zombie in moon war 2. When he served at an mg42 for the first time he noticed a strange and very loud noise but this is a very valuable documentary. American science at its finest.
I am smiling, i am amazed and scared all at once! I like that you gave us all the opportunity to see content like this. But man i wished no one ever had to make this experience in real life. Greetings from Germany.
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Hi, I'm from germany. Everytime when my grandpa saw a war movie on tv, he was always telling me that the gun sounds and shotting rounds were fake. In reality the MG42 has made no fast "tok tok tok tok tok tok tok" like every other MG....in reality it was like "grrrrrrrrrrrrr".....like a jigsaw. Here you can see it exactly! That's why it was called "Hitler-Säge" in Germany.
There were more than five MG 42s at Omaha Beach. The 15 resistance nests there contained some 85 machine guns, not all operational. Some were MG 34s and water cooled Polish machine guns. Of course there were also mortars and artillery on those 6000 meters of Hell.
Many MG 42 gunners got mad and had psychlogical problems, when they saw, what their weapon had done with the enemy bodies. It was called Hitler`s chainsaw. Greetings from Bremen, Germany. Happy Easter!
Das MG ist das tödliches welches ich kenne , ich habe das MG 3 also den Nachfolger bei der Bundeswehr als MGschütze gehabt und das war gebremst und genauso tödlich , das MG 42 und Vorgänger hießen damals nicht umsonst Kreissäge oder Fleischwolf .😉 Aber schön das Ihr die Legende der Waffe aufrecht erhaltet .Danke fürs Video. Translation : The MG is the most deadly one I know, I had the MG 3 as the successor in the Bundeswehr as a machine gunner and it was braked and just as deadly, the MG 42 and its predecessor were not called Back then, it was not for nothing that we had a circular saw or a meat grinder .😉 But it's nice that you have the legend of the weapon maintained .Thanks for the video.
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Mg42 the famous Lurdinha so called by the Brazilian army that fought in Italy against the Nazis. Or also known as Hitler's laugh. (Glory to our soldiers.)
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Another idea, but harder to set up, in the army we had training films showing how to set up an MG for indirect ambush. At say 2 or 4 km you would mount a high angle and zero to land in BC a terrain pinch point. So when enemy is spotted you open fire and the bullets start landing all over the place . Low in energy but lethal. The films showed balloons on sticks and bullets scattering over say a 15 meter circle with MG tight on the pintle mount. The fast mg 42 much better at this.
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Met a Pz Grenadier coy comd on a battlefield tour in Italy in 1999. He described his coy defensive deployment with only 48 soldiers. I asked him: How did you evaluate combat effectiveness for your coy? His response: I had 24 x MG42s and 2 men per MG. I was combat effective.
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Based on the info I have read in my 72 years on earth, the actual scenes of what happened on Omaha Beach could never be shown to the public…probably for the fear it would generate in the minds of draftable age men😎😕
interesting observation, mg42 are criticized for their high fire ratio, basically they waste ammo in inaccuracy, BUT, they were thought to shoot accurate burts of round, maximizing the deadly effects, obviously with good training
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"I fired the weapons during my service time in the Bundeswehr. Approximately 500 meters with tracer rounds, 200 shots per round, field shooting exercise. Three repetitions."
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@@columbiawarmachine9795 I'm going to check it out! Just heard you talk about it at the end of this one, awesome video and I hope nobody ever tries to tread on you with all those bone saws lol
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Great video, the all tracer videos you do have always been my favorite…. Really helps visualize that lead hose.
It would be realistic if you shoot small bursts, like they teach it in the Wehrmacht and Bundeswehr.
@@matthiasschmitt2311 who cares? It’s for entertainment.
You aim like a biiiaaatch
It was named Hitler Buzzsaw' not just "the buzzsaw"
We just witnessed about $15K spent in 8mm ammo, for the making of this great documentary.
Imagine how high that bill would have been in case of the same array of miniguns.
15 000 , WOW !!!
Its only about a buck a round now.
Wait 700 rounds of 8mm Mauser cost 15k ? Thats a Bit high
@@itsKNR Bro, I was being facetious.
Good experiment. My grandfather was a Red Army soldier in the WW2 (8th Guards Army) and served as a machine gunner. He told me that in 1943 he switched to MG-42 - there were enough captured MGs, spare parts for them and ammo. He just loved MG-42: easy to change the overheated barrels, good ammo belts, great firepower, light enough to carry in the hands...
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Гитлеру бы в задницу его вставили и целую ленту расстреляли
Красава твой дед )
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"Remember boys: Its bark is worse than its bite. Now get in the landing craft!"
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I was thinking about that training film. They were a shit load more accurate than I ever imagined.
Now imagine the boys in Germany with no ear pro firing these non stop.
@@pmccoy8924 I think about that all the time could anybody hear after that?
My grandfather was wounded in the Battle of the Bulge. He took shrapnel in the neck and upper torso. The shrapnel was not from those MG-42 rounds directly, it was from bone fragments flying out of torn bodies!
Wow, I really do have a ton of respect for the soldiers
Incredible testimony, thank you
Oh wtf this is Hard and horible
@EUpunisher Mein Großonkel ist in Stalingrad gefallen, der war erst Anfang 20.
@@199gSauerkraut Krieg ist die Hölle auf jeder Seite, mein Freund. Ich war zwei Jahre in Fulda und habe den größten Respekt vor den Menschen in Deutschland.
The family of that single soldier: “can we see him?”
Doc: “no.”
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Doc: "I mean.... there isn't much to look at"
6:11 my guy got his gustavo fring ahh death
"Well you can ma'am, but you're NOT gonna like it and i strongly recommend you not to do it "
@@Casteleio_Typhon
“Like, literally he was reduced to dust.”
I have heard accounts of Werhmacht MG crew members that went crazy due to the damages they witnessed that they had inflicted. One cannot imagine what is was like to be a frontline witness to this kind of carnage. Very instructional video.
There was a book written by the one combat veteran with experience operating the MG 42, on Omaha beach I believe.
The writer claims the other gunners were inexperienced and abandoned their positions early in the battle while he focused on the landing craft when the doors dropped.
He claims to have killed at least five thousand men himself. Probably true considering.
Can't be disproven either.
"They just kept sending more"
He had plenty of barrel swaps, an assist gunner and a spare MG 42 to switch to in the bunker to keep the other from melting despite the barrel swaps.
Quite the fish story but it was probably true.
@@spacecowboy1438 They had also prototpye barrells there, which could fire much longer without heating up to much.
@@spacecowboy1438 the death toll at Omaha beach was 2500 people
@@user-qn7ui7sb1q I'm not the guy who wrote the book and I forget the details, look it up.
I'll try and find it and let you know if I get around to it.
@@user-qn7ui7sb1q Heinrich Severloh was the man's name.
Claims over a thousand kills and became friends with a man he probably shot three times.
I need to go read that book now when I find it.
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Imagining dozens of these going off on the beaches of Normandy must have been hell on earth
yeah, no. They just claimed their guns were better. You'd be a total fucking idiot to think this, or any other machinegun isn't that deadly.
@@sonsofisstvan1675not only that but 8,8cm and 12,8cm HE rounds all over, as well as rifle fire.
Hell on earth is an understatement. Although slightly conflicting with my personal beliefs, the phrase “War isn’t hell. Only bad people go to hell, war comes for all” is still frighteningly relevant.
To the Japanese weapons, yes this is true. American propaganda is guilty of lying about Japanese weaponry effectiveness. But To the German MG42? No. I have never seen WW2 propaganda stating the MG42 of being “not as effective”. I’ve seen WW2 videos clearly explaining the high rate of fire, and psychological effects it has against American soldiers, when fired upon. The video demonstrated possible ways to take out an MG42 gunner position, but never states this weapon is “ineffective”. It clearly states how devastating and powerful the Hitler buzz saw is.
Americans were clearly aware of how powerful German weapons and engineering were at the time. So I’m sorry, I don’t buy this argument. The Japanese were a different story. Americans were extremely biased against them because of Pearl Harbor. So it was normal for them to down play anything the Japanese had. However, to be fair, there is SOME truth to this bias, but not because of what you may think. The Japanese had effective weapons, but they lacked natural resources in their mainland nation. And as the Japanese kept loosing resources and supplies, (after their navy was destroyed and their factories bombed continuously), the quality of their weapons and equipment lowered throughout the years, based on these factors.
"It's bark is worse then its bite"
Those poor bastards trying to cross the beaches of Normandy must have had balls of steel.
Yes they were beast! I love this firearm , but would not want to face it
Having 7.92 x 57mm rounds coming at you in a barrage of fire, must have been more than just terrifying. I don't know how these lads got themselves to leave those amphibian vessels in the first place. I would probably have frozen and got shot by at least a few 7.92 x 57 rounds. Death would have occurred practically instantly.
My Father made four landings in the Central Pacific in WW2 (all "in assault" or fist wave.) I asked him what it felt like to be under MG, mortar, artillery fire while approaching the beach. The firing on you starts way further out than you would think. Everybody is scared, everybody. Landing craft get hit and sunk, even LSTs (Landing Ship Tank) and DD's (Destroyers) get popped. You're being fired at by artillery that's been pre-sighted to the beaches as were their mortars too. The Japanese had a lot of self-supporting MG's too, not as fast firing as the MG42 but just as deadly. On the way in ships do get hit. DD's will come will come in close to lend fire support too, thus making themselves more vulnerable to enemy shore batteries. The enemy had had 3" and/or 5" (inch) shore batteries that could reach out and sink both LST's and DD's more than a mile out at sea. Neither of those ship types have any armor protection. You just pray your's isn't one that get's hit. You can't swim back to Hawaii or San Diego so what are gonna do? It's one thing at a time. Hope your landing craft doen't get hit on the way in to the beach after it leaves the LST. Then get out of your landing craft as close to the beach as possible. Anytime you disembark into the water though there's a chance you could do so into an underwater shell hole or crater and being so weighed down with equipment and lead ammunition you just sink to the bottom. That was a worry. The closer the landing craft get to shore and start unloading the troops the more the enemy equivilant to our Browning 1919 .30 cal qqMGs, 105mm and 155mm Howitzers increase their fire on those presighted beaches then packed with unloading infantry. The Germans and Japaese both used this same tactic. Then there's finding cover, all while under the same heavy fire. It sounded nasty to me when I first heard what it was like and it doesn't sound any better or easier now. I guess when you're a 19 year Marine or soldier (in the case of Normandy and other European invasion spots) you just put your head down and try to keep moving foward, while listening for orders (of course), the first 15 mins of saving Private Ryan were what I would imagine seeing on Omaha Beach.
Everyone who goes to war has to find courage within themselves so they can do their job. Make no mistake about it though, everyone is scared as hell. If someone says they aren't scared on the battlefield, they're just trying to make themselves feel better.
Ended up with lead one's
Our friends from America always deliver next level machine gun testing. Love it 🇫🇷
Thank you , I appreciate you watching
You got some hairs from their ass still in your mouth 8 months later. Wash it.
So it really can litterally rip a man apart😮 sick dude those poor guys on omaha in 1944😢
I served my country (Italy) in a battalion of Alpini riflemen in 1993 ( Battaglione Alpini SÜSA, 3° reggimento alpini)and as a team weapon we had the MG-42/59 (produced by Beretta in 7.62nato). we used it both in the field and on armored vehicles and on 4x4 fifth wheel transport vehicles. today the team weapon is the MINIMI, but the MG-42/59 remains as a light machine gun on vehicles and helicopters. it is a formidable and reliable weapon. it is no coincidence that, after 80 years, it is still operational......greetings from Italy ✌
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@@tazzinasellout7968 I am 14 bro
@@MUSHROOMFROG948 I don't think anybody cares......😂😂😂😂😂
And i don't think anybody believes you@@tazzinasellout7968
This was genuinely a beast of a machine gun, chambered in 7.92 x 57mm. Both range, energy, and rate of fire were astounding. Absolutely deadly. It gave the German army the edge to push forward and hold on as long as they did.
All the soldiers were issued methamphetamine as well
Methine Gunner Squad @@MF-og1ct
@@MF-og1ct Id join the army if they rationed meth chocolate and cigarettes.
@@tedk.6420 Then you could have just stayed in the Allied army. Because.... almost all nations drugged their soldiers with similar substances. It is just popular to throw that on the Nazis.
@@MF-og1ct up until 1941
That's some serious "over kill," I can't imagine what what a nightmare it would've been like to be on the receiving end of this machine
I agree this was nothing to mess with
They called it the buzz saw for a reason
no way would i want to face this beast
@@blauser46 Not necessarily. There are many stories where individual soldiers destroyed German machine gun nests. One can cite the achievement of 1st Lieutenant Walther Will single-handedly destroying 4 MG nests on March 30, 1945 and Lieutenant Michael Daly silencing three MG nests on April 18, 1945.
@@ukasz-zm9qc Sigh.... are you one of those "not all" people?
when ww2 vets say cut in half by mg fire , literally
My late Father served in the Sicily campaign in 1943. He always mentioned his mate Harry who was 'cut in half' by a burst of German MG fire. I always thought that seemed a bit far fetched but having seen this video....I fully believe what my Dad told me now!
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9:37 imagine seeing that happen to your best friend since middle school right in front of your eyes and then someone telling you to “KEEP MOVING UP THE BEACH!!!!”
The soldiers definitely went through hell
@@columbiawarmachine9795many of the germans also. Killing so much people effects your physical health a lot…
It's soo shocking like had no chance if targeted rite
Look at the ground after it was painted by the blood, I can only imagine how red the beaches were
theres no best friend anymore
The MG3 , basicaly a NATO-rized 308 MG42 was never fired full auto by us in my service time within the german Bundeswehr. I was the dedicated deputy of our tank commander therefore responsible for the heavy support weaponry, Panzerfaust and Maschinengewehr 3. I prefered my G3 Sturmgewehr, same caliber yet more of a scalpel instead of a sledgehammer BUT as a defensive weapon the MG3's distinguitive sound has a very impressive ability to instantly supress all enemy infanty movement
They are all good firearms
how would you know if you werent deployed in a combat zone
@@VinhTran-lu6gm How do you know that I was or am not right now ?And on the other hand it isnt that it didnt allready worked very well in the last war... called World War 2, maybe you have heard from that thing. I am sure it will be used in the next one too.
@@evemaniac It has a good history along with alot of the german firearms but I dont like people claiming things with no proof. ever heard of stolen valor I know you europeans have a problem with that concept
@@VinhTran-lu6gm the psychological and the suppresssing effect on troop movement is an effect very well documented since the invention of machine guns and their appearance on the battlefield. From there came the term teached in squad tactics called "supression fire" and as a former soldier you most certainly will get or got that teachings with basic classes in one form or another, followed buy practical drills.
A similar effect can be witnessed in civil life when you hear a "supposed gunshot" out of a sudden some tend to duck down, even when its just a powerfull car with a modified muffler.
Like mines make people loose limbs and bombs can destroy entire blocks.. thats common knowlege and I can tell that without being torn to pieces or stepped onto a anti personal mine.
A soldier that landed on omaha said in a documentary that his friend was split in half by mg42 fire
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@@columbiawarmachine9795 i will check that out, he said another was hit in the arm by mg 42 fire, and it took his arm off, and he bled to death. mg42 was no joke
MG42s are basically long range shredders
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The best machine gun ever made.still working
Now that's a weapon. German engineering as always top tier.
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@@columbiawarmachine9795 Thanks for the feedback, will do!
@@Lone_Coyote thank you for watching
@@columbiawarmachine9795 I beg to differ here. The FG-42 is most definitely the most appealing (German) gun of all times. Next to the StG-44, of course.
The G3, I don't know. Rather the FAL then, but that wasn't German.
@@Guido_XL I have 7 stg 44s as well I like all ww2 weapons they are my favorite
The scrap value of that berm must be phenomenal 😮
This is one of the few videos that truly puts into scale the sheer destructive power of these monsters. Usually they’re fired at a metal target or wood, but this shows you just how devastating they are. Thanks for the video.
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Some of the comments could have been left out
The “monster” is the human, not the inanimate piece of steel.
From the 1960s onwards the MG42 appeared on tanks, having not done so during the war. The MG3A1 was the specific variant to be used as a coaxial tank gun. I drove a Leopard 2A4 as a soldier and I did wish that the Leopard 2A4s that I served on board kept their MG42s instead of switching over to the FN MAG
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This gun is absolutely frightening
It is the buzz saw
Это. Пулемет.
Again, as a 1,98m blonde blue eyed German with Army Background who has shot the MG-3(1200rpm) as well, i have to say NO ONE seems to love and live the MG-42 as you and your supporting friends do, and no one will be hyped as you about it when you're gone one day.
Wish i could experience the 1500rpm original Maschinengewehr-42 just once, the spring in the MG-3 is a weaker one which makes the difference they said. Plus NATO-Caliber is .3mm smaller and 6mm shorter.
If you're good you can dish out 1-2round bursts as well :D
Your Collection is Museum Quality, your Footage(SloMo, Angles etc) gets better with each MG42 Video coming out.
Please put a Sec Timer in the Super-SloMo next TIme ;)
All good to you Guys, things here in Germany heating up quite a lot right now.
Send Prayers please..........
A German
Prayers are being generated...
Prayer Applied to Humanity on Earth... So be it...
Prayers for what reason?
Was soll das mit dem Kommentar, blauäugig deutsch? Bisschen fehl am Platz.
not original, 1500 is rare late war.
I`m a Brit and worked as a gardener for a WW2 Vet who had to run up a D-day beach with a German machine gunner trying to kill him. He obviously made it and he said some of his comrades didn`t. It was just luck that the gunner didn`t line him up in his sights. He even survived Cancer after the War and eventually passed in his 80s.
My late father was a Coldstream Guardsman fighting in France Belgium and Holland in 1944. He witnessed what this machine gun was like in action against his mates. He saw a close friend die a horrible death when he was hit by a burst of Spandau fire. Almost cut him in half. Terrible to witness. Dad never forgot what facing an MG34 or 42 was truly like.
I have so much respect for all the soldiers that fought in ww2 and every war
@@columbiawarmachine9795 Thank you sir. God bless.
@@Aviationartist01 Likewise.
My dad was a Bren Gunner with the Scots Guards in NE Italy (he mentioned the Comacchio Marshes) in 1944-45 and didn't talk about the reality of his wartime experiences until late in his life. He spoke about crossing an open space when his best pal was 'almost cut in half' by what I think he called a Spandau, which I expect would have been an MG42.
US soldier about to step onto Omaha beach: "I hope I make it home alive"
The guy next to him: 9:47
It was a crazy time for sure
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Do you think there has ever been a situation where the shooters of several machine guns were to concentrate fire on one soldier and fire several hundred rounds of ammunition at him? Completely ridiculous.
@@ukasz-zm9qc uuuh yeah? That's what they did
I can’t imagine…
I remember my grandfather telling me stories about the Jerry's and how Hitlers buzz saw and how you stood no chance against it in the open but there was another name that MG had that was the devils paintbrush and if you were caught out in the open. then the devils paintbrush would most certainly get you and that there would not be enough of you left to mail home. The MG struck fear into some G.I s he would tell me how they wait for the Jerry's to reload and swap out barrels before they could return fire or frag them. Our grandfathers fought one of the most brutal wars in American history and overcame against insurmountable odds.
Overcome only because the vast majority of the elite SS ,and wermacht divisions were ocupied in Russia otherwise D -day would have been a very different story
It is true there were a lot of young boys and old men on the beach. The best soldiers were on the eastern front
Thank you for watching all the soldiers that fought in that war went through hell
Жаль, что у вас не было Дональда Трампа в то время😅 Никакого ленд-лиза🤣🤣🤣
What is even crazier is that the barrel change on an MG-42 is very fast. Also if the belts have starter tabs reloading takes only seconds. I have an MG-34 and barrel change is a bit slower.
I expected insanity, but this exceeded my expectations.
Thank you 🙏! How have you been? We need to build a Tiger Tank soon lol! That will be a good video!
Hats off to CWM. I don’t know how this channel was hidden so long from me, as it is BY FAR the best gun tube channel. There are others with 1/10 of the quality of this, yet they have 10x the subs. Just keep rocking it man, its only a matter of time that your channel hits critical mass and you shoot up to top 3 at least!
Thank you for your AWESOME work!
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722k subscribers is a massive amount. It's x3.5 million times more than my sub count.
Totaly agree.🎉
@@threethrushes no doubt, and well earned. I was cryptically comprairing it to demo ranch which IMO sucks razors and he has 10mil!
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Got more respect for those who were faced against this monster of a weapon during WWII. Holy moly...
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Hard to believe Russian soldiers charged head first into these guns. The terror must have been extreme.
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You forgot the Americans.
@@paulfrehley7352
No I didn't. The Americans didn't charge a million men straight into German lines. Americans had better support logistics where as Russians were thrown directly into the meat grinder.
Thanks for having me out! Was a great time
Pleasure having you out . We will be making some awesome content coming up . I really liked your last video with Linkin park
This is one of the better things I have seen in a long time.
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9:58 I can see why D-Day was so brutal back then
Battle for Stalingrad ( Russia )was 4 Times more brutal than D Day and everyone ignores that.
Soviets suffered alot to take their city back from Germans
@@panzerrjcb they were soviets and executed their own soldiers so it deserves to be ignored
@@lRoguel Nope: Soviet blood saved the world in ww2, dont forget they were allies, so you are forced to aknowledge them. You deserve praise for what you did in ww2 sure, but for each yankee soldier that died on the Battlefield 20 more Russian soldiers died defending their Homeland. We arent talking about politics, we are talking about loss of life, so get out of your high horse and aknowledge that Russian troops absorbed the brunt of the entire German forces. Here on Europe we all understand that Soviet blood opened Berlin
A graphic illustration of the power of this weapon, a form of which is still in service today. Much respect to the men who had to face it.
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In the reality, machine gunners have fired very rarely a complete belt "in one go" - the barrel gets overheated dramatically and gets just destroyed. Short bursts of 5 to 10 rounds were common. I have heard from German veterans that in 1944-1945 it was even prohibited for them to fire long bursts out of MG-42 because ammo was not enough - the production rates could not keep up with the needs of the front troops.
Yeeeesssss the power of German engineering and fighting prowess presented perfectly absolutely stunning
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My grandpa was MG34 gunner (707Inf.Div), he got some cool stories to tell.
That is awesome, I like talking to veterans. I have heard sone crazy stuff as well
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The name given by Brazilian soldiers to the MG42 was Lurdinha, a soldier's wife said the sound was like a sewing machine.
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My grandfather was a balistic zombie in moon war 2. When he served at an mg42 for the first time he noticed a strange and very loud noise but this is a very valuable documentary. American science at its finest.
That is pretty cool
Bro was dust before he hit the floor 😅
Thank you for watching I appreciate it
@@columbiawarmachine9795 no probz 💪💪
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Yes it was a brutal time
I am smiling, i am amazed and scared all at once! I like that you gave us all the opportunity to see content like this. But man i wished no one ever had to make this experience in real life. Greetings from Germany.
I agree with you! I like my guns but I don’t ever want to see anyone have to go through the horror of war. Greetings from Ohio thank you for watching .
in ww2 they taught the soldiers for D-Day that the mg42 wasn't as scary as it sounded, and to keep going. :(
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It got so, so many people killed, they did the same with other weapons like panzer 4, panther, and tiger, which also got many, many people killed
Imo d-day is overrated for this machine gun. I believe the hurtgen forest was where it shined
@@chillout8320 you could be right , I think there were some battles on the eastern front that must have been brutal
Awesome video as always!! Thanks for spending the money, time and effort to show this amazing footage!!!
This gives people what these mg 42s are capable of they are sone chipper shredders lol
Just for the record...I don't think anyone is ever disappointed by your videos bud! 🤣
Thank you , I can say I give a lot of effort ! I know I can make them better I am working on it
Thank you again for your support I appreciate it
@@columbiawarmachine9795 Absolutely brother!
This needs a collaboration with Ballistic High Speed
Already did one video with them , we will have a few this year
10:35 American soldiers looking over at their best friend they’ve known their entire life on D-Day:
Definitely
Holy moly!
That ballistic dummy ate more shots than officer Megan Hull!!
Lol,
Lol, I get that reference.
: o
Even by WWII comparison of crimes against humanity, that dummy died a very cruel and unusual death.
*BRUH*
"The Führer's Buzzsaw" was an apt name.
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Hi, I'm from germany. Everytime when my grandpa saw a war movie on tv, he was always telling me that the gun sounds and shotting rounds were fake. In reality the MG42 has made no fast "tok tok tok tok tok tok tok" like every other MG....in reality it was like "grrrrrrrrrrrrr".....like a jigsaw. Here you can see it exactly! That's why it was called "Hitler-Säge" in Germany.
Got to be the most terrifying gun ever made
It is a truly beast of a weapon
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It's hard to fathom how brutal and gruesome WW2 really was
I agree it was a crazy time .
And yet WW1 was worse in terms of combat. 22,000 dead British in the first 16 hours of The Battle of the Somme.
Die "Lieblingswaffe" meines Großvaters gewesen.
There were more than five MG 42s at Omaha Beach. The 15 resistance nests there contained some 85 machine guns, not all operational. Some were MG 34s and water cooled Polish machine guns. Of course there were also mortars and artillery on those 6000 meters of Hell.
There might have been in Normandy, but Omaha beach had 5 from the research I have done
@@columbiawarmachine9795Heinrich Severloh of WN 62 fame said 15 nests with 85 MGs of all types. Just look at a map of German defenses at Omaha Beach.
@@blastulae ok , I was not there , but research I did said they had 5 on Omaha beach .
@@columbiawarmachine9795Your research is wrong, as seconds of Googling would show. Omaha was defended by a reinforced division.
@@columbiawarmachine9795OK, maybe only five of 85 MG sites had MG 42s at Omaha, with the others equipped with different MGs.
Many MG 42 gunners got mad and had psychlogical problems, when they saw, what their weapon had done with the enemy bodies. It was called Hitler`s chainsaw. Greetings from Bremen, Germany. Happy Easter!
I have heard that before. Greetings from Ohio Happy Easter as well thank you for watching!
Source? I am calling that bullshit
@@virviri1448 what do you mean I am sure this happened people are only human
@@virviri1448read it up the MG42 actually got a nickname called Hitler's buzzsaw/The devil's paintbrush "Source" Articles
Das MG ist das tödliches welches ich kenne , ich habe das MG 3 also den Nachfolger bei der Bundeswehr als MGschütze gehabt und das war gebremst und genauso tödlich , das MG 42 und Vorgänger hießen damals nicht umsonst Kreissäge oder Fleischwolf .😉 Aber schön das Ihr die Legende der Waffe aufrecht erhaltet .Danke fürs Video.
Translation :
The MG is the most deadly one I know, I had the MG 3 as the successor in the Bundeswehr as a machine gunner and it was braked and just as deadly, the MG 42 and its predecessor were not called Back then, it was not for nothing that we had a circular saw or a meat grinder
.😉 But it's nice that you have the legend of the weapon maintained .Thanks for the video.
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Ive never smashed a sub button so hard. One gun channel to another, great show lad.
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Mg42 the famous Lurdinha so called by the Brazilian army that fought in Italy against the Nazis. Or also known as Hitler's laugh. (Glory to our soldiers.)
Absolutely amazing. I can’t believe what they did to the ballistic dummies lol!
This is the buzz saw. It lives up to the name for sure lol
I've seen U.S. Army training films from 1943 or 44 where the instructor told the students not to fear the MG 42 and that it was overrated as a weapon.
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And when we hit the beach at Normandy, those things scattered body parts everywhere
Yes , it is sad to think about what hell soldiers went through. They were the greatest generation
yes that must have been hell
@@ColumbiaFence absolutely
The best machine gun in WW2 and even today it would outperform most modern guns.
Sweet video war machine. If y'all have thee time it would be cool to see what they can do at long range. Thanks a bunch keep it up man!
Patton- We fought the wrong side.
He wanted the Germans to help fight Russia! Scary times back then anything could have happened
Given the body count the USSR stacked it's not even a question.
There's places in Russia that you cannot turn a shovel without bringing up bones.
Another idea, but harder to set up, in the army we had training films showing how to set up an MG for indirect ambush. At say 2 or 4 km you would mount a high angle and zero to land in BC a terrain pinch point. So when enemy is spotted you open fire and the bullets start landing all over the place . Low in energy but lethal. The films showed balloons on sticks and bullets scattering over say a 15 meter circle with MG tight on the pintle mount. The fast mg 42 much better at this.
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Late actor and WW2 Vet Charles Durning was there.
I could imagine the PTSD and decades of nightmares he suffered.
This was horrifying.
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Quality video mate, love from Scotland 🏴❤
just cant get over what the soldiers must have went through, absolutely insane 🪖❤
Yes this is a chipper shredder
"It's bark is worse than its bite"
Its bite:
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Awesome video man!!! You are the best!!!
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Well, I definitely don't envy my grandpa, who was fighting Germans in Europe until the end of the war. And survived it.
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Subscribed. Awesome video.
Keep growing the 2A community!
I can't imagine how terrifying it must've been to have to charge *at* such a weapon
Yes , I would not want to face this beast
Met a Pz Grenadier coy comd on a battlefield tour in Italy in 1999. He described his coy defensive deployment with only 48 soldiers.
I asked him: How did you evaluate combat effectiveness for your coy?
His response: I had 24 x MG42s and 2 men per MG. I was combat effective.
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36,000 RPM …600 RPS …that’s a lot of lead heading towards your targets!😉
in Lithiuanian military MG3 has been nicknamed the meat grinder for a while
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Never thought I'd see 7 mg42s
Damn, you guys need a Phantom high speed camera to capture this utter insanity in super duper, ultra slow motion (in technicolour).
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Definition of overkill.
Lol, it shows the power of this ww2 mg
I'm always pleased with the vids never disappointed.
Thank you for watching . I have some good ones coming up
not sure why but this made me want to go watch the first battle scene of saving private ryan
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Based on the info I have read in my 72 years on earth, the actual scenes of what happened on Omaha Beach could never be shown to the public…probably for the fear it would generate in the minds of draftable age men😎😕
It is amazing that any of our soldiers even survived the D-Day landing....
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interesting observation, mg42 are criticized for their high fire ratio, basically they waste ammo in inaccuracy, BUT, they were thought to shoot accurate burts of round, maximizing the deadly effects, obviously with good training
MG 34 / 42 : 1200 rounds per minute, how many for MG44 ? 1400 rpm ! MG 44 a ghost ? some collectors says no....
I resume : MG the Queen of the machine gun ! thanks for sharing, lucky you are to could fired them, in my country I have this in my hands and in order of working : I directly go to jail ! take care Bro's : )
That sucks you can not shoot in your country ! Thank you for watching I appreciate it
Can you imagine hearing this and then seeing your squad mate melt in front of you? Jesus christ
I would not want to face this beast
One of the most beautiful weapons ever produced
That would have been terrifying to have to be in a battle against such a devastatingly powerful weapon
Omg I would not want to face it. No way
Good thing they dont need batteries. Great video!
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@@columbiawarmachine9795 i have! thats awesome too! Did you replace the smoke alarm batteries?
Have a great day!!
@@kurtknocke8797 lol, not yet but since you reminded me I will have to take care of it lol. Thank you again for watching and commenting I really appreciate it
10:29 dude that noise is terrifying
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"I fired the weapons during my service time in the Bundeswehr. Approximately 500 meters with tracer rounds, 200 shots per round, field shooting exercise. Three repetitions."
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Incredible, just INCREDIBLE, can't imagine...😲
Remember getting lit up by those, they makes pretty scary pops. 😶🌫️
Definitely, thank you for watching
Yall caught the MG42 Flu with some Heinrich Severloh swag
Lol, definitely! Did you see my last video MG 42 Madness
@@columbiawarmachine9795 I'm going to check it out! Just heard you talk about it at the end of this one, awesome video and I hope nobody ever tries to tread on you with all those bone saws lol
Madness is really MG 42 mad,bad boy,what a machine wow.😮🎉
@@tonibratina thank you 🙏 I have some good stuff on the way
Severloh'e "story" is just that...a story. Not reality
Great weapon, but keep in mind that so lang fire bursts will ruin the barrels. Short bursts make more sense and will not harm the barrel so much..
One US WWII Veteran on Omaha Beach said he saw a guy getting ripped in half when they entered the beach up to the sand! This explains it all!!