Selasa, 19 September 2017

Weapons Check | MG 42

Few firearms in history have achieved the notoriety of the Maschinengewehr 42, a general-purpose machine gun designed in Nazi Germany and used extensively by the Wehrmacht and the Waffen-SS during the second half of World War II. Allied troops grimly branded the MG 42 “Hitler’s buzz saw” because of the seamless ripping noise it made …

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