In the Bundeswehr (German modern army) we were only allowed to fire 25 rounds in training at a distance of 25 meters at a paper target at a time. You Americans are lucky....
@@UnchartedHQ Ha Ha.... then it was a high price to pay for them. You could have waited until we won, then not only would you have them for free, no - you would also be able to speak German now..... (just kidding) 😉
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.
@@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.
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.
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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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.
@@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.
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!!!!”
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.
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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@@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
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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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 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.
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 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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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.
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.
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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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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.
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
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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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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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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!
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 used to question how in just over six weeks, German armed forces overran Belgium and the Netherlands, drove the British Expeditionary Force from the Continent, captured Paris, and forced the surrender of the French government. After seeing this video, I no longer ask that question.
Kid, what nonsense are you writing? Have you made up your mind that it was only thanks to a rapid-firing machine gun (which, by the way, did not exist in 1940) that they captured all this? A whole host of factors contributed to this. So you should keep asking yourself this question, because shredding a dummy with seven MGs won't explain it to you (LOL).
the MG 42 was basically the same beast as the earlier MG 34 and didn’t offer much of an improvement in performance, it relied on cheaper materials and simpler manufacturing methods to speed up production.
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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.
The German soldiers gave the MG 42 nicknames such as “Hitler saw”, “Singing saw” or “Bone saw”. The term “Hitler scythe” is also often found, which arises from the similarities between the shooting technique used by the machine gunners and the swinging movement of the harvesting tool when it is used. Furthermore, the term “Hitler violin” also circulated based on the “Stalin organ”. The term “Hitler's Buzzsaw” for the MG 42 is still known today among the American population. (Wikipedia)
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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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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.
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.
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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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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