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During World War II, a German machine gun reshaped how infantry battles were fought and remembered. This film tells the story of the MG42, a weapon whose sound, firepower, and design left a lasting ...

Often overlooked by Western military historians, the Battle of Shanghai in 1937 was an early sign of the brutal urban combat ...

We take to a controlled live-fire range to shoot the MG-34 and MG-42, two iconic German machine guns of World War II. The video demonstrates their mechanics and vastly different rates of fire, ...

at the turn of the 20th century, machine guns had become one of the most devastating weapons that a soldier could equip. Some of the machine guns that first appeared in World War II are still in used ...