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Why U.S. Failed to Copy German MG42 Most history channels repeat the same few facts about the MG42's rate of[...] ...

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 ...

A soldier’s bible from more than 100 years ago still bears the scars of war – two bullet holes from where it “took the brunt” of a German machine-gun attack. Private Leslie Friston, who served with ...

As Allied forces pushed into Germany in 1945, one American officer repeatedly advanced alone against entrenched German positions. Armed with a carbine and pistol, he charged machine gun nests, ...

Russell Dunham, 89, a World War II Army veteran who received the Medal of Honor, the military's highest decoration for valor, after he assaulted three German machine gun emplacements, killed nine ...