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Originally Posted by Team Sergeant
mugwump,
Your experience with machineguns comes from where?
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TS
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TS, I think we were typing at the same time. The
only machinegun I know anything about is the MG 34. A long time ago a neighbor, who had been an ME-109 pilot (my then-girlfriend's father), and two of his friends (a US Army engineer who'd been in the Bulge in '44 and a second German emigre who'd fought briefly as an infantryman MG 34 gunner in France in '44) invited me to a shoot in another state. The German infantryman taught me the MG 34 over three days. Short time, I know, but the guy was meticulous -- I can still remember about every word. Funny, we both shot a couple of bursts on the MG 42 for the first time while there. His unit had only second-line weapons and he was wounded and captured after 2 months on the line. I also learned how to make mess-kit bacon, onions and potatoes like they made on the German line.
The Germans used to march in my town's Independence Day parade with all the US WWII vets. All three have passed away now.
Sorry for straying from my lane.