a German recoil-operated air-cooled general-purpose machine gun used extensively by the Wehrmacht and the Waffen-SS during the second half of World War II.
The MG 42 is air-cooled, open bolt, recoil-operated general-purpose machine gun. It fires in the full automatic mode only. The operation functions as follows:.
The MG42, also known has Hitler's Buzzsaw, is a general purpose machine gun that was developed in Nazi Germany and entered service with the Wehrmacht in 1942.
The MG 42 (MG standing for Maschinengewehr, literally "Machine Rifle" but usually translated as "machine gun" in this context) is perhaps the deadliest machine ...
This study explores the technological development, varied roles and lasting influence of the revolutionary MG 34 and MG 42 machine guns and their postwar ...