My personal favorite is "12 O'Clock High." To me, the type of courage that it took to bore straight in to the target in the face of flak and...
All good, valid responses, and many thanks :) Shortages of materials and a disrupted transportation system would had to have had a negative...
Would tooling up to mass produce the 7.92 Kurz round used in the Stg really have been that difficult or would have put that much strain on the...
"In such situations the StG would be of immense help. " It would indeed. Good point!
I would certainly want to arm all riflemen in the infantry / vg divisions with these weapons. But if they are only being produced on a limited...
I am in agreement with Carronade. Put these rifles in the line companies of mobile units first - panzergrenedier battalions of panzer and...
If I get a little Christmas money this year, I will get a chronograph, a box of 30 caliber FMJ's and have a crack at a helmet. That 17 HMR is am...
I might see if I can buy a surplus helmet cheap, put it on a melon, and take it out to the shooting range for some informal testing. I am a little...
Wouldn't the falling 50 caliber MG bullet have the same terminal velocity as the falling 150 grain rifle bullet?
These questions are related to the indirect machine gun fire thread. What is the minimum velocity at which a bullet will puncture a typical...
Bolt Action Rifles by Frank de Haas, published 1971 by DBI books Inc., Page 44, beginning at the bottom of the middle column and extending to the...
In reading interviews with American and German veterans of WW2, it seems to me there is a marked difference in their feelings about being awarded...
Thank you for the input men! To be honest, some of the examples seem to me more like what I would call area fire, rather than indirect fire -...
I have read several accounts on this forum of indirect machine gun being employed - firing a machine gun at a target that it did not have a direct...
"...and did pretty well for himself promotion-wise, ..." Do you mean advancing through the ranks, or do you mean he did a good job of publicizing...
What about Hermann Balck? I believe he was decorated with the Diamonds to the Knight's Cross for his exploits on the Eastern Front.
One of the criticisms evidently leveled at the the BAR was its 20 round magazine. What I am wondering is: if this was indeed recognized as a...
Once the Allies secured these ports in August 1944, were they only used to supply the drive up the Rhone Valley or were supplies from these ports...
They are selling Mosin Nagants at Cabela's for $99.00 now. A great chance for someone interested in firing WW2 era small arms.
Check on online auction service like gunbroker.com too. You can get an idea of what price range these rifles are going for. I would throw another...
