One of the scariest machine guns that the US and British armies faced in WW2 was the MG-42. With it's fast rate of fire it sounded like a buzz saw, almost a predecessor to the electric motor powered gatlings. This video from spottydog4477's channel features an old army training film where the narrator chides the soldiers that the mg-42's "bark is much worse than it's bite".
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The MG-42 and the US Army
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