Blitzkrieg German LMG teams (1939-42) 0326-week-4 1 radio operator/spotter

1 radio operator/spotter

practical and durable

including distort-spinners

horse grenadiers and line cavalry regiments

Shestakov converted over to the LaGG-3 which he flew until his death in 1944 - reportedly fighting his own private war with Stuka Ace Hans-Erich Rudel

Blitzkrieg German LMG teams (1939-42) 0326-week-4 1 radio operator/spotterThe physical weapon used by the German army in the light machine gun and medium machine gun role was actually the same most commonly the MG34 (augmented by captured foreign weapons) or later, the MG42. To utilise these weapons in the medium machine gun role and take full advantage of their sustained fire capabilities and accuracy, a sturdy Schweres Machinengewehr tripod was required. However, for many squads these tripods were too cumbersome and so