20 rounds per second in a confined space is a little loud for a Fallschirmjäger MG 42 assistant gunner at Monte Cassino in early 1944



by jacksmachiningreveng

12 comments

  1. It makes me realize how many people must end up with ear damage during war. I know that’s the tip of the iceberg of issues soldiers will return with, but it almost seems like a guarantee.

  2. Any vets I know have a bad ear and a slightly less bad ear.

  4. Once of my friends who’s an air force mechanic was forced, despite his objections, to work on a plane that was parked right behind a B1 bomber that was doing afterburner testing on the tarmac. There was a jet blast deflector between them, but the sound was long and deafening. His hearing has never been the same since, and the military doesn’t give any fucks. Makes me really mad on his behalf.

  8. It uses the belts up so fast he can’t even get his hand up

  9. Did aircraft guard many years ago exactly where Phantom jets lit the after burners for take off. You could feel every internal organ vibrate.

  11. So nobody wants to even comment on imagining being on the other end of that belt rip? Elevated position, he’s raining down on men, our men.

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