Allied Weapons Weren't That Bad

It's common knowledge that German weapons of WW2 were far superior to anything Allied. That's what I'd tell myself if I were caught in this situation. We hope you enjoy this sketch and thanks to Cloaked for sponsoring this one!
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[SquireComedy]

It's lucky for the Allies that the Germans never thought to combine two StG 44s into an StG 88...

[AnimarchyHistory]

Squire's MG-42 is so advanced, he even has magazine pouches for it.

[Andy-iqrk]

"Our weapons are so good we're waiting for metal to catch up" is an incredible line.

[Kraken]

We've come a long way from those carboard cut out weapons

[Someguyfromtheinternet]

I love how they just have every Allied gun on every front at their fingertips. WW2 was a lot more easier when you could materialize any gun into your hands..

[NolDragon]

"Barely Rapid, Empty Now" was such a great delivery.

[unsuisseegare]

i'm suprised they didn't make the joke"it costs reischmark to fire this weapon, for twelve seconds"

[edmb]

Ironic fact: when many of the Americans supply depots were being overrun during the Battle of the Bulge, one of the popular Americans guns they actually captured was the M1 Carbine.

[andrewthompson]

I remember being at supply once. I asked, "why is everything an M2?"
I was immediately kicked out of the supply room

[Scav]

Not only are they funny they seem like they'd be an absolute pleasure to be around in real life too, By far my favourite channel

[connorinacar]

The funniest part about the supposed “garand ping was a give away” thing is implying any German could hear the ping of an M1 over the constant storm of 30-6 and 7.92 Mauser they were flinging at each other.

[timtheskeptic]

The Marine Raiders field report of the M1 carbine's performance is pretty succinct: "will penetrate Japanese helmets at 100 yards."
Keyboard warriors don't seem to understand that a 30 carbine round performs just as well as a 357 magnum.

[BritWBrot]

Never disappoints Should be an entire
film from this man

[Rona]

"barely rapid empty now" That joke about the bren gun is funny and accurate in the same time

[Mr_Blonde-rukd]

They didn't know about the allied superweapon. The 1911 which won 3 wars. Jokes aside, lovely sketch as usual, I hope one day we'll have one about ww1 weapons as well. Plenty of fun stuff to pick there too!

[yuuzyerbrejn]

It wasn't well known that many B-17s were taken down by MG-42's, and it's thought the number must be simply staggering. I like the website idea, I'll be there. I remember your first WT vids, still funny, and look at you now. Brilliant!

[TheOz]

One interesting thing about the earlier MG-42 is how it had the tendency to fire out of battery sometimes because bolt bounces on the breech face. Good thing in the late war that Germany started using steel cased ammunition so damage from OOB discharges were minimal. Later MG-42s and modifications made post-war introduced a spring to prevent bouncing, which carried over to the MG-3, naturally.

Mind you, steel cased ammunition was terrible for the regular rifleman. If the Mauser gets heat up even a tiny bit, you will start getting stuck cases. Not that the typical German soldier was expected to shoot rapidly; they relied so much on the machine gun that the training for the rifleman involved mainly snap shooting and not quick follow up shots unlike the British.

And the British and Commonwealth still trained their soldiers rapid fire despite the infantry became Bren gun magazine carriers. One way to get around that particular limitation--make everybody carry ammo and also have a device that can quickly load Bren gun magazines with standard Lee-Enfield chargers/stripper clips.

Surprised that the BAR didn't take the mention, but the US Army did make a really bad decision with the M1918A2. It's still functioned as intended, of course, but the US military refused to modernized the BAR despite the Colt Monitor existed and FN in Europe had the D model, both the latter featured pistol grips. And oh, it should be noted that the FN MAG machine gun and thus the M240 is really a BAR on the inside turned upside down and made to be belt-fed.

[deaddad]

The administrative results reference hit me like a truck

[bdleo]

This video is 100% accurate (unlike Allied weapons)

[Highice]

I read somewhere that Germans hated the MG-42, as it hemraged ammunition at such a high rate that each soldier was made a pack mule for extra machine gun ammo in addition to the rest of their kit. They would have much prefered a Vickers gun or a .30 calaber machine gun instead.