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"A comparison of
American and
German automatic weapons
Accuracy vs.
Firepower"
War Department film FB-181
Reupload of a previously uploaded film with improved video & sound.
Public domain film from the
US National Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and one-pass brightness-contrast-color correction & mild video noise reduction applied.
The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original).
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StG_44
The StG 44 (
Sturmgewehr 44, literally "storm (or assault) rifle (model of 19)44") was an assault rifle developed in
Nazi Germany during
World War II that was the first of its kind to see major deployment and is considered by many historians to be the first modern assault rifle It is also known under the designations
MP 43 and
MP 44 (
Maschinenpistole 43,
Maschinenpistole 44 respectively), which denote earlier development versions of the same weapon with some differences like a different butt end, muzzle nut, shape of the front sight base or with an unstepped barrel, all only visible with close inspection.
MP 43, MP 44, and StG 44 were different designations for what was essentially the same rifle, with minor updates in production. The variety in nomenclatures resulted from the complicated bureaucracy in Nazi Germany.
Developed from the Mkb 42(H) "machine carbine", the StG44 combined the characteristics of a carbine, submachine gun and automatic rifle. StG is an abbreviation of Sturmgewehr. The name was chosen for propaganda reasons and literally means "storm rifle" as in "to storm (i.e. "assault") an enemy position". After the adoption of the StG 44, the
English translation "assault rifle" became the accepted designation for this type of infantry small arm.
The rifle was chambered for the
7.92×33mm Kurz cartridge. This shorter version of the
German standard (
7.92x57mm) rifle round
... had less range and power than the more powerful infantry rifles of the day,
Wehrmacht studies had shown that most combat engagements occurred at less than
300 m, with the majority within
200 m...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thompson_submachine_gun
The
Thompson is an American submachine gun, invented by
John T. Thompson in
1919, that became infamous during the
Prohibition era. It was a common sight in the media of the time, being used by both law enforcement officers and criminals. The Thompson was also known informally as: the "
Tommy Gun", "Trench
Broom", "Trench Sweeper", "
Chicago Typewriter", "
Chicago Piano", "
Chicago Style", and "The
Chopper"...
Development
The Thompson
Submachine Gun was developed by
General John T. Thompson who originally envisioned an auto rifle (semi-automatic rifle) to replace the bolt action service rifles then in use. While searching for a way to allow such a weapon to operate safely without the complexity of a recoil or gas operated mechanism, Thompson came across a patent issued to
John Bell Blish in
1915 based on adhesion of inclined metal surfaces under pressure. Thompson found a financial backer,
Thomas F. Ryan, and started the
Auto-Ordnance Company in
1916 for the purpose of developing his auto rifle. The principal designers were
Theodore H. Eickhoff,
Oscar V.
Payne, and
George E. Goll. By late
1917, the limits of the
Blish Principle were discovered: rather than working as a locked breech, it functioned as a friction-delayed blowback action. It was found that the only cartridge currently in
U.S. service suitable for use with the lock was the
.45 ACP round. Thompson then envisioned a "one-man, hand-held machine gun" in .45 ACP as a "trench broom" for use in the on-going trench warfare of
World War I. Payne designed the gun itself and its stick and drum magazines.
The project was then titled "
Annihilator I", and by
1918, most of the design issues had been resolved. However, the war ended before prototypes could be shipped to
Europe.
At an Auto-Ordnance board meeting in 1919 to discuss the marketing of the "Annihilator", with the war over, the weapon was officially renamed the "Thompson Submachine Gun". While other weapons had been developed shortly prior with similar objectives in mind, the Thompson was the first weapon to be labeled and marketed as a "submachine gun"....
Early use
The Thompson first entered production as the M1921. It was available to civilians, though its high price resulted in few sales. (A Thompson with one
Type XX 20 shot "stick" magazine was priced at $
200.00, at a time when a
Ford automobile sold for $400.00
.) ...
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