soc.history.war.world-war-ii

On Feb 12, 3:09 am, "cl6...@gmail.com" wrote:
> Watched the Carentan episode of BoB yesterday on the history channel.
> Then I remembered something I was puzzled about when the series first
> came on years ago.
> I think it was the Holland episode when they became pinned down by a
> German MG firing from the roof and Lt Winters tells his men to get the
> MG-42 on the roof.
> Was this a normal practice to say what the actual model was firing at
> them?
> (this particular gun was taking toll on their group. His men would
> have tried to knock it out,
> whether it was a MG-42 or MG-34, just the same).
> Wouldn't the order just have been to get the machine gun up there?
> Just wondering if there was any historical basis on that particular
> line of the script.

I suppose in an actual combat situation the commander would want to
make sure his troops took out the MG-45 on the roof and not the other
one down the road. One could assume more than one MG-45 was in the
area.