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Mac Pike lives in the northern, wooded section of New Jersey. He hunts a little, fishes a bit, and grows many vegetables. He splits firewood and infinitives with equal enthusiasm, and is often on the throwing end of interminable games of fetch.

Briefly me

My passion is ...

Liberty

I know too much about ...

Defeat

My parents always told me ...

How can you be sure that using the toaster in the bathtub isn't fun, until you try it out?

My childhood ambition ...

Astronaut

My favorite memory ...

A small border collie.

Why I write ...

Why not?

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Individual rights and freedoms in the country I love, being swept away as we watch and do nothing.

My first job ...

General purpose gopher

My best moment ...

It's nice to think that this may still be in the future.

My inspiration ...

Comes from many and various sources, some of which are completely unexpected. This keeps it all interesting.

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Arts & Humanities > The World Wars Weapons of war: The MG42: 1 of 1

When The Wehrmacht went to war in 1939 it carried into battle a well designed, highly successful automatic infantry support weapon identified as the Maschinengewehr 1934, or machine gun model 1934. This was shortened to MG34 in everyday use. The MG34 was extremely versatile, functioning as a light, bipod model weapon, as a tripod mounted medium machine gun, as an anti aircraft weapon and as the automatic weapon installed in tanks and other armored fighting vehicles. The M434 could be fired selectively as a single shot weapon or in full automatic mode simply by changing the way the tr...
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