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Blitzkrieg German Support Group (HQ, Mortar & MMG)
Blitzkrieg HQ
German officers were competent and often experienced leaders. Junior officers were trained to take on the role of their immediate superiors, allowing them to use their initiative to take control of situations when necessary.
Blitzkrieg Medium Machine Gun Team
The Germans were equipped with two excellent machine guns: the MG34 and the MG42 – known to Allied troops as ‘Hitler’s Buzz Saw’ due to its distinctive noise, or ‘Spandau’. Unlike other armies, the Germans used the same machine gun both as a squad weapon with a bipod and as a tripod-mounted support weapon. The tripod provided a much more stable firing platform, making it easier to maintain sustained fire with the belt-feed system.
Blitzkrieg Medium Mortar Team
The standard German medium mortar of the war was the 80mm Granatwerfer 34. It was a very effective and accurate weapon capable of providing long-range, on-call fire support. It had a maximum range of 2,400 meters and could maintain a rate of fire of 15-20 rounds per minute.
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