The StG 44 - In the Movies

Peliculas,boolibud, estupidese, los americanos, usaban , la thomson calibre 45 en los tanques, mp 44, no, ni los rusos, por el cartucho , que tenia , stg 44, era dificil de conseguir, porque la stg eran para fuerzas, especiales, se fabricaron , 150000, no todo soldado aleman las portaban.

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Intermediate not intermediary

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Wonder if there were real life and occasionally fictional times where the gun was deceptively painted like the AK-47 post-WW2?

Hi Johnny, in the historically accurate (as much as possible, that is) Vietnam movie Danger Close an enemy of the Australian troops is seen with an STG-44. Some of these weapons would have been brought over by the French after WW2, but many were also supplied by Russia who had warehouses of captured enemy weapons & ammunition.

The weapon in Fury was period appropriate and used properly. There is plenty of other things to take issue with in Fury.

My Father served in northern Italy on ww2, used a captured p38 for many months. He couldn't stand the to him clunky inaccurate browning 191. He akways worried about the consequences of capture with it even though he picked one out of a number of examples on a table in Modena Italy.

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It’s weird how no one talks about the hood bolt system it has which it has that inspired the FAL in some aspects. The STG-44 looks like a early Cold War rifle but it is not.

Yeah, I found a video I hadn't already seen. This was another fun one Johnny. Thanks.

Though only 30 were made theres an StG 45(M) Too

Why German have ppsh 41?

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The main reason to use enemy weapons is conservation of your own. Picture overthrowing an enemy position, but other enemy troops are in the area. Pick up the weapons dropped by the dead and fire until their magazines are empty and then drop them. One, it conserves your own ammo. Two, it confuses the enemy by firing their own weapons at them. Also, multiple times in history both sides in a conflict HAVE used the same weapons - USSR vs. Afghanistan both using AK-47s, Argentina vs. UK in the Falkland Islands using FN FALs. Neither side would hesitate to pick up and use the other's weapons or ammo.

The Germans loved to use Russian SMGs such as the PPSh 41.

Me playing any ww2 game: Alright get lost scram youre fired get out of here you moochers!
Kar98, Gewehr and Mp40: 🙄😠😡
Me: Thats right keep moving!
STG: 😔
Me: Except you you stay!
STG: 😍

Fun fact the flamethrower and sub machine gun are invented by the Germans

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@Johnny Johnson can do complete review of Forest Grump. Thanks mate. The bit where assembles his rifle in record time cracks me up every time 😂

Funnily enough, Hitler actually hated the STG-44. He kept trying to get the project scrapped, but his officers kept it going in the background.

It was only when the gun proved its combat effectiveness on the Eastern Front, being specifically requisitioned by frontline troops, that he would change his tune.

With the exception of Norman, the tank crew in Fury were grizzled and battle hardened. The STG 44 was an appropriate PDW for the tank commander.

I hope you do one with swords, like you did on sidearms.

FURY the fakest ww2 movie ever.

I don’t understand why the allied training films never showed the STG 44?

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Regarding the usage of enemy weapons, Soviet scouts in WW2 used MP40s in mission that required them to go behind German lines. Because in the event that they got into a firefight, the familiar weapon sound would not (hopefully) cause a huge alarm

Stg 44 abuelo del AK 47

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“Mad” jack churchill has probably the last known kill with a bow and arrow in wartime, possibly forever now

I remember when I was a kid playing cod, I would always pick up enemy weapons so that I would have virtually infinite ammo.

hitler actuall hated the stg and his generals forced it through into production

Honestly not needing much ammo as a tank crewman, them having an stg makes more sense than an average infantryman

Brad Pitt probably just found the gun, maybe taking it off a german as a trophy, then just decided he'd use it because it was a good gun and ammo for it is plentiful when in enemy territory. Lots of American GIs did that

Slightly modified StG44 also starred in many Soviet bloc movies, playing the role of M16. For example, several StG44/M16 hybrids were used in the 20th Century Pirates movie (1979).

The remark about the scottish soldier really made my day. Imagine you are a fallschirmjäger in Italy, you are already losing the war and being sieged, and you see a guy in a skirt (I know it's a kilt, I use skirt for comedic impact) charging uphill at you with a broadsword. The whole thing is Monty Python's sketch worthy.

Fury's fail is definitely not the use of the STG44, but the whole other shit this propaganda of a movie is

I’m glad you settled on the fact that many combatants used what they had access to during WWII. I don’t see any real issue with depictions of Allied troops using Axis weapons and vice versa. My grandfather served in WWII and while he never liked to share his experiences, after his passing I started doing a lot of research and have spent the last 19 years absolutely enthralled with that time period (war related or otherwise). There was an absolutely insane amount of “less than ideal” circumstances that necessitated the use of whatever was at hand. As for Pitt’s character wielding the STG-44, I have no issue with that either. The STG was innovative for its time, effective and efficient as well. I think it makes sense that an individual with the intelligence of War Daddy would be cognizant of those factors and would look to leverage any advantage available. I’ve heard the argument that the STG-44 was the first AR and that it was designed to cover the roles of 3 other weapon systems (LMG, SMG, Rifle) but to do so in a single platform. I do agree that ammunition would be a huge concern unless they were fortunate enough to have captured cases of it. I apologize for the lengthy comment, I got caught up in it.

Compact? Relatively so, compared to, say, the Kar98k.

Light? Only if 11+ pounds (loaded) is light!

Trouble is, for instance, in Fury - the big trouble would be getting ammunition for it. (Mentioned in the vid).

The STG-44 is originally what got me into loving historic weapons. I used it all the time in a video game as a kid and kept loving the look of it into adult hood. Now I own a reproduction of one chambered in .22 LR. Not the heavy hitting original round but still a joy to plink away with.

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What was the film at the very start of this clip? The Germans in the trenches?

I actually saw some old footage of a tank moving through a field in Germany during the Bulge 1945. It was only for a brief second, but you can clearly see a G.I. moving up with the tank holding a STG44 in the air. The footage cuts very quickly after, but you can tell it’s an STG due to the distinctive look.