MG 08

id: mg-08-194-2970796
title: MG 08
text: The Maschinengewehr 08, or MG 08, was the German Army's standard machine gun in World War I and is an adaptation of Hiram S. Maxim's original 1884 Maxim gun. It was produced in a number of variants during the war. The MG 08 served during World War II as a heavy machine gun in many German infantry divisions, although by the end of the war it had mostly been relegated to second-rate fortress units. The Maschinengewehr 08—so-named after 1908, its year of adoption—was a development of the license ma
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description: German World War I-era machine gun
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MG_08
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date modified: 2024-04-08T13:16:22Z
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