Gen. Pershing did a study during WW1 on caliber effectiveness vs cost and came up with the .50 cal. performance requirements. This was a multi purpose cartridge and machine gun for use against soft targets, enemy personnel, lightly armored vehicles and small craft and planes. John Browning came up with the .50 BMG which was an enlarged version of the 30-06. It passed the tests and minor improvements in the M2 were made along the way to WW2, where it was widely used. Cost of ammo and guns was also a factor, and it was determined based on field performance that it was more cost efficient than the 20 mm.
Really also a fact and also a good recommendation for JJ on a standalone video about that weapon along with any other guns of Browning like the 1917 water cooled gun it looks like a Maxim but has a pistol grip and also this other 1 that is a lighter version of the M2 the M1919 machine gun seen it modified as the Stinger during WW2 and also for the 1917 said a soldier named John Basilone carried it all by himself and fired it.
Yes, but at the second half of ww2, 20 mm was better on planes. In fact, during Korea, american planes had .50 cal but it lacks efficiency agains't newer russian jet planes. Problem solved when they switched to 20 mm. Improving performances of the planes demanded stronger materials. Thus the need for more punch. Please note it doesn't nullate or contradict what you said.
After WW2 the 250-round "tombstone" ammo cans were not commonly seen, the guns being fed by the standard 105-rd ammo cans. Easier to move, quicker to set up and available in the supply system. By the way, for trivia, the WW2 M3 chassis that was factory-equipped with the M45 mount was the M16 (M17 if produced by International Harvester for Lend-Lease), in Europe there was an excess of M2 half tracks. Some units with the M51 trailer-mounted systems mounted the M45 mount onto M2 halftracks, creating the "M16B". Later, when the Army found itself short of M16 half tracks, the took surplus M3A1 APC half tracks and mounted M45 mounts in them. The mounts had to be raised as the APC version didn't have fold-down panels on the sides. These were M16A1.
I remember once reading that they experimented with the M45 Quadmount in the Vietnam War as a "localized rapid jungle clearance tool" but that wasn't viable due to ammunition consumption over engineer time and that it was proposed as the machinegun mount for the Humvee but apparently concerns were raised over whether the Humvee's frame could handle the recoil of all four machine guns firing at once.
I built the M16 (Quad on a half track) as a kid from a Tamiya kit. Still my favourite model due to its awesome firepower. One shows up in Band of Brothers in the episode where they cross the river to take prisoners.
Mark, my father was also in WW2 and was trained to be part of a Quad 50 team. I have a few pictures of training going on out in the field at whatever base they trained at. But when my dad was sent to France in late 1944, he was moved into an infantry unit and never had another thing to do with a Quad 50.
I'm actually surprised that you included a scene from the Danish spy comedy "slå først Frede". It's literally a movie from 1965 and is a James Bond parody. So, massive thumbs up for that. However, an M-45 is also seen in the Danish monster movie "Reptilicus" from 1961.
Well, to be brutally honest, peoples opinion about them, I never really cared about. So, I have quite frankly never understood why people need to share that type of useless info. But to each their own.
My nextdoor neighbor was positioned on one of these in an anti-aircraft battalion as a member of Patton's Third Army. During the Battle of the Bulge when the 3rd Army was heading North for a counterattack towards towards Bastogne, scouts reported an immobilized but still manned King Tiger that still had an operational turret and a few foxholes guarding a road that made a huge shortcut through the Ardennes. The problem was that none of the M4s in the area had a 76mm gun, so the NCO told my neighbor and his truck crew to to charge at the tank and foxholes so that their shermans could flank the King Tiger and hit it from the rear. When given this order, my neighbor, a devout catholic who never cursed towards anyone, said "Go fuck yourself" to the NCO and refused to do it. The NCO threatened to get my neighbor court marshalled but upon hearing the plan, their commanding CO also told the NCO to go fuck himself and just waited for a 76mm M4 to get to the position and take out the Tiger 2 because it's turret was too slow to react. He also got woken up by a German strafing run early in the morning during Bodenplatte. He was one of the only people not hungover from partying on New Year's Eve and was able to scare off the inexperienced Luftwaffe pilots who were strafing in straight lines by just firing towards them. After Bodenplatte, he never saw immediate combat because the Luftwaffe was reduced to intercepting strategic bombing raids and scouting. He passed away last January just a month before turning 98 after battling pancreatic cancer for nearly 4 years and I miss him every day.
@@zhicaofang2354 sad part is there's nothing you could do against something like this even behind rocks or walls, whatever I imagine it would shred through most materials
@@fiend_gaming Boulders and dirt mounds would work fine, but the Chinese troops usually attacked in large waves (hence why such firepower was being used against infantry in the first place).
I got close to a quad 50 at an mg shoot at Knob Creek. When the Briggs and Stratton gas engine starts up, it's reminiscent of a carnival ride. But when the guns lit up, I wanted to get the hell away.
My father downed a German plane at the bridge at Remagen while using a Quad 50. The pilot parachuted to safety and was introduced to my dad. Imagine when the pilot met a 19 year old, German speaking SAILOR! Dad was a SeaBee attached to the Army Core of Engineers, and had just delivered the Quad 50. His photo is in the museum at the Remagen bridge site. Happy Veterans Day Dad. He enlisted on his 17th Birthday, lived until age 84, and would be 98 if still with us…
Korea, 1951. My and one of his buddies were asleep in a shallow foxhole after a long day's march. At about 0300, one of these things backed into position about 10 yards behind them and started plastering the nearby hillside. My dad and his buddy thought the world was coming to an end, but all they could do was cover their ears and wait it out. Eventually, the gunner stopped firing so the crew could change barrels. It was then that they decided to pull that famous maneuver known as "getting the hell outta there."
The moment I clicked on this, I knew there'd be a scene from Waterworld. GLaD to see some Burt Gummer action in there too. He described his "half-quad" has a "dual fifty anti-aircraft turret mount."
French at Dien Bien Phu had two of them on halftracks Fought and fired till the very end from strongpoints Juno and Sparrowhawk Last crew manned fire source available on last day All other artillery and mortars knocked out
I saw, heard, and most definitely felt Mike Dillon's quad .50 (Dillon Presicion, Dillon Aero) in the Arizona desert during a SOF convention back in the 90s. An awesome spectacle! RIP Mike.
My Dad served in the Korean War on a halftrack with a quad 50. He said they never shot down a airplane but a lot of opposition troops with it. He described the devastation created was absolutely horrific. RIP Pop.
Replace the brownings with Quad Mounted Mini Guns and pretty much every single battle will be one-sided, not even kamikaze won't be able to make it their targets
'Ma-Duce' is iconic, but 'Kraut Mower' is muh' fav'... I have a model of one made from metal on a Half-track, in which the wheel's and tracks move and the 4x .50 quadmount traverse's.
Dillon Aero brought their quad mount to the Big Sandy shoot, they replaced the 4 M2's with 4 M134 miniguns, definitely worth looking up, especially the night shoot with only tracer rounds
My Dad fought in Patton's Third Army, 4th Armored Division, 66th Armored Field Artillery Battalion as a scout. He was a kid who drove around in a jeep, finding places for M7 Priest set up and start slinging 105mm artillery. In addition to all of this, there would be other jeeps, ma duces transporting whatever was needed, a few M3 GMC half tracks with there 75mm gun and then were the meat choppers. My Dad and the people who served with him - he was a mighty corporal after all - did it all when troop strength dwindled. What, you're a cook, grab a rifle and get out on the line. Hey, Corporal Wright, you are a scout for those M7 Priests? Yes sir. Good, now grab some men off of those M7's, hook up with that cook and some of his people and start searching door to door, if they sound weird, kick 'em in, toss some grenades, then hose 'em down with machine gun fire. If it's to fortified, by pass it and will bring the meat chopper in, fix 'em right up. My Dad understood what fix 'em right up meant and hoped like hell he would have to dig those bodies out of the rubble. The meat chopper did a great job, depending upon what side of it you were on. My Dad had many jobs and was eventually promoted up to a Sargent. His discharge papers say that the battles he fought in were Northern France, Ardennes, Rhineland and Central Europe. Parts of Patton's 4th Armored Division were broken up into Combat Commands. CCA was Combat Command A, and CCB and CCR which stood for Combat Command Reserve. I don't know what Combat Command was tasked with checking out this small camp called Ohrdruf but my Dad was apart of it and a few day later they moved on to Buchenwald. War is crazy, watch your friend standing there one minute and next, all you find is an arm and his helmet. That's war and that sucks! Having a 19 your old kid like my Dad have to wander around the ruins of Ohrdruf and the see the horrors of Buchenwald, that bends a man's mind. Many year after, I asked him about this and he thought for a moment, like he was digging something out of the back of his brain that he had deeply buried. "The cold... the God awful SMELL... Bodies stacked to the ceiling... and THE OVENS WERE STILL WARM. He trailed off after that and changed the conversation around. My Mom told me the next day that Dad had a rough night of sleep that night. I'll end this with the fact that Patton's 3rd Army was eventually ordered into Czechoslovakia and were forced to stop at the town in Pilsen, which to this very day, celebrates the arrival of Patton's Third Army. The 3rd Army stayed only two week's as the Russians where not happy having Americans in THEIR territory. As for my Dad, he stay on as a part of Patton's 3rd Army and as a part of the occupation force until he shipped home in March of 1946.
Was visiting the museum in Bastogne a couple weeks ago, they've got a beautiful M45 there that you can walk right up to and get plenty of great pictures.
That's quite the weapon, Johnny. That's quite the weapon, Johnny. That's quite the weapon, Johnny. That's quite the weapon, Johnny. Take care, catch ya for another one.
Oh man, CoD: BRO... First FPS I played and it stuck with me. When I joined the Army and was assigned to The 1st Infantry Division it was like a dream come true. I couldn't believe it. 3rd BCT 1st ID
First time I ever saw this weapon was in the movie tremors 3 and for a minute I thought you weren't going to show the clip from that movie I'm glad it showed up
In the spring of 1967, my Army helicopter company was sent from northern II corps to southern I corps (near Quang Nhai [sp?]) to help in the temporary relief of a USMC unit that had been operating there. This was close to the coast and completely flat terrain except for one hill that was surrounded by rice paddies. On top of that hill was a quad-50 that had a 360º field of fire. It was like having 24/7 gunship coverage. It was awesome.
The first time I ever saw a M45 Quadmount was in the opening of Tremors 3 Back to Perfection when Burt used it on the Shreikers. That was one of the coolest movie openings I ever saw as a kid.
My father modified a war surplus M45 to carry cameras and long lenses to film aircraft and rocket testing for the U.S. Navy out at China Lake (1952) and later at Lookout Mountain Air Force Station (1956). The “M45 Camera Mount” became an essential piece of gear for filming the earliest rocket tests at Cape Canaveral and was nominated for an Academy Award.
Oooh, a halftrack, I own Johnny Lightning's halftrack. Have a great Rememberence Day, and if there are any Americans, have a great Veterans Day tomorrow. Take care, and all the best.
My father was a 2LT 3/15 Tank Company in Korea on a heavily contested outpost just before the truce negotiations, Dad noted that they brought these up on halftracks into the night firing positions on the outpost. Chinese POW's that survived their heavy nightly assaults' were interrogated and when asked what they feared the most they remarked the quad 50's were absolute morale breakers. Dad went out with patrols in the following mornings (mostly looking for intelligence on bodies and pristine type 50 or ppsh-41 smgs to add to their collections) Dad noted that the carnage the Q50s inflicted was unbelievable, in his words "ungodly" After nearly two weeks the Chinese division was rendered combat ineffective as they had too many causalities to keep assaulting the hill. Dad also noted that ordinance wanted all the burned out bbl's. back and he was responsible for keeping up with them. They fired so many rounds during their engagements with the Chinese that the bbls would glow orange and start to distort from the prolonged firing.
Pretty sure I saw a picture from Vietnam of one of these on an M113. They had painted "Nose Art" on the sloped front, bearing the legend 'Birth Control".
Hello again Johnny These things were heavily used by Pakistani army against our forces during the 1965 & 1971 Indo Pak wars & were one of the primary threats to both Air & Ground troops alike . The Indian army often have to call in either Tank or Artillery to get rid of these guns from Long range
I remember seeing quad 50’s mounted on M35 trucks doing convoy duty along Hwy 1. They were painted black and had names like a WW2 B17. Quad dammit Johnny, enough with the puns!
My Dad manned one of these in Vietnam for perimeter defense. He told me a story of how they thought the VC were trying to infiltrate their position one night and everyone opened up, including him on the quad .50. When scouts went out in the morning, they found a heard of Water Buffalo turned into hamburger.
Friend of mine, Ollie, operated one of these during the Korean war. All he ever said about it was "mowed them down like grass". He was deaf as a post, probably because of the gun.
They were mounted on pbr's too if i recall. One of my grand fathers in ww2 was a gunner in a m16 half track in pattons 3rd army where patton had them on the front lines mowing down infantry.
The army sent dozens of quad 50s to Europe in 1944 but by then the Germans barely had any planes left. There was hardly a use for anti-aircraft guns. So they used them against dug-in infantry. The GIs called the quad machine guns “meat choppers.”
Some b-25's had 16. 6 in the nose, 4 side pods two per side, twin top turret, twin bottom turret, and 2 in the tail. They chewed up ships in the Pacific.
There was a crazy version of a tank, that had 6 barrels, it was called M-50 Ontos, and it had 6 barrels, 3 on each side, in 106mm recoilless , a forgotten piece of Military Tank with Equipment, and it Rocks.
Those quad .50's, along with twin 40mms, where brutal on Chinese human wave attacks during the Korean war. They made the difference to surviving or being overrun.
"Your hearing loss is NOT service related."
what was that? I can't hear you
"HALF PAST EIGHT!"
I recall just one 50 cal being awfully loud, four must be terrifying. The M60 in comparison sounded almost delightful.
It was all that listening to Perry Como at full blast.
You heard that too, eh?
Gen. Pershing did a study during WW1 on caliber effectiveness vs cost and came up with the .50 cal. performance requirements. This was a multi purpose cartridge and machine gun for use against soft targets, enemy personnel, lightly armored vehicles and small craft and planes. John Browning came up with the .50 BMG which was an enlarged version of the 30-06. It passed the tests and minor improvements in the M2 were made along the way to WW2, where it was widely used. Cost of ammo and guns was also a factor, and it was determined based on field performance that it was more cost efficient than the 20 mm.
After they captured a German Tankgewehr M1918 and studied the ammo , they could make a working .50BMG cartridge .
Really also a fact and also a good recommendation for JJ on a standalone video about that weapon along with any other guns of Browning like the 1917 water cooled gun it looks like a Maxim but has a pistol grip and also this other 1 that is a lighter version of the M2 the M1919 machine gun seen it modified as the Stinger during WW2 and also for the 1917 said a soldier named John Basilone carried it all by himself and fired it.
@@5co756 That's really something to think about and wonder.
@@kellychuang8373 Basilone was operating M1917 .30 cal. Water Cooled Machine guns. Not the M2 Browning.
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Yes, but at the second half of ww2, 20 mm was better on planes. In fact, during Korea, american planes had .50 cal but it lacks efficiency agains't newer russian jet planes. Problem solved when they switched to 20 mm. Improving performances of the planes demanded stronger materials. Thus the need for more punch.
Please note it doesn't nullate or contradict what you said.
After WW2 the 250-round "tombstone" ammo cans were not commonly seen, the guns being fed by the standard 105-rd ammo cans. Easier to move, quicker to set up and available in the supply system. By the way, for trivia, the WW2 M3 chassis that was factory-equipped with the M45 mount was the M16 (M17 if produced by International Harvester for Lend-Lease), in Europe there was an excess of M2 half tracks. Some units with the M51 trailer-mounted systems mounted the M45 mount onto M2 halftracks, creating the "M16B". Later, when the Army found itself short of M16 half tracks, the took surplus M3A1 APC half tracks and mounted M45 mounts in them. The mounts had to be raised as the APC version didn't have fold-down panels on the sides. These were M16A1.
Good additional info sir! 👌
@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq Next, do the Dushka the Soviet's version of the .50cal
I saw the quad mounted on 5 & 2.5 ton trucks in MACV, Viet Nam. !966 - '68.
@dougcraft77 were you with sog?
@@huntar141 US Navy, MCB-3
That "Quad-.50" is always a win.
Totally wrong.
As a Dane, seeing "slå først frede" featured in one of your videos is a delightful surprise.
I don't actually remember that scene.
@@peterknutsen3070 KOLICK use the Gun to the destroy the boat at the of the movie
All the nicknames, all the intimidation, but nothing beats the elegant brutality of the phrase "Quad-Fifty".
The meat chopper.
Saw them in action in Vietnam. Deadly, absolutely deadly.
Those are nice nicknames, but i still prefer "flakvierling".
"I carry 4 .50s because they don't make 5 .51s"
Nice!
I remember once reading that they experimented with the M45 Quadmount in the Vietnam War as a "localized rapid jungle clearance tool" but that wasn't viable due to ammunition consumption over engineer time and that it was proposed as the machinegun mount for the Humvee but apparently concerns were raised over whether the Humvee's frame could handle the recoil of all four machine guns firing at once.
I built the M16 (Quad on a half track) as a kid from a Tamiya kit. Still my favourite model due to its awesome firepower. One shows up in Band of Brothers in the episode where they cross the river to take prisoners.
I first discovered this back when I played MOWAS2, and can confirm this thing rips infantry and armored cars with ease.
Especially using Robz realism mod
It's ridiculously powerful even in Gates of Hell.
Experience comes from reality.
Perfect video for a cold Sunday!
Not for me, for in south hemisphere is a hot sunday after six fucking months of winter.
No need for ear protection on those crew either 😂
WHAT??
Speak up son, I can't hear you.
"A .50 cal adds class to any vehicle." - The Chieftain.
Quadmount? Amateurs. What we really need is an Octomount.
Now you're speaking my language baby!
No we need ALL the guns.
You bloody genius
GUUUUUUUNS!!!
i fuckin' love 'em!
Do you not like hearing??
Thanks for the video. My father was in WW2 with the 866TH AA AW on a trailer mounted Quad .50 at Leyte and Okinawa.
Mark, my father was also in WW2 and was trained to be part of a Quad 50 team. I have a few pictures of training going on out in the field at whatever base they trained at. But when my dad was sent to France in late 1944, he was moved into an infantry unit and never had another thing to do with a Quad 50.
"A .50 cal adds class to any vehicle." - The Chieftain.
absolutely love that you added the scene from Tremors 3 in here, a great movie and scene from my childhood, gotta love Bert
You broke into the wrong rec room!
I'm actually surprised that you included a scene from the Danish spy comedy "slå først Frede". It's literally a movie from 1965 and is a James Bond parody. So, massive thumbs up for that. However, an M-45 is also seen in the Danish monster movie "Reptilicus" from 1961.
The Frede movies are decent comedies, whereas Reptilicus is a crime against humanity.
Well, to be brutally honest, peoples opinion about them, I never really cared about. So, I have quite frankly never understood why people need to share that type of useless info. But to each their own.
Great video Johnny! And just like the 20 mm flakvierling, the quad 50 was a lethal FOURS to be reckoned with! 💥💥💥💥
Design bureau: "How many machine guns do you want on this halftrack?"
Military: "Yes!"
My nextdoor neighbor was positioned on one of these in an anti-aircraft battalion as a member of Patton's Third Army. During the Battle of the Bulge when the 3rd Army was heading North for a counterattack towards towards Bastogne, scouts reported an immobilized but still manned King Tiger that still had an operational turret and a few foxholes guarding a road that made a huge shortcut through the Ardennes. The problem was that none of the M4s in the area had a 76mm gun, so the NCO told my neighbor and his truck crew to to charge at the tank and foxholes so that their shermans could flank the King Tiger and hit it from the rear. When given this order, my neighbor, a devout catholic who never cursed towards anyone, said "Go fuck yourself" to the NCO and refused to do it. The NCO threatened to get my neighbor court marshalled but upon hearing the plan, their commanding CO also told the NCO to go fuck himself and just waited for a 76mm M4 to get to the position and take out the Tiger 2 because it's turret was too slow to react.
He also got woken up by a German strafing run early in the morning during Bodenplatte. He was one of the only people not hungover from partying on New Year's Eve and was able to scare off the inexperienced Luftwaffe pilots who were strafing in straight lines by just firing towards them. After Bodenplatte, he never saw immediate combat because the Luftwaffe was reduced to intercepting strategic bombing raids and scouting.
He passed away last January just a month before turning 98 after battling pancreatic cancer for nearly 4 years and I miss him every day.
This was the nightmare for Chinese and North Korean light infantrymen during the Korean War. Truly the grim reaper on the battlefield.
@@zhicaofang2354 sad part is there's nothing you could do against something like this even behind rocks or walls, whatever I imagine it would shred through most materials
@@fiend_gaming Boulders and dirt mounds would work fine, but the Chinese troops usually attacked in large waves (hence why such firepower was being used against infantry in the first place).
@andyfriederichsen even then it's gonna dig into and destroy all cover over time
I got close to a quad 50 at an mg shoot at Knob Creek. When the Briggs and Stratton gas engine starts up, it's reminiscent of a carnival ride. But when the guns lit up, I wanted to get the hell away.
Was this the last year of the show? If so damn I missed it
My father downed a German plane at the bridge at Remagen while using a Quad 50. The pilot parachuted to safety and was introduced to my dad. Imagine when the pilot met a 19 year old, German speaking SAILOR! Dad was a SeaBee attached to the Army Core of Engineers, and had just delivered the Quad 50. His photo is in the museum at the Remagen bridge site. Happy Veterans Day Dad. He enlisted on his 17th Birthday, lived until age 84, and would be 98 if still with us…
I've been looking forward to this. Thank You 🙏🏻
Korea, 1951. My and one of his buddies were asleep in a shallow foxhole after a long day's march. At about 0300, one of these things backed into position about 10 yards behind them and started plastering the nearby hillside. My dad and his buddy thought the world was coming to an end, but all they could do was cover their ears and wait it out. Eventually, the gunner stopped firing so the crew could change barrels. It was then that they decided to pull that famous maneuver known as "getting the hell outta there."
The moment I clicked on this, I knew there'd be a scene from Waterworld. GLaD to see some Burt Gummer action in there too. He described his "half-quad" has a "dual fifty anti-aircraft turret mount."
French at Dien Bien Phu had two of them on halftracks
Fought and fired till the very end from strongpoints Juno and Sparrowhawk
Last crew manned fire source available on last day
All other artillery and mortars knocked out
Hey Johnny what’s better than 3 Machine Guns?
Exactly
A 20mm Gatling gun with a 1,000 round hopper fed chute..
I was excited to see Tremors 3. 2:40
Thanks, was just about to ask what movie is that.
🍻 ell yea
My favorite channel on youtube! please never stop posting videos, they are such high quality and super informative while being entertaining .
Thanks for the kind words 🙏
I saw, heard, and most definitely felt Mike Dillon's quad .50 (Dillon Presicion,
Dillon Aero) in the Arizona desert during a SOF convention back in the 90s. An awesome spectacle! RIP Mike.
My late uncle served on one all across Europe. WWII. RIP SUES.
My Dad served in the Korean War on a halftrack with a quad 50. He said they never shot down a airplane but a lot of opposition troops with it. He described the devastation created was absolutely horrific. RIP Pop.
NASA also has used the Quadmount for a Camera Platform, used for taking footage of rockets such as the Saturn V and space shuttles
My dad was in a AA unit in WW2 and they had quad 50s to protect the main AA guns. I have a picture of him standing in front of one.
Replace the brownings with Quad Mounted Mini Guns and pretty much every single battle will be one-sided, not even kamikaze won't be able to make it their targets
Someone actually did it look it up on RUclips cant copy url
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"It costs 1.2 million dollars to fire this weapon..."
ruclips.net/video/g3FGiNRyGqg/видео.html found it
'Ma-Duce' is iconic, but 'Kraut Mower' is muh' fav'... I have a model of one made from metal on a Half-track, in which the wheel's and tracks move and the 4x .50 quadmount traverse's.
Dillon Aero brought their quad mount to the Big Sandy shoot, they replaced the 4 M2's with 4 M134 miniguns, definitely worth looking up, especially the night shoot with only tracer rounds
0:30 It's a Machine Gun!
My Dad fought in Patton's Third Army, 4th Armored Division, 66th Armored Field Artillery Battalion as a scout. He was a kid who drove around in a jeep, finding places for M7 Priest set up and start slinging 105mm artillery. In addition to all of this, there would be other jeeps, ma duces transporting whatever was needed, a few M3 GMC half tracks with there 75mm gun and then were the meat choppers. My Dad and the people who served with him - he was a mighty corporal after all - did it all when troop strength dwindled. What, you're a cook, grab a rifle and get out on the line. Hey, Corporal Wright, you are a scout for those M7 Priests? Yes sir. Good, now grab some men off of those M7's, hook up with that cook and some of his people and start searching door to door, if they sound weird, kick 'em in, toss some grenades, then hose 'em down with machine gun fire. If it's to fortified, by pass it and will bring the meat chopper in, fix 'em right up. My Dad understood what fix 'em right up meant and hoped like hell he would have to dig those bodies out of the rubble. The meat chopper did a great job, depending upon what side of it you were on.
My Dad had many jobs and was eventually promoted up to a Sargent. His discharge papers say that the battles he fought in were Northern France, Ardennes, Rhineland and Central Europe. Parts of Patton's 4th Armored Division were broken up into Combat Commands. CCA was Combat Command A, and CCB and CCR which stood for Combat Command Reserve. I don't know what Combat Command was tasked with checking out this small camp called Ohrdruf but my Dad was apart of it and a few day later they moved on to Buchenwald. War is crazy, watch your friend standing there one minute and next, all you find is an arm and his helmet. That's war and that sucks! Having a 19 your old kid like my Dad have to wander around the ruins of Ohrdruf and the see the horrors of Buchenwald, that bends a man's mind. Many year after, I asked him about this and he thought for a moment, like he was digging something out of the back of his brain that he had deeply buried. "The cold... the God awful SMELL... Bodies stacked to the ceiling... and THE OVENS WERE STILL WARM. He trailed off after that and changed the conversation around. My Mom told me the next day that Dad had a rough night of sleep that night. I'll end this with the fact that Patton's 3rd Army was eventually ordered into Czechoslovakia and were forced to stop at the town in Pilsen, which to this very day, celebrates the arrival of Patton's Third Army. The 3rd Army stayed only two week's as the Russians where not happy having Americans in THEIR territory. As for my Dad, he stay on as a part of Patton's 3rd Army and as a part of the occupation force until he shipped home in March of 1946.
Was visiting the museum in Bastogne a couple weeks ago, they've got a beautiful M45 there that you can walk right up to and get plenty of great pictures.
That's quite the weapon, Johnny. That's quite the weapon, Johnny. That's quite the weapon, Johnny. That's quite the weapon, Johnny. Take care, catch ya for another one.
I'm seeing double here. 8 thank yous!
I first know it in CoD 2 Big Red One in the mission Piano Lupo, and then War Thunder, i was loving it ngl
Oh man, CoD: BRO...
First FPS I played and it stuck with me. When I joined the Army and was assigned to The 1st Infantry Division it was like a dream come true. I couldn't believe it.
3rd BCT 1st ID
@@RedTail1-1holy shit man that must be amazing
@@RedTail1-1 that's awesome
First time I ever saw this weapon was in the movie tremors 3 and for a minute I thought you weren't going to show the clip from that movie I'm glad it showed up
Johnnys bringing out the big guns now!!!
“Use a gun… if that doesn’t work? Use more guns.”
In the spring of 1967, my Army helicopter company was sent from northern II corps to southern I corps (near Quang Nhai [sp?]) to help in the temporary relief of a USMC unit that had been operating there. This was close to the coast and completely flat terrain except for one hill that was surrounded by rice paddies. On top of that hill was a quad-50 that had a 360º field of fire. It was like having 24/7 gunship coverage. It was awesome.
The first time I ever saw a M45 Quadmount was in the opening of Tremors 3 Back to Perfection when Burt used it on the Shreikers. That was one of the coolest movie openings I ever saw as a kid.
Great stuff, love the footage!!
My father modified a war surplus M45 to carry cameras and long lenses to film aircraft and rocket testing for the U.S. Navy out at China Lake (1952) and later at Lookout Mountain Air Force Station (1956). The “M45 Camera Mount” became an essential piece of gear for filming the earliest rocket tests at Cape Canaveral and was nominated for an Academy Award.
the one mounted on halftrack is really cool on company of heroes
4:58 Some kind of blank-adapter/sub-caliber version????
Oooh, a halftrack, I own Johnny Lightning's halftrack.
Have a great Rememberence Day, and if there are any Americans, have a great Veterans Day tomorrow.
Take care, and all the best.
My father was a 2LT 3/15 Tank Company in Korea on a heavily contested outpost just before the truce negotiations, Dad noted that they brought these up on halftracks into the night firing positions on the outpost. Chinese POW's that survived their heavy nightly assaults' were interrogated and when asked what they feared the most they remarked the quad 50's were absolute morale breakers. Dad went out with patrols in the following mornings (mostly looking for intelligence on bodies and pristine type 50 or ppsh-41 smgs to add to their collections) Dad noted that the carnage the Q50s inflicted was unbelievable, in his words "ungodly" After nearly two weeks the Chinese division was rendered combat ineffective as they had too many causalities to keep assaulting the hill. Dad also noted that ordinance wanted all the burned out bbl's. back and he was responsible for keeping up with them. They fired so many rounds during their engagements with the Chinese that the bbls would glow orange and start to distort from the prolonged firing.
Great stuff!! Gotta bring out the quads sometimes!
This was the best Weapon upgrade in Company Of Heroes, and it is the perfect casualty maker in the game.
The Vietnam gun trucks would be an interesting topic, Johnny.
Pretty sure I saw a picture from Vietnam of one of these on an M113. They had painted "Nose Art" on the sloped front, bearing the legend 'Birth Control".
*_"OK Let's give em the key to the city now!!!" ..._** Dennis Hopper WATERWORLD 1995*
Don’t forget the meatgrinder in the tail of the B-52C through G models!
Hello again Johnny
These things were heavily used by Pakistani army against our forces during the 1965 & 1971 Indo Pak wars & were one of the primary threats to both Air & Ground troops alike . The Indian army often have to call in either Tank or Artillery to get rid of these guns from Long range
I always love things like these
Close enough, welcome back ostwind
I remember seeing quad 50’s mounted on M35 trucks doing convoy duty along Hwy 1. They were painted black and had names like a WW2 B17.
Quad dammit Johnny, enough with the puns!
Nice
having probably played too much ww2 games I cant help but see this weapons as a poor mans Flakvierling.
I love those Quad in Company of Heroes and Heroes and Generals, literally a meat grinder
I heard the system called the sweeper as it would sweep all life from an area it was firing on.
My Dad manned one of these in Vietnam for perimeter defense. He told me a story of how they thought the VC were trying to infiltrate their position one night and everyone opened up, including him on the quad .50. When scouts went out in the morning, they found a heard of Water Buffalo turned into hamburger.
They make a helluva racket.
In 1975 still in service with the Dutch Air force as an M55, I had lessons on it myself and I still have a manual in my possession somewhere.
Friend of mine, Ollie, operated one of these during the Korean war. All he ever said about it was "mowed them down like grass". He was deaf as a post, probably because of the gun.
Also used in Korea to break up Chinese human wave attacks (where available, usually on the M16 halftrack)
Much appreciated in Vietnam. Was unaware it was so effective against dinosaurs.
these are still in use in turkish army. i saw one mounted on an m113 and it was towing 3 rapiers behind itself.
They were mounted on pbr's too if i recall. One of my grand fathers in ww2 was a gunner in a m16 half track in pattons 3rd army where patton had them on the front lines mowing down infantry.
My father was a crew member of M16 multi gun motor carriage 1952-1953. Deaf as a post but not service related.
The army sent dozens of quad 50s to Europe in 1944 but by then the Germans barely had any planes left. There was hardly a use for anti-aircraft guns. So they used them against dug-in infantry. The GIs called the quad machine guns “meat choppers.”
“Kraut Mower”
Damn.
not one! not two! but four damn machine guns thats like four Rambo is shooting at you all at the same time
i love your vidios man i lurn somthing every time keep it up
Some b-25's had 16. 6 in the nose, 4 side pods two per side, twin top turret, twin bottom turret, and 2 in the tail. They chewed up ships in the Pacific.
This weapon was awesome in BF1942
“Needs more dakka” - US Army
Tri-fighters fears the M45 Quad mount.
My great grandfather was the gunner on an M16 MGMC for the 3rd Army. He couldn't hear shit XD
Waterworld looks like a good movie
You should do a video on the Lee Enfield rifle!!! incredible piece of equipment (I'm never giving up until there is a video)
There was a crazy version of a tank, that had 6 barrels, it was called M-50 Ontos, and it had 6 barrels, 3 on each side, in 106mm recoilless , a forgotten piece of Military Tank with Equipment, and it Rocks.
That was great, thanks!
I’m wish I had four of these in my garage 😅
Good Work! Good Work!
Good Work! Good Work!
Thank you JJ....Shoe🇺🇸
an epic weapon for sure!
missed a golden opportunity to show the privately owned m45 that was modified to carry 4 miniguns
I love the war thunder m16 vehicles
Those quad .50's, along with twin 40mms, where brutal on Chinese human wave attacks during the Korean war. They made the difference to surviving or being overrun.
"Quad .50 hungry for Jerry!"
Please do a Flakpanzer IV Wirbelwind next, thanks
5:08 FOR SUPER EAAAAAAARTH!