Tuesday, October 21, 2025

SS MG42 Machine Gunner - Normandy, 1944.

 

SS-Oberschütze Klaus Schuh (MG Gunner) and SS-Unterscharführer Peter Koslowski in an alley in Rots, Normandy. June 9th, 1944.

Schuh received the Iron Cross for destroying a Canadian Churchill tank using only his MG-42 machine gun! With no other weapon at his disposal, he aimed tracer rounds at the fuel tank of the Churchill tank and took it out. Schuh was KIA on June 26th, 1944.
Then and Now: Rots, Normandy region, France.

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