MG 42 [SEP] service entry
MG 34. A limited run of about 1,500 of its immediate predecessor, the MG 39/41, was completed in 1941 and tested in combat trials.
History Adoption of the MG 42.
The weapon was officially accepted, and the main manufacturing of the production design began in 1942, as the MG 42, contracts going to , Mauser-Werke, Gustloff-Werke and others. Production during the war amounted to over 400,000 units (17,915 units in 1942, 116,725 in 1943, 211,806 in 1944, and 61,877 in 1945
Döbeln.
On May 1, 1933 he joined the NSDAP. In his role as constructor at "Großfuß" during the 1930s Werner Gruner is credited with the invention of the well-known machine gun MG 42, the development of which was ordered by the Waffenamt after shortcomings of the MG 34 had been recognized. Named like its predecessor after the year of entry into active service, the MG 42 first supplemented and later replaced the MG 34 in the last years of World War II.
In 1943 Gruner was appointed