Machine gunners

During the offensive, the machine gunners were on the tip of the attacks, during the defense - covered the infantry with fire. The attacking enemy primarily sought to knock out machine gun calculations. Enemy snipers were constantly hunting for their firing points. The first of artillery, tanks, self -propelled plants, bomber and assault aircraft were the first to fall on them. Machine gunners at the front suffered so big losses that they were often called suicide bombers.
On the service in the front edge, about the trials that fell by him during the war years, the war "war" war in the new book. I remember. The project of Artem Dragkin "The front -line soldiers themselves: soldiers, sergeants and officers of machine gun troops