Give me a day or two to find the link and I can give you a website that has some images of a few US prototype weapons from during and just after WW2 including the US MG42 that you mentioned and I think also some of the early M14 designs from the Garand.
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Originally Posted by Cpl. Kalkwarf
Just think of the possibilities for the allies.
Say the US industrial war machine stamping out MG42s and Stg44s (possibly with some minor improvements.
One thing I was thinking of is the M1 Garand re-chambered the new US M3 .32 cal rifle cartridge (the 8mm Mauser). Even a magazine fed version.
M1g: standard M1 Garand re-chambered in 8mm
M1m: Magazine fed Garand in 8mm
M44: American made Stg44 (possible slight modifications for production purposes)
Just some of the Ideas.
The US army was actually thinking of adopting the MG42, they tried to re-chamber it in 3006 but did not have too much success.
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