What was the practice on hip-firing the light machine gun MG-34 in World War 2? In this video I take a look at Army Regulations and other manuals, like the Heeresdienstvorschrift and Reibert. Bonus: Star Wars Reference. Military History Visualized provides a series of short narrative and visual presentations like documentaries based on academic literature or sometimes primary sources. Videos are intended as introduction to military history, but also contain a lot of details for history buffs. Since the aim is to keep the episodes short and comprehensive some details are often cut. » HOW YOU CAN SUPPORT MILITARY HISTORY VISUALIZED « (A) You can support my channel on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/join/mhv (B) You can support me via Paypal donations: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=TFHEY4P4YU3NY (C) You can also buy "Spoils of War" (merchandise) in the online shop: https://www.redbubble.com/people/mhvis/shop » SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS « facebook: https://www.facebook.com/milhistoryvisualized/ twitter: https://twitter.com/MilHiVisualized RallyPoint: https://www.rallypoint.com/organizations/military-history-visualized tumblr: http://militaryhistoryvisualized.tumblr.com/ » SOURCES « H.Dv. 130 / 2a (Entwurf): Ausbildungsvorschrift für die Infanterie – Heft 2a – Die Schützenkompanie, 16. März 1941 Reibert: Der Dienstunterricht im Heere – Ausgabe für den Schützen der Schützenkompanie, Jahrgang 1940 Here you can see several images, one with the MG34 in hip-firing position: http://www.bergflak.com/Mgrem.html The M1 Garand Ping will, like, so totally get you killed, innit... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbGoU-yx8YA Stug org https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFXZcC1xZnI » TOOL CHAIN « PowerPoint 2016, Word, Excel, Tile Mill, QGIS, Processing 3, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Premiere, Adobe Audition, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Animate.