A 2013 inquest into the death of Michael «Mike» Maguire heard he was hit in the temple by a single bullet after
live machine gun fire was wrongly directed inland towards the safe haven he was in.
Not exact matches
The harrowing sequences of men being mown down by
machine gun fire, one after another without a chance, the screams of the young troops as they go crazy from the constant shelling, the mud, barren landscapes, bodies, barbwire and of course the famous bleak depressing ending for the main lead nailing home how cheap
life was.
Even more curious is the fact that key members are basically indestructible, taking any amount of enemy
fire in their stride, while enemies similarly spring back to
life, never showing any ill effect from being raked with
machine gun fire.
The fighting is chaotic and merciless, where the
life of a young man who has trained for months and travelled thousands of miles to fight can be extinguished in a split - second by the opening salvo of
machine -
gun fire.
George did design an aircraft
machine gun firing mechanism that saved many
lives during WWI.