>>64277869
Even if I use the BARs as heavy machine guns completely failing at my task, I have used them as heavy machine guns, regardless of the outcome. Even if I use a soft piece of bread as a hammer, completely failing at my task, I have still hammered away at a nail, regardless of the outcome. If I have a platoon of T-55s being used as MBTs, they are still MBTs regardless of them being all blown up going up against modern AT and M1A2s.

It is the doctrinal act of using the weapons as HMGs that renders them into HMGs. Just as if I use a rock to hammer in a nail, that rock *is* a hammer. It might be a poor hammer. I might fail at hammering the nail in straight and have to start over, but by God it is still a hammer.
The tool's meaning to us is defined by its use; a tool is what a tool does.

>>64012286
ww1 was decided by UK and France vs Germany on the western front. By the time US finally got around the decisive grind was mostly over. Japan was left to do their own thing in the Pacific and mostly a sideshow

US contribution is in WW2 as the untouchable megafactory spamming everybody to death. protected by the largest oceans of the world fully invulnerable to bombing and invasions. no need to hog all the glory in delusions of grandeur