Well said. I had a lot of time on the Ma Duece in the Corps and LOVED shooting that gun. Loved watching it chop it's way through just about everything in it's path. Fun to shoot.
The best was halftracks in WWII and Korea then Viet Nam... mounted with 4 .50's firing at the same time... in WWII they would tear up a town or infantry..
The Germans did not like the .50
One note: In a book by a 101 Airborne trooper he had a Walther P38 he took of a German, in Germany he would point it at Germans and tell them to do something and they would laugh at him.
He started using his .45 and the typical response was "Das ist Gross" (That is Big) they would look down the barrel and do what he said.
Now there is a pistol company with a .50 cal auto looks like a .45 they made a new round and it is in June American Handgunner.