YUGOSLAVIA M53/MG42 ARMORER'S MANUAL, YUGO MILITARY ISSUE IN ENGLISH

We now have the 1963 dated Yugoslavian Army manual for M53/MG42 repair in English. This is a VERY detailed manual (186 pages) and includes exploded views of all the parts for the disassembly/assembly/repair of the gun, for the lafette (including the searching fire device), and for the belt loader. This is an exceptionally good manual with detailed information not found in any of the other manuals for the M53/MG42, or anywhere else for that matter.

The bad part is that it was written in Serbo-Croatian (Yugoslav), so it took a lot of time to translate it. After 10 weeks, I have it in English. No, you can't just type it into Google translator and have it make sense. I tried it, and most of the results are not even close to usable. I had to buy dictionaries and learn Serbo-Croation for this one, then sit with the gun, the lafette, and the belt loader in pieces to make sure I got it right, then translate and clean up all the illustrations, and since it is twice the size of most manuals (186 pages), this translation was a lot of work.

This has 186 full size (8.5 x 11") pages, bound with a plastic comb so that it lays flat when you read it. See images for the table of contents and sample pages.