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  1. 08-20-2011 02:36 PM #11
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    An old piece of Germanicon Army wisdom has it that the Gew. 88 killed more German soldiers than the Frenchicon during the Franco Prussian War. One reason was the poor quality of the first German smokeless powder. Whereas the French could make their nitro powder from Algerian cotton, the Germans had to use wood, rotted in ditches filled with acid. It was also maintained that the Loewe factory that made the first Gew. 88 delivered unreliable quality.
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