S&W wartime revolver?

[Brian Dick]

I had a chinwag with a British WW2 veteran many years ago at an AGCA show in Birmingham, Alabama. He stopped because I had a couple of Enfield revolvers in my glass case for sale at the time. The discussion turned to the relative unpopularity of the cartridge in the USA. He told me that he witnessed many Germans and Italians being shot by soldiers with Enfield No.2 and S&W .38-200 revolvers from North Africa through Italy and Western Europe and he never saw one get up afterwards. You really have to reload and cast the heavier bullets since the prevalent American loading is still the 145-grain RN bullet load.

Jim, I recently caught that film clip you mentioned with RM Goering surrendering his revolver to US forces. It looked like a big Colt New Service in .45 to me. He didn't look happy handing it over either!