Continued Education

[John Sukey (Deceased)]

The italians used .303 in their aircraft guns, The machine guns in a jap zero were licence built vickers. The japs used a Lewis gun, As did our Navy. and of course the British army and Navy.

[MJ1]

I once viewed a clip of some Rumanian soldiers in Russia standing on a Matilda tank pulling 8mm rounds out of belted tank ammo can and packing their pockets.

[smle-man]

I've seen WW2 photos of German soldiers armed with U.S. M1 carbines but never an M1 rifle or BAR. Apparently they didn't hear that the carbine didn't kill German soldiers.

[ireload2]

I've seen WW2 photos of German soldiers armed with U.S. M1 carbines but never an M1 rifle or BAR. Apparently they didn't hear that the carbine didn't kill German soldiers.

I guess the Germans must have been arm weary and had not heard the M-1 carbines did not function well in cold weather.
A friend of mine saw a lot of carbines that did not work in the Korean War during winter weather but only saw one M-1 rifle quit.