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Germans Capture Tommy Guns
This is what the Germans did in WW2 when they Capture Tommy Guns from the French.
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Pose for a determined looking piccy. In reality, they wouldn´t have had .45 ammunition in their supply chain.
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Talk about rubbing salt into the wound.
Fallschirmjäger Division, at Anzio in Italy, January 1944
The trooper shows off a captured British ‘Bren’ Light Machine Gun and is leaning on a wooden case marked: “Luftdichter Patronenkasten” (Air tight sealed ammunition boxes, for 1500 x 7.92 Mauser or 9mm cartridges).
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'Tonight my men and I have been through hell and back again, but the look on your faces when we let you out of the hall - we'd do it all again tomorrow.' Major Chris Keeble's words to Goose Green villagers on 29th May 1982 - 2 PARA
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Here's a pic of a captured Bren ..
'Tonight my men and I have been through hell and back again, but the look on your faces when we let you out of the hall - we'd do it all again tomorrow.' Major Chris Keeble's words to Goose Green villagers on 29th May 1982 - 2 PARA
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The first photo is a Colt Model 1921 that was captured from the French - as all Savage and Auto Ord Model 1928A1 Thompsons had the Cutts muzzle compensator (the Model 1921 could be either way)
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If you watch the footage of the end of the war, you'll see entire units of the old soldiers Volksturm....marching off to defend Berlin using almost exclusively captured weapons...rifles, light MGs and heavies... They sent everything back to be used. They'd have sent the ammo too. No, they didn't make it, they had all they could handle being sent through our supply.
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The volksturm certainly had plenty of Sten guns. So said, most of the kit and plenty of the agents supplied to the French went straight into the hands of the eagerly awaiting reception committee - who were German!
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Many years ago I saw a MP 3008 in 9mm with a MP 40 magazine in the bottom. Even back then, I knew this was a rare example
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Otto Skorzeny went right to the source and ordered weapons using captured codes. He'd have them air dropped right to his guys for test and evaluation...like the Mk6s...
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