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Kelly's Heroes PU Sniper
I was watching Kelly's Heroes last night and noticed that the US sniper in the bell tower is using a Mosin Nagant PU rifle. I thought that was interesting and while I realize it is a movie and not a historically accurate one at that, it got me wondering if US troops ever did use PU snipers or if this was just something Hollywood just had in the closet.
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I can say with 99.9999999 certainty that no they did not. I think it's what the prop house had on hand.
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That movie was filmed in Yugoslavia - I guess at the time there were more PUs than M1903A4s available in that part of the world....
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Aragorn: The Germans certainly did use Mosin-Nagant sniper rifles that they captured- and apparently liked them! In keeping with the fanciful tone of this movie it's not a stretch to think a GI might have taken one from a neutralized German who had brought it with him from Russia. Great movie but when I tried to have a quick look at that scene I realized my copy is a VHS tape and we no longer have a VHS player- Aargh! Back to tuning my No.4 T for the "Ross Rifle Shoot"- my kind of technology.
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It seems to be a subject there isn't a lot of information on. You have to know that when certain things were captured, they weren't simply discarded. There is quite a bit of documentation on Germans and the Soviets using captured equipment but not so much the US. I understand the US mass produced things in huge numbers and standardization makes things a lot easier but if you capture a German truck, are you going to push it to the side or repaint it and use it. A lot of German trucks were Fords but they never seem to make it into the movies.
Odd Ball is carrying a Luger but it looked like it may have been in a 45 holster, not sure on that.
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Odd Ball Buys the Tiger from the crew at the end too....woof woof.!!
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I watched the Green Berets (John Wayne) last night and could have sworn I saw an Enfield No 5 Mk1 in the hands of a VC.
On another note I am reading The Wild Blue (Steven Ambrose Book) and noticed the mention of German captured B-24s joining our (USAAF) formations to act as spotters for German anti aircraft batteries.
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Hooked on History, don't know if you know about the site LONE SENTRY but in the section called technical & tactical trends there are a few after action reports of the Germans & Japanese doing this. To anybody interested in the nuts & bolts of ww2 combat I highly recommend this site.
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WarPig1976
Hooked on History, don't know if you know about the site LONE SENTRY but in the section called technical & tactical trends there are a few after action reports of the Germans &
Japanese doing this. To anybody interested in the nuts & bolts of ww2 combat I highly recommend this site.
Thanks!
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