ENEMY WEAPONS PART 5

Detailed War Office appreciation of German infantry weaponry issued in July 1943. Remarkable descriptions and diagrams of enemy small arms. This pamphlet is Part 5 of a series, and deals with German Infantry, Engineer and Airborne weapons. It was issued by the British War Office in July, 1943. There are details of German grenades and grenade dischargers, which includes the 27 mm Kampfpistole, the rifle grenade discharger (Schiessbecher) and the sighting equipment, and the spigot type rifle discharger. The section on machine carbines looks at the Bergmann MP18, the 9 mm MP28 (the so-called Schmeisser), the MP34 (Bergmann) and the Steyr-Solothurn MP34(o). Under rifles there is treatment of the important Gew 41 7.92 mm self-loading rifle. Among machine guns it treats in detail the relatively new (in 1943) MG42, and there are notes on the MG34 S and the MG34/41. Mortars: the 8 cm German mortar 34, the 10cm Nebelwerfer 35 and the 20cm leichte Landungswerfer are shown, and there is a table of compatibility between British, German and Italian mortar ammunition. Airborne guns: this section shows the revolutionary 7.5 cm LG40 in great detail. All reports are accompanied by drawings and there are photographs of the MG42 and the LG40. This pamphlet is of great importance to students of infantry weapons, particularly of airborne troops with its detailed examination of the LG40. Reprint of the July 1943 original edition.