The Truth About Captured Weapon Use in WWII

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  @turtle2720 · 1 year ago

  "Look Hans! It'z an amerikan M1 Garand rifle... let me reload it. OUCH! Scheiße! Mein thumb is hurting."

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• BI

  @Bingusgingus · 1 year ago

  Bro wanted an excuse to flex his pristine luger

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• TH

  @thecommissaruk · 1 year ago

  My great grandfather used a Beretta sub machine gun for months in Italy before it was taken from him by an officer because "he shouldn't have it".  When he next saw that officer, he was using it himself.

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  @kiralana324 · 1 year ago

  &quot;...nope that&apos;s an AK, and it belongs to our f-ing platoon commander, ...&quot;<br>I will never forget the rhythm of an an AK, &nbsp;or the pause of &nbsp;an SVD rifle!

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• GA

  @gameragodzilla · 1 year ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkL74Ep26Lw&amp;t=200">3:20</a> Ironically, the fact that you can grab ammo off fallen enemies is precisely why picking up enemy weapons in video games is beneficial, because in video games you fight and kill way more enemies than would realistically be possible for a single soldier and also don’t get regularly resupplied for your side’s guns unless you pick them up from dead allies or find generic ammo boxes.<br><br>Just one of the many ways gaming logic differs from reality.

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  @fazole · 1 year ago

  I read the memoirs of a US soldier who fought in the ETO 44-45. One of his platoon members found and MP-40 and was firing it when they were in a town, &nbsp;which set the whole platoon on edge because they could not see him in the poor light conditions. He had to be ordered to get rid of the weapon because his fellow soldiers could easily just toss a grenade or fire into the direction of the sound. Everyone is tired and jumpy and it waz very easy to get hit with friendly fire in a town.

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• JU

  @Justin9700 · 1 year ago

  I remember playing the original Call of Duty, when each side could only start a match with their country’s weapons. I was on the German side and saw the barrel of a BAR sticking out from behind a crate. I popped the corner and lit the guy up and it happened to be one of my teammates who had picked the BAR up from a dead enemy.

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  @dragineeztoo61 · 1 year ago

  I took my Uncle Henry to see &quot;Saving Private Ryan&quot;. Henry was a WWII combat vet in Patton&apos;s 3rd Army and fought from North Africa to Sicily to the Battle of the Bulge to deep into Germany. During the landing scene where the front of lander goes down and you hear the German machine guns, he leans over and says &quot;That&apos;s exactly what they sound like.&quot; It gave me chills. This was a guy that had been on the wrong end of an MG-42 many times before.

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  @thetruthseeker5549 · 1 year ago

  Here&apos;s a fun if unexpected example of battlefield pick up; in the last few months of the war in Europe, a tank commander in the 10th Armored lost his &quot;M1&quot;. &nbsp;Hes passed away now and I never thought to ask if it was rifle, carbine, or submachine gun. &nbsp;Anyway, in what He described as a German company or battalion level arms room in a small &nbsp;town, He grabbed a K98 and a few boxes of ammo. &nbsp;It stayed on the tank through the end of operations, and He brought it home. &nbsp;The crew really liked it, and (not scientifically) &nbsp;observed that it penetrated wood beams deeper than Garands with M2 ball. &nbsp;That lowly K98 is still in our family today and a prized heirloom.

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• GA

  @Gatsby1923 · 1 year ago

  You missed one downside my dad, a ww2 veteran in the 10th armored division talked about. You really really don&apos;t want to be captured with enemy weapons. That luger is cool and all but if you&apos;re captured by the Germans they knew how you got it. Not to say they didn&apos;t collect souvenirs but, at least he, tried to send them home.

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  @dariustiapula · 1 year ago

  RL Soldiers: Train in specific skillsets and weapons.<br><br>Video Games Protagonist: Learn everything from firearms to operating vehicles ranging from tanks to fighters for some reason.

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  @filmandfirearms · 1 year ago

  Funny thing about the PPSH being used by German soldiers. There were so many positive reports coming back about the PPSH that the Germans actually went to the trouble of rechambering a ton of captured PPSHs in 9mm to issue to their men. At the same time, Russian soldiers adored the MP40. They couldn&apos;t get enough of it, which likely influenced later submachine gun designs like the PPS 43. A classic case of the grass always being greener on the other side

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