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Old 16-08-2006, 11:54 PM   #3 (permalink)
lancesergeant
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Originally Posted by raf
i maybe wrong so correct me if i am.

i get the impression that most british soldiers at the start of the war carried rifles.

but the germans machine guns.

surely a machine gun out weighs a rifle.

any thoughts
Kars, Mausers and MP40's. You might be confusing the MP40 mistakenly called the Schmeisser -a sub-machine gun for the MG 40/42.
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