Captured Ammo and equipment

On the Kubel being painted, are those normal German tires or Allied tires?

I doubt they would go to that much trouble -Paint and first works is as far as I would go. Anything else it would end up in a ditch.

 

If i remember rightly Sapper has told us that though an excellent design the MP40 was not a wise choice as a captured weapon, it's sound could attract intense fire from your own side. I assume the same stands for many captured smallarms.

True enough, although I've read many accounts of British troops getting their hands on one and keeping it for the rest of the campaign, both in Italy and Europe.

The one good point about using captured weapons is how they're supplied by the enemies war production.

 

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Kind of captured--German using Italian, Aug '44.

 

A captured French platform I believe?


Even Rommel was interested in it.

Im prety sure that that a S307(f) Vielfachwerfer for the 21st Panzer in Normandy one of Rommels Funnyes.

 

remember a story a vet told me how they had found some german rifles, (this is in normandy) he talked of shooting at rats in the dump and they attracted alot of attention, from artillery, regular forces...

He was a pilot with 439 squadron

 

As the calibers of most enemy weapons were different from allied ones then couldn't
the need to retrain personnel in the use of those weapons etc it was easier to
destroy any captured weapons
David

 

Headlines: France, parade of the Milice Francaise Specially information: France. - Parade of members of the Milice Francaise with geschultertem machine gun; PK KBZ WHETHER west
Look carefully and you will see that the miliciens in the second row are carrying Lee-Enfields. Many in the Milice carried weapons originally intended for the Resistance but intercepted, Sten guns, Enfields, Smith and Wesson K.38/200 pistols, etc.

 

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I vaguely remembered owning a Jerry rifle and some ammo for a brief while so I did a bit of searching in my personal diary and found these two entries:

Monday 16th. April 1945
Early morning move. Watched eytie squad burying some tedeschi dead. Found Jerry rifle & ammo in the wood. Cpl.Boreman fixing the charging engine.


Sunday 22nd. April 1945
Woke to find mortar crew right at my head in yard right in front of casa. Rations came up with T.R's kit (?). More prisoners. Slung my 'spare' rifle. Moved into fields.




I see that there was only a six day gap between finding the rifle and ditching it and I can't even remember firing it

 

My Dad's regiment were based in Wilhelmshaven from June 1945 and 2 men were killed as a result of disposing of enemy ammunition. The entry from 26 July 1945 states and I quote.

"One Sjt and one O/R killed when on duty as guard to dumping of ammunition from barges into the sea. Barge on which they were on duty was blown up."

Both commemorated on the Brookwood Memorial.

 

I can recall my Arnhem veteran Grandad saying that he thought a lot of the German weapons and thought that overall they were better than the British equivalents. I'm not sure what experience he based this on and sadly he's no longer around for me to ask.

 

Not sure who they belong to so no credit given.