I was able to verify that the order for no decals really was made,
though.
Perhaps the M42s you have just didn't have them struck? It was a late
order,
relatively speaking.
>>> You are absolutely correct about the order. It was believed the decals
made good targets. Only M42 helmets produced after the order left the
factory without them. Thousands of M42s where produced prior to the order
and included the single branch of service decal. To complicate things,
soldiers where allowed to obtain and apply their own decals or in rare
cases paint on facmilies.
>>most were also issued the M1 Thompson submachine gun instead of the
proper
>>MP-40. (Max says
>In general, all guards who were prominent on camera have real MP40s
I'll have to ask Max where he observed this, then. He seemed quite sure
about it. It would seem a bad gaffe to have on closeups, but I imagine
it
may have been common for the extras, unless you've seen otherwise.
>>> My observations, (weapons are my specialty) is that the same ratty
Thompson replica turns up in many episodes, in the hands of all kinds of
people. I have never seen more than one Thompson in any one scene. The
germans are almost always correctly outfitted with MP40s, P-38 and Luger
pistols. One gaff I have observed is that the tower guards are armed
sometimes with a Browning M1919A4, (a US gun) or what appears to be a WW1
Maxim with the water jacket stripped off. This may not be too far of a
stretch, since real prison camps where outfitted with all kinds of
captured or antiquated weapons, (mostly Polish, Czech, French) but the US
gun is unlikely.
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