"alanint" <Alanint@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
>>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.
Got it. Were there any older helmets that *did* have them struck
retroactively, though?
>>>>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
>>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.
Duly noted. Thanks.
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