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| A German paratrooper at Monte Cassino in 1944. This is after the US air force bombed the monastery. He has a first model FG-42 automatic rifle. Because of a requirement by the German air force that it be able to fire from a closed bolt on semi-automatic and an open bolt on automatic, it has a much more complex action that one might think. |
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| A Finnish soldier during the Winter War of 1939-1940 armed with an LS/26 light machine gun. It was an indigenous designed from the early days of light machine guns, as you can see from its rather bulky and odd appearance. It definitely looks cold there too. |
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| German SS troops in Russia. One has a Gew. 98 rifle, the predecessor of the Kar98. They were issued in small numbers at the beginning of the war, and some were still kept on with optics for most of the war. The Waffen SS used quite a few non-standard issue weapons (mostly submachine guns. Origins include Czech, French, Russian and others). It's a very well known rifle, the Gew. 98, but it seems rather out of place in WWII. |
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