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German Army captain Wilhelm Traub armed with a PPSh-41 in Stalingrad during the autumn of 1942. A Red Army soldier armed with a PPSh-41 marches a German soldier into captivity after the Battle of Stalingrad, 1943. A map with users of the PPSh-41 in blue and former users in red
Troops on both sides each favored the other's submachine guns. German troops used Soviet PPSh-41 submachine guns and Red Army troops (and Soviet partisans) used captured German MP-40s. After the Battle of Stalingrad in 1943, several hundred German Panzer III tanks and similar StuG III assault guns/tank destroyers were captured. A significant ...
German prisoners of war and Austrian construction workers were used to build the 3,000-square-foot (280 m 2) site. [6] The memorial includes a triumphal arch and is dominated by the figure of a soldier with a PPSh-41 submachine gun on his chest. The soldier wears a golden helmet and holds a Soviet flag and a golden emblem of the Soviet Union ...
A captured PPSh-41 converted to 9×19mm Parabellum caliber for use by German forces. MP 717(r) Numerous 7.63×25mm Mauser: Wehrmacht: A captured, unconverted PPSh-41 placed in German service and supplied with 7.63×25mm Mauser ammunition TZ-45: Fabbrica Fratelli Giandoso 9×19mm Parabellum: Wehrmacht (possibly)
October 1942: A German soldier with a Soviet PPSh-41 submachine gun in Barrikady factory rubble. The brutality of the battle was noted in a journal found on German lieutenant Weiner of the 24th Panzer Division: [117] The street is no longer measured by meters but by corpses... Stalingrad is no longer a town.
The PPS was created in response to a Red Army requirement for a compact and lightweight weapon with similar accuracy and projectile energy to the Soviet PPSh-41 submachine gun widely deployed at the time, with reduced rate of fire, produced at lower material cost and requiring fewer man-hours, particularly skilled labour. [1]
U.S. Army Pvt. Jeremiah P. Mahoney was killed amid fierce fighting with German forces. ... 41 PM. A 19-year-old soldier who was killed during World War II has been accounted for, military ...
MP 38 & MP 40 (150-160 SMGs delivered with German vehicles during Continuation War, mainly used by vehicle crews of these delivered vehicles) [133] PPD-34, PPD-34/38 & PPD-40 (Captured. Issued to Finnish coastal troops and home-front troops during Continuation War) [133] [134] PPSh-41 (Some 2,500 captured 1942-1944.