ENEMY WEAPONS Part V – German Infantry, Engineer and Airborne weapons.

This pamphlet is Part V of a series, and deals with German Infantry, Engineer and Airborne weapons. It was issued by the British War Office in July, 1943. There are details of German grenades and grenade dischargers, which includes the 27mm Kampfpistole, the rifle grenade discharger (Schiessbecher) and the sighting equipment, and the spigot type rifle discharger. The section on machine carbines looks at the Bergmann MP18, the 9mm MP28 (the so-called Schmeisser), the MP34 (Bergmann) and the Steyr-Solothurn MP34(o). Under rifles there is treatment of the important Gew 41 7.92mm self-loading rifle. Among machine guns it treats in detail the relatively new (in 1943) MG42, and there are notes on the MG34 S and the MG34/41. Mortars: the 8cm German mortar 34, the 10cm Nebelwerfer 35 and the 20cm leichte Landungswerfer are shown, and there is a table of compatibility between British, German and Italian mortar ammunition. Airborne guns: this section shows the revolutionary 7.5cm LG40 in great detail. All reports are accompanied by drawings and there are photographs of the MG42 and the LG40.
This pamphlet is of great importance to students of infantry weapons, particularly of airborne troops with its detailed examination of the LG40.