Stephan98k
aka 8x57IS
Some time ago, I wrote something about "Lost and interchanged weapons" and how important the exchange was for the units. I have shown some examples, but all were dated before September 1, 1939. Some people think that this topic was not so important during the war, the Germans had enough other problems, but even at the end of 1943 meticulous care was taken.
Ostseetagesbefehl by the Navy High Command Ostsee from November 24, 1943:
At the Navy-train station-command Kiel was stored these listed K98k which was lost from the owners. The owners or units who lost these weapons should contact the Navy-train station-command Kiel to get them back.
One of these K98k is a Sauer & Sohn "147 1939" with the serial number 6375.
They only wrote the serial number without the suffix and the example above has the serial number 6375a. Certainly it's not the mentioned rifle, in 1939 existed 20 K98k with the code "147 1939" and the serial number 6375.
Ostseetagesbefehl by the Navy High Command Ostsee from July 26, 1943:
On May 28, 1943, during a train ride from Hamburg to Kiel, two rifles were interchanged with two Czech carbines. The exchange has to take place at the Sperrschule in Kiel. This example is interesting in my opinion, because not the code and serial number, but the Navy property number is called and the two Baltic Sea property numbers are not far from each other.
Regards,
Stephan
Ostseetagesbefehl by the Navy High Command Ostsee from November 24, 1943:
At the Navy-train station-command Kiel was stored these listed K98k which was lost from the owners. The owners or units who lost these weapons should contact the Navy-train station-command Kiel to get them back.
One of these K98k is a Sauer & Sohn "147 1939" with the serial number 6375.
They only wrote the serial number without the suffix and the example above has the serial number 6375a. Certainly it's not the mentioned rifle, in 1939 existed 20 K98k with the code "147 1939" and the serial number 6375.
Ostseetagesbefehl by the Navy High Command Ostsee from July 26, 1943:
On May 28, 1943, during a train ride from Hamburg to Kiel, two rifles were interchanged with two Czech carbines. The exchange has to take place at the Sperrschule in Kiel. This example is interesting in my opinion, because not the code and serial number, but the Navy property number is called and the two Baltic Sea property numbers are not far from each other.
Regards,
Stephan