Broken shell extractor perhaps?
Stephan,
What would be the smallest military unit that would likely have an armourer assigned to it in WWll? Company, battalion, regiment???
A Schützenkompanie einer Sperrdivision (company) in July 1944 had a Waffen- und Geräteunteroffizier (Weapon and equipment NCO) and was equipped with Waffenwerkstattgerät (weapon workshop tools), in this case two "Kleiner Waffenmeisterwerkzeugkasten" (small armorer tool kit). In addition they had spare parts boxes for the different weapons, as example one box Gewehr 41, two boxes MG 42 etc.
In the Regimentstroß (regiment baggage) and Bataillonstroß (bataillon baggage) was the Waffenmeisterpersonal (armorer staff), they was equipped with much more weapon workshop tools than on company level.
I'm not an expert, my informations are not complete and I still research in my documents. Maybe we should start a new thread where we can collect our informations?
Maybe we should start a new thread where we can collect our informations?