FJ use of .30 cal Browning - Late War

[jhv 41]

Here's one you don't see often:

Fallschirmjäger watching for allied traffic on Departmental Road 6 with a captured .30 Browning.

As a veteran of Fallschirmjäger Regiment 9 recalls,”There was an acute shortage of weapons and ammunition from 11.7.1944 onwards so we had to make do with recovered weapons in order to continue fighting.”


Departmental Road 6 ran between Saint-Lô and Saint-Clair-sur-l’Elle, more or less delineating the front for the newly reorganized German forces in the area between 7 and 10.7.1944.

Source: Fallschirmjager in France, Saint-Lô 1944, Saint-Clair-sur-l'Elle, Departmental Road 6, WWII History

 

[mauser99]

looks like Normandy. Probably captured position. I'm sure they were sorely disappointed with it....

 

[agalland]

looks like Normandy. Probably captured position. I'm sure they were sorely disappointed with it....

Yah..no doubt...an MG 42 it isnt.

 

[GunKraut]

looks like Normandy. Probably captured position. I'm sure they were sorely disappointed with it....

Yeah, it goes pat pat pat pat pat where a real MG goes PRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT!

 

[iron bender]

This is the second pic I've seen of FJ6 with a 1919 at Normandy. In the other pic they're shooting the 1919a4 backwards on the tripod, just like this pic. Propaganda? Guess I need to start looking for this pic. Please note it sure looks like fj trooper on right is wearing a piece of US GI parachute as a scarf.

 

[Seamie]

Not surprising. By the summer of '44 the rail network in northern France was in shambles.

 

[tsmgguy]

Parachute equipment bundles had been misdropped all over the Normandy area. I'm sure many fell into the wrong hands.

 

[jhv 41]

This is the second pic I've seen of FJ6 with a 1919 at Normandy. In the other pic they're shooting the 1919a4 backwards on the tripod, just like this pic. Propaganda? Guess I need to start looking for this pic.

This is probably the pic you were thinking of.

 

[iron bender]

That's it.