World-War-II-era P.38s was made by Afghanistan/Pakistan, Albania,Īlgeria, Angola, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bulgaria, Chad, Chile, China,Ĭuba, Egypt, Finland, Guatemala, Hungary, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Police units of East Germany, Czechoslovakia and Austria. To the early 1990s in fairly substantial quantities by the military and Into law enforcement and military organizations throughout the world.Ĭaptured, and usually refurbished, P.38s were fielded from mid-1945 From both the East and West, P.38 pistols found their way Smaller, but still significant, quantities of P.38s were also With substantial inventories of captured P.38 pistols. When the war ended, many East European nations found themselves Were swallowed up in the inferno against the Red Army. Walther, Mauser and Spreewerk, from the earliest variants to the last, Tremendous quantities of P.3.8s, manufactured by Germany expended the greatest bulk of its manpower and material on The world by many nations for almost half a century after the war. The P.38 was fielded in substantial numbers throughout Single-action/double-action design with a manual safety combined with aĭecocking device and it was chambered for the still quite popular 9x19mm The time of its introduction, the P.38 was a very modern Manufacturers-Walther, Mauser and Spreewerk-was about 1,190,500. Total World-War-II production of the P.38 by three During Part I of this article, we discussed in considerableĭetail the P.38 during World War II, which replaced the svelte, but Unfortunately was chambered for the rather anemic 7.65mm (.32 ACP)Ĭartridge. War was the innovative German JP Sauer & Sohn 38(H), which Technologically, the most advanced handgun to be fielded during the Of its large magazine capacity it was a documented favorite of the History during World War II and thereafter for quite some time. The Browning High Power also had a venerable Those years, its grip tang was too short and constant hammer bite made
Hand-gun before, during and after the war.Ĭertainly, with regard to caliber, it was. Americans overwhelmingly think that the M1911A1.45 ACP was the best Some very interesting handguns went into and came out of World War
Now he details its lengthy postwar career. In Part I (4/20 issue), Kokalis examined the many wartime variants
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