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As a last-ditch measure in the nearly lost war, on 18 October 1944 the Deutscher Volkssturm was mobilized – a German national militia. To arm them under conditions of depleted manpower and limited available production capacities the Primitiv-Waffen-Programm ("primitive weapons program") was initiated. It called for weapons that were as easy ...
The Type 99 is one of the strongest military bolt-action rifles ever made, [7] but many late-war ("last ditch") rifles used lower quality parts, and a complete lack of finish, as well as shortcuts taken to ease production. The "last ditch" rifles are usually distinguished by their crudeness: poorly finished stock, wooden buttplate, very obvious ...
A last-ditch semi-automatic carbine with a 10 or 30 round detachable box magazine. - VK-98: Gustloff-Werke 7.92x57mm Mauser: Volkssturm: A bolt action rifle with a 10 round internal magazine. - Gewehr 43K: Carl Walther GmbH: 7.92x33mm Kurz: Wehrmacht Volkssturm: Similar to the Gewehr 43 rifle but the difference is the rifle uses a 30 round StG ...
The Germans husbanded their resources in the preceding months at the expense of the units defending against the Allied strategic bombing in what was a last-ditch effort to keep up the momentum of the German Army (Heer) during the stagnant stage of the Battle of the Bulge (codenamed "Operation Watch on the Rhine" German: Unternehmen Wacht am Rhein).
The last-ditch mission is "immediate suppression" or final protective fire: Every gun in any concerned battery immediately fires whatever round and fuse is loaded, possibly from someone else's, or more than one callsign's mission.
The 9×19mm MP 3008 (Maschinenpistole 3008 or "machine pistol 3008", also Volks-MP.3008 and Gerät Neumünster [1]) was a German last ditch submachine gun manufactured towards the end of World War II in early 1945.
In a media release, Mike Ramsey, the county’s district attorney, said a 42-year-old Chico man was seen Wednesday just before 3 p.m. pushing a car that was on fire into a ditch near Alligator ...
German infantry taking cover behind trees on the Eastern Front. One man carries the Flammenwerfer 35. This flamethrower, like all flamethrowers employed by the Wehrmacht, was exclusively used by sturmpionieres (assault pioneers); specialist pioneers who were to assist the infantry in an assault, by overcoming natural and man-made obstacles for the infantry, clearing enemy fortifications with ...