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The Walther P38 (originally written Walther P.38) is a 9 mm semi-automatic pistol that was developed by Carl Walther GmbH as the service pistol of the Wehrmacht at the beginning of World War II. It was intended to replace the comparatively complex and expensive to produce Luger P08. Moving the production lines to the more easily mass producible ...
Walther, Mauser, Gustloff: 9×19mm Parabellum: 50 1945 16~ 1.088 Prototype semi-automatic pistol. Walther P38: Pistol: Close-quarters, sidearm Short recoil, locked breech Nazi Germany: Various - Walther, Mauser, Spreewerk: 9×19mm Parabellum: 50 1939 1,000,000 0.800 Standard issue pistol during World War II Walther PP: Pistol: Close-quarters ...
In the first half of 1944, the German troops had lost more than 110,000 pistols, when the project started (by the end of the year, an additional 170,000 had been lost), as Carl Walther GmbH, Mauser, and Spreewerk, the three major producers of the current service pistol, the Walther P38, could not produce P38s fast enough to account for their losses.
Metallwarenfabrik Spreewerk GmbH was a German weapons manufacturing company. Spreewerk produced a number of important weapons and components before and during World War II including 280,880 [1] of the Walther P.38 pistol which was the standard service pistol of the German Heer, and the famous 8.8 cm Flak anti-aircraft gun.
The following is a list of World War II German Firearms which includes German firearms, prototype firearms and captured foreign firearms used by the Wehrmacht, Luftwaffe, Waffen-SS, Deutsches Heer, the Volkssturm and other military armed forces in World War II.
Luger P-08 (Original standard-issue military pistol, was intended to be replaced by the Walther P-38 as it was cheaper to produce, the P08 however was still produced until 1942 because of production movement to different factories.) [217] [218] [219] Mauser C96 (Rarer than the Luger P-08. Not officially distributed) [217]
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This is a list of weapons used by the Portuguese military during World War II. ... Walther P38; Mauser C96; Walther PP; Revolvers. Smith & Wesson M1899 Military [4]