Shadows And Dust

peashooter85:

German soldier firing a French MAS-36 rifle, World War II.
After the Fall of France in 1940, German forces captured many French MAS-36 rifles with ammunition.  In an age when nothing goes to waste, these rifles were renamed the Gewehr 242(f) and pressed into service for the Germany Army.  Most were issued to the Volksturm, units of home-guard militia recruited from old men and children.

peashooter85:

German soldier firing a French MAS-36 rifle, World War II.


After the Fall of France in 1940, German forces captured many French MAS-36 rifles with ammunition.  In an age when nothing goes to waste, these rifles were renamed the Gewehr 242(f) and pressed into service for the Germany Army.  Most were issued to the Volksturm, units of home-guard militia recruited from old men and children.

(via cerebralzero)