Early Experience with Assault Rifles
In the spring of 1944, the German Army High Command (Oberkommando des Heeres), sent out a questionnaire to units which had been equipped with“machine pistol model 43/1,” a weapon that would soon be re-designated as the “assault rifle” (Sturmgewehr.) The responses contained a number of interesting descriptions of squad, platoon, and company battles…
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4 months ago · Bruce I. Gudmundsson
