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May 1Liked by Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson

Great reference page - thank you for the link. For those who prefer hard copy reference material, I have found this work to be extremely useful: Handbook of WWII German Military Symbols and Abbreviations 1943 - 1945 https://a.co/d/30aWjDf

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Many thanks for the link! (The book is the sort of thing that I wish I had had on my shelf for the past four decades.)

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Were these weapons used in Ww2?

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I have yet to run into any evidence that suggests that interwar Minenwerfer were fired in anger in the Second World War.

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It’s almost a shame, the waste…

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I suspect that most were scrapped when the limited ammunition stocks of the Reichswehr were exhausted.

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This gives me much nostalgia for Avalon Hill board games and opening the box for the first time and seeing all the cardboard counters with the symbols for unit size, type, terrain passable etc. that you were going to get to fight with.

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