Dave Shoup
Banned
I remember being on a sort of German-wank site a few years back where they insisted that the Wehrmacht loved the M-1 carbine, and that they would replace all the individual weapons in select PanzerGrenadier platoons with them when they picked up enough guns and ammo to make it work...anybody else ever hear that one?
No, but given the exigencies of German supply by 1943, not surprising. For most of 1943, the German armored formations in the west had more French-built tanks dating from 1940 and before than they had German-built tanks; divisional scales of German-manufactured equipment didn't really get into their hands until the winter of 1943-44 and afterwards. Artillery, trucks, small arms, etc. were pretty variegated, even into 1944-45.