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Preview: 'The Schmeisser Myth'
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The MP38 and subsequent MP40 are perhaps the most iconic German submachine guns of the World War II era. Yet, due to erroneous identification by the Allies back in 1940, these carbines are still commonly called “Schmeissers” to this day—despite a lineage that does not tract back to the creative mid of German arms designer Hugo Schmeisser. |
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MarkHamTownsend
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They are not "carbines, " they're submachine guns. They were pretty innovative for the time, and more advanced than the iconic Thompson submachine gun Americans used.
The M3 Greasegun was our "innovative" subgun, which was introduced later in the war but never totally replaced the Thompson. |
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