Some new Fj pics in Town

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Some more, all from the same album

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With dogs

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Again

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Rolf Kepples, snow bath.....brrrr.....

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Kepples again

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More of Rolf

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Wounded in Stalingrad

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Stalingrad again

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more

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Last couple

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Last one in Lufty tropical shirt

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I believe he was the best friend of the album owner I know his last movements in the war thanks to help from other members.

http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...d.php?t=174456

Still looking for info on his units though

http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...d.php?t=174211

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A New pic....

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Hi Simon,

Except for the FJ's in snow the rest are singles. Here is another single FJ photo I just picked up....FJ's with MP40's

Bill, note that those are MP38s, not MP40s. The smooth mag well with round hole gives it away. MP38s had machined receivers and were produced first, then the design was simplified into the stamped receiver version. If you see the same thing with no hole, it's a first model MP40. I'd guess that most MP38s found their way into armored and air divisions (very easy to store), and the FJs used them a lot too.

MP38s are very nice looking guns and easy to admire. Comparing them to MP40s is like doing the same to the MG34 and MG42. Same tool, but some of us drool over all that machine work.

Craig