#4142486 - 07/03/15 11:52 AM
Re: A little OT: Pilot sidearms? Type?
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Hadn't Colt also produced some .380 Autos about that time? Or was that later? As for the German Pistols, there still was the Mauser C96. One of the most stylish Handguns ever built ...wasn't really a "Mass-Production", but on the other Hand, there weren't many Pilots in the Beginning, also.
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#4142489 - 07/03/15 12:06 PM
Re: A little OT: Pilot sidearms? Type?
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It seems that the French also used the Mauser as "Emergency Weapon", here is the story of a fight of Brocard in a Nieuport 10 (monoplace) against an Albatros (two seater) in July 1915. The fight starts with Brocard shooting the Albatros with its Winchester rifle*, wounding the observer(who fell from the aircraft later, during a manoeuver), he continued the fight with a Mauser.* The Mauser also appears in the list of weapons used in by the Armée d'Orient (14/02/1916) As these accounts are both early in the war and in a "secondary" theatre where new aircraft and weapons arrived later than in the western front, we can assume that maybe other weapons that the Mauser were used by the French. *This story is from "Le Temps des Carabines" by René Chambe (observer & pilot during WW1, later Général in the Armée de l'Air) (Don't you find that "Le Temps des Carabines" will make a great name a WOFF add-on, with rifles for MS/AviatiksB & Nieuport 10?;) )
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#4142935 - 07/04/15 06:57 PM
Re: A little OT: Pilot sidearms? Type?
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#4143182 - 07/05/15 09:04 PM
Re: A little OT: Pilot sidearms? Type?
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I agree, RAF Lou is the answer man. My guess would be a 32 cal. To confuse the issue there were numerous FN Browning autos floating around during that time. They also fired 32 Cal (7.65mm) and 25 Cal.
Last edited by carrick58; 07/05/15 09:12 PM.
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CD WOFF
by Britisheh. 03/28/24 08:05 PM
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