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Originally Posted by Vlim
Here is a German 9mm box you don't see every day.
It was produced and packaged for use in tropical conditions.
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Gerben, the pic says the soldier
(with one sock) wears an Italian helmet; supposedly he is one of the Ethiopian troops in 1935 (can we call that the beginning of WW II?)...
I was curious as to why the Germans would produce 'Tropical' ammunition in 1942
(or 1943?)...
I leeched a map off Wikipedia showing the tropics...I don't see any areas of German interest that I can think of...
Where would you suppose the German military would think that 'Tropical' ammunition would be used??? I originally thought that maybe the Middle East would qualify, but they are farther North (and mostly desert)...
(There was a Johnny Weissmuller/Tarzan movie about Nazis in the Congo, but I don't think that qualifies either)... 