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Originally Posted by Sieger
German officers, of that period, were financially responsible for providing their own equipment, including such essentials as their own uniforms, boots and pistols. They were, indeed, required to pay for them. I've never heard of an instance where they could go outside of regular regulation issue items, accepted and proofed by the Army, for personal weaponry...
... LP-08, and I really don't know why they were so marked, as all of the Army issue LP-08s were in 9mm.
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Thanks for straightening out my half-accuracies and misconceptions here Sieger! I remembered
partly correctly about officers and their stuff, but now I know it was
required. And
regulated, if they could only acquire pistols, etc. that were Mil accepted! Red 9s, I've seen only in pics, were Artys--can't remember a P-08. Your info about the red 9 numbering for Lugers makes sense--I see now it was unnecessary because no alternate caliber was sanctioned. It is curious that Artys were numbered, in a situation that made it relatively unnecessary to do so.