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While the Germans may have issued a lot of pistols, they still did not play a big part in the war effort. (WWI being famous as the handgun intensive war.) Think of it from the Allied air command view point. You're going to bomb ball bearing works, oil facilities, railroads, shipping, naval ports, airplane factories, anti-aircraft gun factories, and a host of other items before you start to worry about bombing a hand gun factory.