Unit mark PIO/6

Doug G. · 02-10-2005, 10:03 PM

This is on a Walther KKW SA (Sturmabteilung) training rifle. I have scoured the web without luck to find out what this mark means. Any help observations or outright guessing would be appriciated.

Ron Smith · 02-10-2005, 11:03 PM

Hi Doug, My guess would be a Weimar Reichswehr unit. If it is a unit mark.
The / is used in Reichswehr unit marks. "PI" could indicate a "Pioneer" unit. The "O" I'm not sure of.
Ron

George Anderson · 02-11-2005, 06:30 AM

I believe it is a marking unique to the NSDAP and not military at all as it bears the SA property mark. Perhaps someone on the Wehrmacht Awards sight can help you, there is a pot-full of knowledge regarding all things Nazi with that group. They make us Luger people look like a bunch of tweed wearing pipe smokers.

02-10-2005, 10:03 PM	#1
Doug G. User Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Illinois Posts: 713 Thanks: 1 Thanked 53 Times in 17 Posts	Unit mark PIO/6 This is on a Walther KKW SA (Sturmabteilung) training rifle. I have scoured the web without luck to find out what this mark means. Any help observations or outright guessing would be appriciated. __________________ Suppose you were an idiot.....and suppose you were a member of Congress.....But I repeat myself" ~~ Mark Twain

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Ron Smith User Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Orygun Posts: 4,243 Thanks: 118 Thanked 245 Times in 150 Posts	Hi Doug, My guess would be a Weimar Reichswehr unit. If it is a unit mark. The / is used in Reichswehr unit marks. "PI" could indicate a "Pioneer" unit. The "O" I'm not sure of. Ron __________________ I Still Need DWM side plate #49... if anyone runs across a nice one. What ~Rudyard Kipling~ said...

02-11-2005, 06:30 AM	#3
George Anderson Lifer Lifetime Forum Patron Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: VA Posts: 3,592 Thanks: 1,771 Thanked 2,527 Times in 786 Posts	I believe it is a marking unique to the NSDAP and not military at all as it bears the SA property mark. Perhaps someone on the Wehrmacht Awards sight can help you, there is a pot-full of knowledge regarding all things Nazi with that group. They make us Luger people look like a bunch of tweed wearing pipe smokers.