RE: true-crime-style color illustration from metallicman’s original blog post
Is it just me, or are other forum members wondering just what the relevance is, of the Prezio (?) painting to an retrospective that doesn’t mention either P08s or Thompsons?
Just a few technical discrepancies:
- the dying Nazi villain has just let go of a very special P08, a mirror-image one: safety, takedown lever, and takedown latch plate are all on the right side. I’ve not seen every P08 ever made, but I have yet to see one where these features are anyplace but on the left side of the pistol.
- the US GI with the five-o’clock shadow blazing away with his Thompson doesn’t appear to be carrying any spare magazines. He does, however, appear to be wearing the standard web pouch belt which could in each compartment hold a pair of M1903 chargers or a single M1 Garand clip.
- there is no string of empty cases popping out of the Thompson gun’s ejection port. Pretty unlikely, given the gun’s cyclic rate of some 700 rds/min. And considering the position and angle of the ejection port, that stream of empties ought to be bouncing off the room’s door and flying all over, in front of the GI, into his pockets, down his shirt, whatever.
Perhaps it doesn’t matter. Combat is pretty chaotic, and any soldier might be toting any given personal weapon at any moment, depending on what’s available among battlefield pickups. Even the weapons of the enemy.