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Posted: 2/13/2007 5:09:14 PM EDT
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This may be silly, but after watching "Tank Overhaul" on the Military Channel and their visit to the tank records I began wondering... Is there any site online where we can search by serial number to see at what point during the year K98's were built at a certain factory? I have an "ar" coded rifle made in '44 and was wondering if it saw any action. |
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Per Law's book Backbone of the Wehrmacht, no mauser k98k's were manufactured at Borsigwalde in 1944. All 1944 AR marked k98ks were actually manufactured at Oberndorf. He doesn't explain why, my guess would be either something to do with Alled bombing, or other war related emergency. ie.. the receiver was manufactured and marked the factory was then abandoned or switched to make something else and the completed receivers were moved to Oberndorf and assembled there. I didn't see any other manufacturer that didn't assemble in 1944, just Mauser/Borsigwalde. Your rifle was assembled in 1944, just not in the Borsigwalde factory. Just trying to give you the history.. didn't mean to confuse you. |
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