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Too late for WWII, but I remember people saying the S&W "Airweight" .38 snubbie was originally designed to be carried by fighter pilots because they were lighter and more compact than a .45 but still fired an effective round.


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He was with the first arrivals of the 19th to Australia. They were also the first troops on the newly converted Queen Mary as a troopship. There were 6 men to a room originally for 2. He showed me the room number plate from the door. Because the ship was considered too fast to intercept by submarine, they had no escort and did not zigzag.
 
Those civilian loads used 130gr. bullet. I remember Remington still offering that load when I was kid in the early 70's.
So there were two versions of the Victory revolver?
How confusing...and made even more so when you realize the .38/200 round that the Enfield #2 (and the Lend-Lease Victory guns) was chambered for is based on the .38 S&W, not the .38 S&W Special (.361 bullet vs. .356 bullet), yet the Navy got the Special round.
...logistics nightmare!


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