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Capt. Vick said:
Looks like he is carrying a Russian machine gun, no?
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Although it looks like the soviet PPSz-41 but it is not the one. That's the Finnish Suomi M31 machine gun. It can be clearly seen in the enlarged pic. The barrel is protruding from the perforated jacket without the recoil compensator that was built into the barrel cooling jacket for the PPSz.. Also the perforated jacket has three apertures there while the PPSz one had them four excluding the one for the muzzle brake. Also the mount of the barrel jacket under the gun chamber at the round catrige magazine looks different for both MGs. Here shots...



The Suomi M31


The PPSz-41 ..


pic source: the Internet.
 
Thank you for the clarification, Wurger ... soviet PPSz-41s were nonetheless carried by Germans as stated.
The Finnish gun predates the design and production of the PPSz-4 (it was designed and manufactured in Moscow starting in 1941) and the Soviets had been contemptuous of the utility of sub machine guns until they experienced what the Finns could do with them in the 1939 - 40 Winter War.
 
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