Well... there really was no reason to copy the 1911. The Germans occupied territory that included FN... so they had all the Browning Hi Powers they could manufacture. I watched a clip of a German soldier carrying a pistol through the hedgerow country. I kept thinking it was a 1911. Nope... after a dozen watchings, that pistol, in my humble opine... was a Hi Power. Just wish JM Browning had lived to see that pistol through!
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Anonymously, penned on a sign at a command post at Khe Sanh, RVN.
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