Ok, I don't know anything about Sauers ... I assume that's what it is.
Recently, while roaming the Homeland- Mother museum in Kiev, I came across this part of the exposition. Pavlichenko, one of the famed Soviet female snipers and her side arm: "Zauer" I would presume Sauer. Which one is it, what cal etc?
Tag basically says in Uki: L.M. Pavlichenko - sniper of the 54th rifles regiment. In the battle for Odessa and Sevastopol, she killed 309 enemy soldiers and officers. She was three time wounded. On Oct 25th, 1943 she was made Hero of the Soviet Union.
I guess the interesting part was that as the side arm, she did not carry a Soviet made pistol, a big no no to the propaganda machine, probably not advertised as the fact that some of the Soviet aces fly American and British made airplanes or Soviet snipers using German optics (the photos of that exist, but were never approved for official photo ops) hence, my interest. To this day, the choice of side arm for a sniper is still somewhat personal preference (from what I know) and some may use "antiquated" guns as choice.
Recently, while roaming the Homeland- Mother museum in Kiev, I came across this part of the exposition. Pavlichenko, one of the famed Soviet female snipers and her side arm: "Zauer" I would presume Sauer. Which one is it, what cal etc?
Tag basically says in Uki: L.M. Pavlichenko - sniper of the 54th rifles regiment. In the battle for Odessa and Sevastopol, she killed 309 enemy soldiers and officers. She was three time wounded. On Oct 25th, 1943 she was made Hero of the Soviet Union.
I guess the interesting part was that as the side arm, she did not carry a Soviet made pistol, a big no no to the propaganda machine, probably not advertised as the fact that some of the Soviet aces fly American and British made airplanes or Soviet snipers using German optics (the photos of that exist, but were never approved for official photo ops) hence, my interest. To this day, the choice of side arm for a sniper is still somewhat personal preference (from what I know) and some may use "antiquated" guns as choice.