April 13, 2019 Saturday
Bedtime Story
Sardine Packing
Among the Russians the submachine gun
PPSh-41 or the pistolet-pulemyot Shpagina weapon is referred to as “pe-pe-sha”
or more commonly and amusingly “papasha” which in Russian stands for “daddy”.
It was cheap, reliable and capable of
firing 1000 rounds per minute that was an astonishingly high firing rate in
comparison to other submachine guns of that era.
Its drum magazine was capable of holding 71
rounds of 7.62 x 25 mm Tokarev Russian rimless bottlenecked pistol cartridge.
So handy were these submachine that when a
large catchment of PPSh-41 was seized by the German Army during World War II
from the Soviets they initiated a program to convert these weapons to be useful
for the standard German submachine gun cartridge that is known as 9 x 19 mm
Parebellum.
These 9 x 19 mm Parebellum firearms cartridges
were the other invention of the Austrian creator and designer Georg Luger of
the famous Luger pistol which is also known as Pistol Parabellum that is most
commonly depicted in the World War II movies.
Its toggle-lock mechanism is indeed
fascinating to watch as it links the barrel, the loaded cartridges, the breech
assembly, the spent casing and trigger into one compact mechanism that work in
unison which allows the spent casing to be ejected and a fresh cartridge to be
automatically loaded once a shot has been fired within a fraction of a second.
This pistol would later evolve into Walther
P38 - a 9 mm semiautomatic pistol – that would replace Luger as the standard
service pistol of Wehrmacht.
Carl Walther GmbH Sportwaffen or Carl Walther
Limited Liability Company or more famously and simply Walther still remains one
of the most respected firearms and air guns manufacturer in the world
today.
It’s association with the World War II and
the Holocaust has in no way diminished its stature and respect in the guns and
firearms market of the world.
Once the naked people had lain down face
down inside the dug up pit over another freshly shot dead body the executioner
standing on the head side of the pit was ordered to fire just one shot at the
back of the head with PPSh-41 submachine gun.
It was mandatory that precious cartridges
were not wasted as they were more needs in the battle front lines.
It was better to be dead instantaneously
than to have survived the shot as what would follow would make the survivor’s
death even more hideous.
After the pit was deemed full (of pile of
dead and naked human bodies) and perceived as capable of accommodating no more
it was covered up with mud.
Anyone left alive would most certainly die
of suffocation or slow bleeding or a combination of both.
The “Jeckeln System” was also known by the
German name of Sardinenpackung or in English “sardine packing” and you can very
well understand why.
Sardine packing was a component of Dünamünde
Action.
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Good night Mon Ami and my fellow cousin ape.
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While I narrate stories, Professor Subhashish an electronic
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physics.
He started the participation of Indian students at the
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