Russians with "Tommy" guns

[Von_Mannteufel]

I just bought a book about the fall of sebastopol that was writen in 42 and published in Brazil in 43 and the author keeps talking about russian soldiers with "tommy" guns. Did they have any or he is talkinh about PPSH?

[Juha Hujanen]

SU did receive small amount of Thompson's machine pistols via Lend Lease.They were mainly used by special units.Finns encountered Russians ski and special units with Thompson's occasionally and captured few dozen of these weapons.

/Juha

[Von_Mannteufel]

This include the russian "marines" that fought in sebastopol?

[Juha Tompuri]

Here´s a pic a few days ago:
http://www.thirdreichforum.com/viewtopi ... ht=#260282

Regards, the other Juha

[Lawrence Tandy]

In many books I've read, Germans seem to refer to any SMG including their own as Tommy Guns. Maybe it's the way the language is translated, and tommy gun is as close to an english translation as possible, or they may call them that so us dumb westerners know what they are talking about but I've seen this may times mainly in older books.

[Von_Mannteufel]

I thought of that too Lawrence, but the book is in portuguese, that's why I found it so weird. Maybe in '43 there was no word yet for Sub-Machineguns