This German FG42 came back from Italy as a war souvenir. It travelled back in the hull of a Sherman tank. The men who liberated it from a member of Hitler's First Fallschimjäger Division belonged to the Pretoria Regiment. The FG42 was stashed into one of their M4's and kept safe until they reached Home.
This weapon is in mint condition, rather than the one pictured here.
The Pretoria Regiment began it's time in Italy as part of the 6th South African Armoured Division. It stayed there till the end of the Italian Campaign.

Left are shown details of the makers marks on this particular weapon. The four digits being the guns serial number (once written in a soldiers Solbuch), the three small letters in the middle "FZS" being Heinrich Krieghoff of Suhl, a well known maker of this groundbreaking weapon.

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