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[[Image:GreatEscapeCover.jpg|thumb|right|300px|''The Great Escape (1963)'']] | [[Image:GreatEscapeCover.jpg|thumb|right|300px|''The Great Escape (1963)'']] | ||
==Karabiner 98k== | |||
German soldiers at the camp are seen armed with [[Karabiner 98k]] rifles, although like many WWII films between 1960-1980, the [[MP40]] is innaccurately portrayed as the main weapon of the German Army. | |||
[[Image:Karabiner-98K.jpg|thumb|none|400px|Karabiner 98k - 7.92x57mm.]] | |||
[[Image:GEKar98k-1.jpg|thumb|none|600px|A German soldier amred with a Karabiner 98k holds back a mob trying to watch a fake fight between two POWs, intended to distract the guards from other POWs escaping in the trucks.]] | |||
[[Image:GEKar98k-2.jpg|thumb|none|600px|A German soldier with a Karabiner 98k puts Capt. Hilts ([[Steve McQueen]]) in the cooler, hence his name "The Cooler King".]] | |||
[[Image:GEKar98k-3.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Two Germans with Kar98k rifles put Hilts in the cooler once again for another escape attempt.]] | |||
[[Image:GEKar98k-4.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Flight Lt. Hendley "The Scrounger" ([[James Garner]]) helps guide the blind Flight Lt. Colin Blythe "The Forger" ([[Donald Pleasence]]) to one of the German planes in an airfield, armed with captured Kar98k taken from a guard he knocked out. The planes in the airfield are American AT-6 Texan trainers mocked up with German paint, although the plane they steal is an authentic German Bucker Bu 181 "Bestmann".]] | |||
[[Image:GEKar98k-5.jpg|thumb|none|600px|German soldiers armed with Kar98k rifles aprehend Hendley after the plane crashes and Blythe is shot.]] | |||
[[Image:GEKar98k-6.jpg|thumb|none|600px|A Spanish tracker guides ??? (can't find his name) from Germany to Spain with a Kar98k slung over his back.]] | |||
[[Image:GEKar98k-7.jpg|thumb|none|600px|A German soldier locks Hilts in the cooler at the end of the film with a KAr98k slung on his back. This gun has a straight bolt, which isn't correct for the era as the German issued models had turned bolts. This implies this is a Kar98k stock and barrel with an older 1920s straight bolt action reciever.]] | |||
==MP40== | |||
The [[MP40]] submachine gun is the most commonly seen weapon in the hands of German soldiers. | |||
[[Image:MP40Side.jpg|thumb|none|400px|MP40 - 9mm.]] | |||
[[Image:GEMP40-1.jpg|thumb|none|600px|German soldiers armed with MP40s.]] | |||
[[Image:GEMP40-2.jpg|thumb|none|600px|A German soldier holds his MP40 on Capt. Hilts ([[Steve McQueen]]) when he tries to stop the guards from shooting Goff ([[Jud Taylor]]) when he climbs the fence, snapping under the pressure when the Germans find their tunnel "Tom".]] | |||
[[Image:GEMP40-3.jpg|thumb|none|600px|A German officer holds his MP40 on the POWs after the escape gets interupted midway with 79 escapes.]] | |||
[[Image:GEMP40-4.jpg|thumb|none|600px|German soldiers point their MP40s at Hilts after they shoot his Motorcycle and he skids into barbed wire. Without the bolts cocked back, the guns are rather useless.]] | |||
[[Image:GEMP40-5.jpg|thumb|none|600px|A French resistance member with an MP40 hands ??? over to a Spanish guide.]] | |||
Revision as of 03:09, 16 January 2009
The following guns were used in the film The Great Escape:
Karabiner 98k
German soldiers at the camp are seen armed with Karabiner 98k rifles, although like many WWII films between 1960-1980, the MP40 is innaccurately portrayed as the main weapon of the German Army.
MP40
The MP40 submachine gun is the most commonly seen weapon in the hands of German soldiers.
