The following guns were used in the film The Dirty Dozen :
File:Dirty-dozen.gif The Dirty Dozen (1967)
M3 "Grease Gun" The most commonly seen gun in the film is the older M3 "Grease Gun" . It is not an M3A1 model because the guns clearly have external charging handles on the right side while the M3A1 as divots in the bolt so the bolt can be pinched and pulled back. They also have a much higher rate of fire than the M3A1 model. Prison Military and Police (M&P) guards are seen using them, as well as practically every member of the Dirty Dozen , most notabley Major Reisman (Lee Marvin ) during several scenes in basic training. In reality, the Grease Gun was never fielded in such great numbers but was likley the easiest gun for the film armorers to aquire.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing M3A1 "Grease Gun" - .45 ACP. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Two M&P officers with M3 "Grease Guns". Error creating thumbnail: File missing Major Reisman (Lee Marvin ) shoots out the rope under Pedro Jiminez (Trini López ) as he climbs to persuade him to climb faster. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Major Reisman (Lee Marvin ) holds an M3 "Grease Gun" with two magazines taped together "Jungle Style" on Col. Everett Dasher Breed (Robert Ryan ) and his men when they come to cancel the training of his men. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Roscoe Lever (Stuart Cooper ) takes cover from artillery during the war games while armed with a Grease Gun. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Tassos Bravos (Al Mancini ) with a Grease Gun during the war games. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Vernon Pinkley (Donald Sutherland ) glances at his Grease Gun hidden in a car near to him when disguised as a German soldier outside the mansion. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Sgt. Clyde Bowren (Richard Jaeckel ) hides from a German patrol outside the mansion while armed with a Grease Gun. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Archer Maggot (Telly Savalas ) fires his Grease Gun at Robert Jefferson (Jim Brown ) when he goes crazy in the mansion. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Pinkley (Donald Sutherland ) unloads his Grease Gun at the Germans as they rush out the mansion entrance. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Glenn Gilpin (Ben Carruthers ) with a Grease Gun in the mansion. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Lever (Stuart Cooper ) with a Grease Gun outside the mansion. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Joseph Wladislaw (Charles Bronson ) takes out a German sniper, firing from the hip! Error creating thumbnail: File missing Jefferson (Jim Brown ) also takes out a sniper while firing from the hip. Error creating thumbnail: File missing "We made it!" Victor Franko (John Cassavetes ) with a Grease Gun before being shot. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Franko gets shot by a German soldier with a... Grease Gun?. While the soldier could have captured this gun(as some did during WW2), it is likely they mixed it up with the MP40 he should be using. M1 Garand While the M1 Garand was the most heavily fielded weapon of the U.S. Military during WWII, it is seen somewhat scarcely in the film, mainly in the hands of M&Ps and some of the members of the Dirty Dozen during the war games.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing M1 Garand - .30-06. Error creating thumbnail: File missing An M&P officer on guard with an M1 Garand. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Col. Everett Dasher Breed (Robert Ryan ) line up armed with M1 Garands. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Another shot of Breed's men. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Archer Maggott (Telly Savalas ) on guard duty during the party has an M1 Garand slung over his back. Error creating thumbnail: File missing An M1 Garand in the hands of Joseph Wladislaw (Charles Bronson ) during the war games. Error creating thumbnail: File missing It's a pretty big safety violation to have the muzzle of your rifle pointed at someone's face. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Wladislaw (Charles Bronson ) with an M1 Garand. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Samson Posey (Clint Walker ) with an M1 Garand. M1 Carbine Several of Col. Breed's (Robert Ryan ) men are seen armed with M1 Carbines , although they are only in the background.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing M1 Carbine - .30 Carbine. Error creating thumbnail: File missing One of Breed's men in the background with an M1 Carbine. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A man behind Breed with an M1 Carbine. When Reisman's men dissarm Breed's men, one of them is seen armed with a paratrooper folding stock M1A1 Carbine .
Error creating thumbnail: File missing M1A1 Carbine - .30 Carbine. Error creating thumbnail: File missing One of Reisman's men dissarms one of Breed's men of his M1A1 Carbine. M1911A1 Several M&P officers and Major Reisman (Lee Marvin ) are seen with M1911A1 pistols as their sidearms.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Colt M1911A1 - .45 ACP. Error creating thumbnail: File missing An M1911A1 is seen in Reisman's (Lee Marvin ) holster. Error creating thumbnail: File missing An M&P officer, Sgt. Clyde Bowren (Richard Jaeckel ), opens his holster when Reisman teachs knife fighting. Error creating thumbnail: File missing An M&P officer is seen with an M1911A1 in a holster next to Col. Breed (Robert Ryan ). Error creating thumbnail: File missing An M&P officer with an M1911A1. Browning M1919A4 Several times the Browning M1919A4 is used in the film. First it is seen carried in a jeep by the blue team during the war games. Two are used during the assault on the mansion, one used by Roscoe Lever (Stuart Cooper ) and Seth Sawyer (Colin Maitland ) near the front entrance and the other manned by Tassos Bravos (Al Mancini ) to combat the approaching German vehicles.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Browning M1919A4 - .30-06. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Archer Maggott (Telly Savalas ) rests his hand on a Browning M1919A4 during the war games. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Lever (Stuart Cooper ) mans an M1919A4 near the main entrance while Sawyer (Colin Maitland ) holds the belt box. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Sawyer (Colin Maitland ) fires the M1919A4 at the Germans. Error creating thumbnail: File missing The two fire the M1919A4. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Lever (Stuart Cooper ) grins in satisfaction after taking out a German vehicle with the M1919A4. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Bravos (Al Mancini ) fires the M1919A4 at the German vehicles. Mk 2 hand grenade Several members of the Dirty Dozen keep Mk 2 hand grenades hanging on their belts, most notabley Robert Jefferson (Jim Brown ) and Archer Maggott (Telly Savalas ). While on the roof, Seth Sawyer (Colin Maitland ) gets stuck after having a leg break through the roof on his way to disable the alarm tower. Immobilized, he throws two Mk 2 grenades at the tower to destroy it instead. When preparing to blow up the mansion, Major Reisman (Lee Marvin ) and his men dump bags of Mk 2 grenades down the vents and then dump gasoline to make the building itself a bomb.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Mk 2 hand grenade. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Mk 2 grenades are seen on Jefferson's (Jim Brown ) belt. Having his magazine pouches on the small of his back makes reloading take longer and is not tactically sound. All the Dozen do this. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Mk 2 grenades are seen on Maggott's (Telly Savalas ) belt. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Maggott (Telly Savalas ) lays on a bed in the mansion and plays with a grenade as we see how pshycopathic he really is. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Sawyer (Colin Maitland ) throws two Mk 2 grenades at the alarm tower. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Sgt. Clyde Bowren (Richard Jaeckel ) trips and drops his bag full of Mk 2 grenades. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Reisman (Lee Marvin ) drops grenades down the vents. Error creating thumbnail: File missing The Germans in the shelter pathetically try to push the grenades back up. Beretta 21A Bobcat (suppressed) Joseph Wladislaw (Charles Bronson ) is seen using a Beretta 21A Bobcat fitted with a sound suppressor to kill several guards at the gates of the mansion. While inside the mansion, he manages to kill a radio operator with it before leaving it there. Since the Bobcat pistol has a tip open barrel, this makes small acorn .22 blanks easy to load and unload with non-blank converted guns (which this clearly is since it doesn't cycle). This is likely why this gun was chosen since it was not made at the time of WWII.
Beretta 21A Bobcat threaded for a suppressor - .22 long rifle. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Wladislaw (Charles Bronson ) kills the Germans at the gate with a suppressed Beretta 21A Bobcat. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Wladislaw (Charles Bronson ) kills a radio operator with the suppressed Beretta Bobcat. 25 Pounder artillery gun's During the war games, the Red team fires on the Blue team with British 25 Pounder guns.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing The red team fire the 25 Pounder guns. Error creating thumbnail: File missing The red team fire the 25 Pounder guns. Error creating thumbnail: File missing The red team reloads the 25 Pounder guns. Webley & Scott Flare Pistol Samson Posey (Clint Walker ) fires a Webley & Scott Flare Pistol into the air to signal to the others that the German's have arrived.
File:Webley&ScottFlare.jpg Webley & Scott Flare Pistol. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Posey (Clint Walker ) fires the flare pistol into the air. Karabiner 98k German soldiers carry Karabiner 98k rifles during the final shootout at the mansion. Like many WWII films from 1960-1980, the MP40 submachine gun is inaccurately shown as the main weapon of the German army instead of the Kar98k.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Karabiner 98k - 7.92x57mm. Error creating thumbnail: File missing The two Germans that get killed outside the gate are armed with Karabiner 98k. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A German on patrol with a Kar98k slung over his back. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A German soldier with a Kar98k. Karabiner 98k Sniper At one point in the film, a German sniper is seen using a Karabiner 98k fitted with a scope (which appears to have infrared vision, which wasn't available on such a small scope at the time) and uses it to kill Milo Vladek (Tom Busby ) with a shot between the eyes.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Karabiner 98k with Zeiss ZF42 scope - 7.92x57mm. Error creating thumbnail: File missing While the reticle is correct, the infrared capability isn't. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A German sniper sneaks out the window armed with a Karabiner 98k sniper rifle. Error creating thumbnail: File missing The sniper takes aim with his Kar98k. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A scope this small at the time could not be capable of infrared vision. Also, this is a horrible and clearly fake scope mount. The first German sniper is hilariously seen using an American M1 Garand with the same fake scope mount, likely because of a lack of 7.92mm blanks or firing Kar98k rifles.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing The sniper fires the M1 Garand at Jefferson (Jim Brown ). Error creating thumbnail: File missing The sniper falls out the window and drops his M1 Garand. MP40 Germans are inaccurately seen armed mainly with MP40 submachine guns.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing MP40 - 9mm. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A German soldier armed with an MP40 gets shot by Pinkley (Donald Sutherland ). Error creating thumbnail: File missing A German shoots Pinkley (Donald Sutherland ) with his MP40. Error creating thumbnail: File missing When the German is shot, he drops his MP40 and it goes off. The bolt lock was applied for this very reason but it is obvious he didn't have time to lock it before being killed. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A German fires his MP40, eyes closed. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A German reaches for his MP40 after playing dead. Error creating thumbnail: File missing The German fires his MP40 at the members of the Dozen on the armored vehicle. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A German with an MP40 prepares to shoot Jefferson (Jim Brown ). Error creating thumbnail: File missing A German fires his MP40 at Lever (Stuart Cooper ) and Sawyer (Colin Maitland ) on the boat. MG42 Samson Posey (Clint Walker ) mans an MG42 to combat the approaching German vehicles. The gun is fitted with a 50 round drum. The same gun is seen mounted on a German vehicle but not clear enough to see.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing MG42 - 7.92x57mm. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Posey (Clint Walker ) loads his MG42. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Posey (Clint Walker ) fires the MG42 at the German vehicles. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A nice side shot of the MG42 when Posey (Clint Walker ) takes cover from a German vehicle firing the same weapon. MG34 An MG34 is seen fired from a German vehicle before members of the Dozen knock it off the bridge with their own vehicle.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing MG34 - 7.92x57mm. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A gunner fires an MG34 from an armored vehicle. (is this a mocked up American vehicle?) Error creating thumbnail: File missing A better shot of the MG34. Walther P38 When Major Reisman (Lee Marvin ) and Joseph Wladislaw (Charles Bronson ) infiltrate the German mansion disguised as German officers, they keep Walther P38s as their sidearms and use them to shoot the guards outside the shelter entrance before sealing the people inside.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Walther P38 - 9mm. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Reisman (Lee Marvin ) and Wladislaw (Charles Bronson ) draw and fire their Walther P38s on the guards outside the shelter. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Close up of Wladislaw's (Charles Bronson ) Walther P38. Error creating thumbnail: File missing The Walther P38 firing. Luger P08 For some reason as Reisman (Lee Marvin ) and Wladislaw (Charles Bronson ) leave the underground shelter, their Walther P38s change to Luger P08s .
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Luger P08 - 9mm. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Reisman (Lee Marvin ) and Wladislaw (Charles Bronson ) with Luger P08s. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Reisman (Lee Marvin ) peaks around the corner with his Luger P08 at the ready. Unknown German AA gun When the remaining members of the Dirty Dozen try to escape in an armored vehicle, the look back to see it is towning an unknown German Anti-Aircraft (AA) gun. Victor Franko (John Cassavetes ) then jumps off and removes the hitch.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing The group looks back at the AA gun. 
