and reliable—everything a soldier could want from a sidearm—and Walther produced some 1.2 million of them from 1940 to 1945. The P-38 wasn’t again produced for the German military until ...

The German military ... was to be replaced by the Walther P38. However, it was still in widespread use throughout WWII, when it became a prized souvenir to Allied soldiers. It remains one of ...