5 th Army in the Italian front in WWII using. Traditionally armed with 7x57mm bolt-action Mauser rifles, Brazilian Army’s FEB – Força Expedicionária Brasileira (Brazilian Expeditionary Force) fought alongside the U.S. But it was the earlier Gewehr 43 that eventually caught the attention of Brazil as a possible way of locally manufacturing a semi-auto rifle for its armed forces, the Brazilian G43. The deep influence of the subsequent 7.92x33mm MP43/MP44/StG44 family on the post-war “assault rifle” design concept is equally well recognized. World War II, as well known, marked the actual in-combat debut of semi-automatic rifles by the main nations involved, such as the United States (with the.
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