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[[Image:GEMP40-5.jpg|thumb|none|600px|A French resistance member with an MP40 hands ??? over to a Spanish guide.]] | [[Image:GEMP40-5.jpg|thumb|none|600px|A French resistance member with an MP40 hands ??? over to a Spanish guide.]] | ||
+ | ==Luger P08== | ||
+ | All high ranking officers and soldiers at the camp keep [[Luger P08]] pistols as their sidearms. After the escape, Cpt. Hilts ([[Steve McQueen]]) plants clear wire on a road way and causes a German soldier on a bike (secretivly played by Steve McQueen) to crash. He steals the soldier's uniform and Luger before eventually being captured. | ||
+ | [[Image:LugerP08Pistol.jpg|thumb|none|400px|Luger P08 - 9mm.]] | ||
+ | [[Image:GELugerP08-1.jpg|thumb|none|600px|After a guard catches the POWs climbing out of the tunnel. Hilts ([[Steve McQueen]]) runs out and yells "Don't shoot!". It's so nice how the soldiers reaction is to whip around and fire his Luger P08 at him.]] | ||
+ | [[Image:GELugerP08-2.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Hilts takes aim with a stolen Luger P08.]] | ||
+ | [[Image:GELugerP08-3.jpg|thumb|none|600px|One of the German soldiers that captures Lt. Hendley ([[James Garner]]) is seen with a Luger P08.]] | ||
Revision as of 03:38, 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.
![](/images/thumb/a/a6/GEKar98k-2.jpg/600px-GEKar98k-2.jpg)
A German soldier with a Karabiner 98k puts Capt. Hilts (Steve McQueen) in the cooler, hence his name "The Cooler King".
![](/images/thumb/7/7d/GEKar98k-4.jpg/600px-GEKar98k-4.jpg)
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".
![](/images/thumb/1/1a/GEKar98k-7.jpg/600px-GEKar98k-7.jpg)
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.
![](/images/thumb/1/18/GEMP40-2.jpg/600px-GEMP40-2.jpg)
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".
Luger P08
All high ranking officers and soldiers at the camp keep Luger P08 pistols as their sidearms. After the escape, Cpt. Hilts (Steve McQueen) plants clear wire on a road way and causes a German soldier on a bike (secretivly played by Steve McQueen) to crash. He steals the soldier's uniform and Luger before eventually being captured.
![](/images/thumb/a/a2/GELugerP08-1.jpg/600px-GELugerP08-1.jpg)
After a guard catches the POWs climbing out of the tunnel. Hilts (Steve McQueen) runs out and yells "Don't shoot!". It's so nice how the soldiers reaction is to whip around and fire his Luger P08 at him.
![](/images/thumb/5/50/GELugerP08-3.jpg/600px-GELugerP08-3.jpg)
One of the German soldiers that captures Lt. Hendley (James Garner) is seen with a Luger P08.