A machine gunner smokes a pipe while overlooking the Volga from his
Maschinengewehrloch (machine gun hole) . This type of simple circular
fighting position was also known as a Russisches Loch or Ruslock
(Russian hole). He is armed with an MG-34 and a 9mm P-38 pistol
(unseen) habitually carried in a holster on the lett front of his
Koppel (belt), but what the Landser called a Bauchbinde (bellyband).
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