PIATs for the Maquis?
FFI PIAT units
When you do your next WINSPWW2 updates, could we please have a PIAT unit available for the FFI / French resistance?
I note that Yugoslav and Polish guerillas have this weapon in their OBs, and that PIATs are available for both Polish regular (Unit # 073) and paratroop (Unit # 170) units as early as January 1943. I presume that this date is a typo, given that other units must wait until July 1943 – in fact as previously postsed it should be March 1943...
According to Matthew Moss, The PIAT, Osprey Weapon # 74, Osprey Publishing, Bloomsbury, 2020, p. 51, by June 1944 288 PIATS had been dropped to French resistance groups, and later more for a total of about 1,206 [1]. The US Bazooka is listed in the FFI OB, so the PIAT should be too.
[1] citing Michael Foot, SOE in France, Routledge, Abingdon 2006, p. 424.
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