The version in my day was that an AK could fire a round of 5.56.
In all my reading about the Wehrmacht I have never seen a picture of their rifle grenade. Like ours, a Great Idea That Didn't Work. The soldier was supposed to fire it only with blank ammo, you know that somebody tried it with live ammo-more than once.
The Germans had months-years-to prepare for the Normandy Invasion, never read any accounts of units running out of ammunition.
The "Ost" battalions were "static defense" units, little if any transport, assigned to coastal positions. By 1943 the TO&E of German divisions on the Eastern Front was a division of about 10,000 with about 20% "Hiwis" filling as many non-combatant roles as possible.
In all my reading about the Wehrmacht I have never seen a picture of their rifle grenade. Like ours, a Great Idea That Didn't Work. The soldier was supposed to fire it only with blank ammo, you know that somebody tried it with live ammo-more than once.
The Germans had months-years-to prepare for the Normandy Invasion, never read any accounts of units running out of ammunition.
The "Ost" battalions were "static defense" units, little if any transport, assigned to coastal positions. By 1943 the TO&E of German divisions on the Eastern Front was a division of about 10,000 with about 20% "Hiwis" filling as many non-combatant roles as possible.