Heroes of the Resistance Reborn

Some readers have questioned the situation of the Thompson submachine gun in Ding Yi's novel. The information is now published as follows:

The Thompson submachine gun is named after the American General Thompson, but it was actually designed by Americans O.V. Pace and TH.Okhoff. It is also called the Chicago Printer.

The early development product of this submachine gun was the M1919 type. Its earliest production model was the M1921 type. Later, the M1923 and M1928 series submachine guns appeared one after another. Among them, the M1928A1 type was successfully developed in 1930 and was equipped with a small amount of the U.S. military during the Second World War.

During the war, it was also used by the British, French and other allied armies.

In 1942, the M1928A1 was improved and the M1 submachine gun was developed and officially equipped with the US military, becoming the first standard submachine gun of the US military. Later, based on the M1, it was improved to the M1A1 submachine gun.

During World War II, the production volume of Thompson submachine guns reached more than 1.4 million units. Production ceased in 1945 and was gradually replaced by the American M3A1 submachine gun.

Compared with other 9mm submachine guns, the .45-caliber Thompson submachine gun is heavier and more difficult to aim. However, the Thompson is still one of the most powerful and reliable submachine guns.

As for when the Thompson submachine gun entered China? There are examples to prove it.

As early as in the historical footage when Mr. Sun Yat-sen attended the opening ceremony of the Whampoa Military Academy, the guard behind him was carrying a large weapon with grips on the front and rear and a drum on his shoulders. It was equipped in China for nearly 60 years.

In 2008, the Thomson submachine gun was more widely used and more famous than the MP18/28 submachine gun that entered China at the same time. The original English text of Thomson is ThomPson. Due to different translations, it is also translated as Thomson and Thompson in China.

Or Thompson. In China, this weapon is often called "Thomson portable machine gun", which is simplified to "Tom gun" or "Tom type".

"Tom" is also one of the earliest imitation submachine guns in China. From 1923 to 1924, the Guangdong Arsenal imitated 39 M1921s. In 1926, the Shanxi Military Craft Practice Factory also began to imitate. In 1927, after it was renamed the Taiyuan Arsenal, a submachine gun factory was established specifically.

, the monthly output reached 900 guns in 1928. After the National Government took over, production was temporarily suspended, and production was resumed from 1932 to 1934, with a maximum monthly output of 250 guns. By 1946, the northwest manufacturing plant was mass-producing the gun. These imitations are collectively known as

"Jin-made portable machine guns" can be divided into two models according to whether there is a small grip on the front. The one with a front grip is longer and heavier. Both use 20-round magazines, and they can also use 50-round drum magazines.

The nominal caliber of these newly-made "Toms" is 11.25 mm, which often makes people mistakenly think that they are different from the calibers of American origin. In fact, the ammunition of the two is common. Another major manufacturer of domestic "Toms" is

Chongqing Weapon Repair Institute produced a total of 4,700 two models from 1928 to 1935, both with a caliber of 7.63 mm, in order to be compatible with shelled ammunition. One of them was imitated from the M1923 type, equipped with a bipod, and could double as a light machine gun.

Used. In addition, Huayin, Chishui and other arsenals have also imitated this gun. The extent of these domestically produced Thompson imitation equipment is far beyond people’s imagination today. They were used by various warlords in the Central Plains War. Before the Anti-Japanese War,

There are even a small number of Thompson submachine guns in the hands of ethnic minority armed forces in the Ganliang area. Compared with the original American guns, these imitations are different in size and details, the parts are generally not universal, and the quality is even more uneven. At the same time, due to wear and tear

Due to reasons such as the source of bullets and the source of bullets, there were not many applications after the middle period of the Anti-Japanese War, and they were replaced by original products provided by the United States. Due to the large number of imported products, although the 90th Ordnance Factory of the Kuomintang successfully copied the "45 submachine gun" based on the M1 type in 1947, in the end

Not mass-produced. As early as the First Civil Revolutionary War, the Red Army began to come into contact with and use "Tom" submachine guns, most of which were domestic imitations. In the early days of the Anti-Japanese War, the Eighth Route Army was also equipped with a small amount of Jin-made submachine guns.

(Note: The above information is taken from multiple online articles and blogs. Due to publishing reasons, the sources cannot be listed one by one. I apologize.)