Stockholm This has some nice pis of Stockholm on the cover...just an easy thing to peek at to get the idea of what it looks like!
"Your VIS (sometimes called a 'Radom') is a very well designed handgun based on the John M. Browning M1911. It was the standard pistol of the Polish Military prior to WWII. The one's manufactured for the Polish Army from 1935 to 1939, had a much higher quality than the later one's made for the Nazis.
"When the Nazis invaded Poland in September, 1939, they took over the manufacture of the VIS and issued it as a secondary firearm for the Nazi Army.
"Yours bears a Waffenampt (German acceptance mark), so it was made sometime between late 1939 and early 1945.
"The caliber is standard 9mm (Luger/Parabellum)."
(Bold added.)
Another interesting page on the Radom from the same site.
From Wikipedia:
“Vis (Polish designation pistolet wz. 35 Vis, German designation 9 mm Pistole 35(p), often called incorrectly Radom in English sources) is a 9 mm caliber, single-action, semi-automatic pistol. Originally designed by Piotr Wilniewczyc and Jan Skrzypiński in 1930 at the Fabryka Broni (Weapon Factory) Łucznik Arms Factory in Radom under Director Kazimierz Ołdakowski, it was adopted in 1935 as the standard handgun of the Polish Army. Considered by many to be one of the finest handguns ever produced, it is highly prized among collectors of firearms.”
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I needed to understand the geographic proximity of Sweden and Poland:
Relative locations of Sweden and Poland.
A map showing driving distance between a couple of cities, one in Poland and one in Sweden.
I haven't played with this to figure out if ones more interesting to our story might be calculated.
Okay, entering Warsaw and Stockholm yields a distance of 580 miles (but not certain what that means across the water).
