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| Polish troops in winter gear with Browning wz. 28 automatic rifle and Karabinek wz.29 carbines while on exercise, Feb 1935 | Brigadier General Narbut-Luczynski speaking with children during a Polish Army public event, 1939; note Karabin wz. 98 rifle and Browning wz. 28 automatic rifle | Polish soldiers marching, Poland, circa 1939 | German SS soldier with Gewehr 98b sniper rifle, circa 1940s |
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| Polish resistance fighters with various small arms at the intersection of Swietokrzyska and Mazowiecka Streets, Warsaw, Poland, Aug 1944 |
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