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{{Infobox weapon
| name               = Walther P38
| image              = Walther P38 (6971798779).jpg
| image_size         = 300px
| caption            = Spreewerk manufactured Walther P38
| origin             = Nazi Germany
| type               = [[Semi-automatic pistol]]
| is_ranged          = yes
| service            = 1939–1945 (Nazi Germany) <br /> 1949–present (other countries)
| used_by            = See ''[[#Users|Users]]''
| wars               = {{ubl|[[World War II]]<ref name="bishop1998"/>|[[First Indochina War]]<ref name="Algeria"/>|[[Algerian War]]<ref name="Algeria">{{cite magazine |language=fr |magazine=[[Gazette des Armes]] |issue=220 |date=March 1992 |title=L'armement français en A.F.N. |pages=12–16 |url=http://fr.1001mags.com/parution/gazette-des-armes/numero-220-mars-1992/page-12-13-texte-integral |access-date=8 October 2018 |archive-date=8 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181008174853/http://fr.1001mags.com/parution/gazette-des-armes/numero-220-mars-1992/page-12-13-texte-integral |url-status=dead }}</ref>|[[Portuguese Colonial War]]|[[Rhodesian Bush War]]|[[Vietnam War]] (limited)<ref name="wwiiafterwwii"/>|[[The Troubles]]|[[1958 Lebanon crisis]]<ref name="Walter" />|[[Lebanese Civil War]]<ref name="Walter" />|[[War in Afghanistan (2001–present)|War in Afghanistan]]|[[Iraqi Civil War (2014–2017)]] (P1)}}
| designer           = 
| design_date        = 1938
| manufacturer       = [[Walther arms|Carl Walther Waffenfabrik]], [[Mauser|Mauser Werke]], [[Spreewerk]], [[Manurhin]]
| unit_cost          = {{Reichsmark|30|link=yes}} (1943)<br />{{Inflation|DE|30|1943|r=-1|fmt=eq|cursign=€}}
| production_date    = Walther P38 1939–1945<br />Pistole P1 1957–2000
| number             = c. 1,000,000<ref name="bishop1998">{{cite book |first=David |last=Donald |editor-last=Bishop |editor-first=Chris |date=1998 |title=Guns in Combat |location=Edison, NJ |publisher=Chartwell Books |isbn=0-7858-0844-2}}</ref>
| variants           = [[Walther HP|HP]], P1, P38K, P38 SD, P4
| length             = {{convert|216|mm|ftin|abbr=on}}
| part_length        = {{convert|125|mm|ftin|abbr=on}}
| height             = {{convert|140|mm|ftin|abbr=on}}
| width              = {{convert|36|mm|ftin|abbr=on}}
| cartridge          = [[9×19mm Parabellum]]
| action             = [[Recoil operation|Short recoil]], hinged locking piece assisted [[breechblock]]
| rate               = 116 rpm (semi-automatic)
| velocity           = {{convert|1,050|ft/s|m/s|abbr=on}}<ref name="LudekeA">{{cite book |last=Ludeke |first=Alexander |date=2007 |title=Weapons of World War II |location=New York City |publisher=Parragon Books |isbn=978-1-40549-489-2}}</ref>{{full citation needed |date=June 2021}}
| range              = Sights set for {{convert|50|m|yd}}<ref name="LudekeA"/>
| max_range          = 
| feed               = 8-round [[Magazine (firearm)|magazine]]
| sights             = [[Iron sight|Rear notch and front blade post]]
| weight             = {{Convert|960|g|oz|abbr=unit}} (empty)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.shootingtimes.com/editorial/handgun_reviews_the_walther_p-38_102510/99823 |title=The Walther P-38 |last1=Scarlata |first1=Paul |date=October 25, 2010 |website=[[Shooting Times]]}}</ref>
}}

The '''Walther P38''' (originally written '''Walther P.38''') is a [[9×19mm Parabellum|9 mm]] [[semi-automatic pistol]] that was developed by [[Carl Walther GmbH]] as the [[service pistol]] of the [[Wehrmacht]] at the beginning of [[World War II]]. It was intended to replace the comparatively complex and expensive to produce [[Luger pistol|Luger P08]]. Moving the production lines to the more easily mass producible P38 once World War II started took longer than expected, leading to the P08 remaining in production until September 1942 and copies remained in service until the end of the war.<ref>{{cite book|last=Grant|first=Neil|title=The Luger|date=20 Sep 2018|publisher=Osprey Publishing|isbn=9781472819734|series=Weapon 64 |page=51}}</ref>

==Development==
As the previous service pistol, the Luger P08, was expensive to produce, Germany started to look for a replacement as early as 1927, settling on the Walther P38 in 1938, which offered similar performance to the Luger P08 but took almost half the time to produce.{{sfn|Grant|2018|p=50}} The first design was submitted to the [[German Army (1935–1945)|German Army]] and featured a locked breech and a hidden hammer but the Army requested that it should be redesigned with an external hammer.

The P38 concept was accepted by the German military in 1938 but production of prototype ("Test") pistols did not begin until late 1939. Walther began manufacture at their plant in [[Zella-Mehlis]] and produced three series of "Test" pistols, designated by a "0" prefix to the serial number. The third series pistols solved the problems for the German Army and mass production began in mid-1940, using Walther's military production identification code "480".{{Citation needed|date=September 2022}}

Several experimental versions were later created in [[.45 ACP]], and [[.38 Super]] but these were never mass-produced. In addition to the  9×19mm Parabellum version, some [[7.65×21mm Parabellum]] and some [[.22 Long Rifle]] versions were also manufactured and sold.

==Design details==
[[File:Walther P38 cutaway.jpg|thumb|left|P38 cut-away model]]

The P.38 is a semi-automatic pistol design, which introduced technical features used today in commercial and military semi-automatic pistols, including the [[Beretta 92FS]] and its [[M9 pistol|M9]] sub-variant.

The P38 was the first locked-breech pistol to use a [[Trigger (firearms)#Double-action/single-action|double-action/single-action (DA/SA) trigger]] (the earlier double-action [[Walther PPK#PPK/S|PPK]] was an unlocked [[blowback (arms)|blowback]] design, but the more powerful [[9×19mm Parabellum]] round used in the P38 needed a locked breech design). The shooter could chamber a round, use the safety-[[Decocker#Decocker|decocking]] lever to lower the hammer without firing the round, and carry the weapon with a round chambered.  The lever can stay on "safe", or if returned to "fire", the weapon remains safely "ready" with a long, double-action trigger pull for the first shot. Pulling the trigger cocks the hammer before firing the first shot with double-action operation. The firing mechanism extracts and ejects the first spent round, cocks the hammer, and chambers a fresh round for single-action operation with each subsequent shot; all features found in many modern [[handguns]]. Besides a DA/SA trigger design similar to that of the earlier [[Walther PPK]]s the P38 features a visible and tactile [[loaded chamber indicator]] in the form of a metal rod that protrudes from the rear of the slide when a round is chambered.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hogg |first1=Ian V. |author-link1=Ian V. Hogg |last2=Weeks |first2=John S. |name-list-style=amp |date=1972 |title=Military Small Arms of the 20th Century |location=Iola, WI |publisher=Krause Publications |isbn=978-0-87341-824-9}}</ref>

[[File:1943 Mauser P.38 Locking Block.jpg|thumb|left|1943 Mauser P.38 barrel showing locking block design]]
[[File:P38 montage.jpg|thumb|P38 made by [[Mauser]], coded "byf 44" with matching [[presstoff]] and leather holster]]

The moving-barrel mechanism is actuated by a wedge-shaped hinged locking piece underneath the breech. When the pistol is fired, the barrel and slide recoil together, until the hinged locking piece drives down, disengaging the slide and arresting further rearward movement of the barrel. The slide continues its rearward movement on the frame, ejecting the spent case and cocking the hammer before reaching the end of travel. Unlike most autopistols which eject empty cases to the right, the Walther P38 ejects empty cases to the left. Two recoil springs on either side of the frame and below the slide, having been compressed by the slide's rearward movement, drive the slide forward, stripping a new round from the magazine, driving it into the breech and re-engaging the barrel; ending its return travel with a fresh round chambered, hammer cocked and ready to repeat the process. The hinged locking piece assisted breechblock design provides good accuracy due to the in-line travel of the barrel and slide.

Initial production P38 pistols were fitted with walnut grips, but these were later supplanted by [[Bakelite]] grips.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://p38.50webs.com/history.html |title=P38 - 9mm semi-automatic pistol - history & development of the weapon |website=Hellcat Patriots' Rifle Club |access-date=2009-04-16 |archive-date=27 April 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090427010346/http://p38.50webs.com/history.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> Sheet metal grips were used for a time on pistols produced in France after the war, being called "Gray Ghosts" by collectors on the account of their distinctive parkerizing and sheet metal grips. Post war P1 grips were made of black colored plastic.

==Variants==
The Walther P.38 was in production from 1939 to 1945.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.p38forum.com/P38ProductionDates.pdf |title=Walther Military P.38 Production Chart |website=P38forum.com}}</ref> Initial development of the pistol took place 1937–1939, culminating in the first Model HP or Heerespistole ("army pistol"), which had several variants as engineering changes were made. Early production included a Swedish contract.  The designation P.38 indicates Wehrmacht adoption in 1938, although the exact date is unknown.  The transition from HP to the mechanically-identical P.38-marked pistols took place 1939–1940.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Buxton |first1=Warren H. |title=The P.38 Pistol, Vol. 1 |date=1978 |publisher=Taylor Publishing Company |location=Dallas, TX |isbn=0-87833-303-7 |page=73}}</ref> Sweden bought the Walther HP in 1939.<ref name="auto">{{Cite web |url=http://www.gotavapen.se/gota/artiklar/swedishpistols/swedpist_g.htm |title=Swedish military pistols and revolvers from 1863-1988: an overview |first=O. |last=Janson |website=Göta Vapenhistoriska Sällskap |access-date=2021-04-06}}</ref>

During WWII, the P.38 was produced by Walther, Mauser, and Spreewerk.  To conceal manufacturer identities, each wartime manufacturer used [[German ordnance codes|a letter code]]: ac (Walther); byf (Mauser), and cyq (Spreewerk), followed by the date (e.g.: ac44: Walther 1944 production).  Spreewerk did not mark production dates. Pistols were produced in blocks of 10,000 consecutively numbered pistols, with each block having a consecutive letter suffix, to conceal production volume.  1,277,680 P.38s were produced during WWII: 617,585 by Walther in Zella-Mehlis; 372,875 by Mauser in Oberndorf; 287,220 by Spreewerk Grottau.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Krutzek |first1=Alexander |title=The P.38 Pistol, Germany's Famous Service Pistol in Detail |date=2017 |publisher=RWM-Verlag |location=Eltville, Germany |isbn=978-0-9727815-9-6 |pages=54–55}}</ref> Late in the war,{{Ambiguous |date=April 2021}} the Spreewerk (cyq) die broke.  Subsequent pistols appear to be marked "cvq" due to the broken die.  About 31,400 pistols are so marked. Spreewerk production ended April 1945.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Balcar |first1=Jan |title=The P.38 Pistol: Spreewerk Production |date=2009 |publisher=Ron Clarin |isbn=978-1-60458-364-9 |location=Collierville, TN |pages=115–116}}</ref>

From 1945 to 1946, several thousands of pistols were assembled for the French armed forces<ref name="Algeria"/>(frequently dubbed "grey ghosts" because of parkerized finish and grey sheet metal grips). Only after 1957 was the P38 again produced for the German military.  West Germany desired to rebuild its military so that it could shoulder some of the burden for its own defense.  Walther retooled for new P38 production since no military firearms production had occurred in West Germany since the end of the war, knowing that the military would again seek Walther firearms.  When the ''[[Bundeswehr]]'' announced it wanted the P38 for its official service pistol, Walther readily resumed P38 production within just two years, using wartime pistols as models and new engineering drawings and machine tools.  The first of the new P38s were delivered to the West German military in June 1957, some 17 years and two months after the pistol had initially seen action in World War II, and from 1957 to 1963 the P38 was again the standard sidearm.

===P1===
[[File:Pistole P1 noBG.jpg|thumb|The P1 used by the Bundeswehr]]
In late 1963 the postwar military model P1 was adopted for use by the West German military, identifiable by the P1 stamping on the slide. The postwar pistols, whether marked as P38 or P1, have an [[aluminium]] frame rather than the steel frame of the original design. Starting in June 1975, the aluminum frame was reinforced with a hex bolt above the trigger guard, and a slightly modified, stronger slide design was introduced. During the 1990s the German military started replacing the P1 with the [[P8 pistol]] and finally phased out the P1 in 2004.

[[File:Walther-P1.jpg|thumb|Walther P1 (1980) frame was reinforced with a hex bolt, and stronger "fat" slide.]]
[[File:Walther P1 rollmarks.jpg|thumb|Walther P1 rollmarks]]

===P4===
An improved version of the P38, the Walther P4, was developed in the late 1970s and was adopted by the police forces of South Africa, [[Rhineland-Palatinate]] and [[Baden-Württemberg]].

===P5===
{{main|Walther P5}}
Improved version with a closed slide.

===Clones===
Turkish clones made by Kirrikale.<ref name="Walter"/>

==Users==
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* {{ALG}}<ref>{{cite web |url=http://sites.google.com:80/site/worldinventory/wiw_af_algeria |title=Algeria |year=2015 |website=World Infantry Weapons |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161124203856/http://sites.google.com:80/site/worldinventory/wiw_af_algeria |archive-date=24 November 2016}}</ref>
* {{flag|Chad}}: P1 variant.<ref name="jones2009"/>
* {{flag|Chile}}: [[Chilean Army]].<ref name="diez2000">{{cite book |last=Diez |first=Octavio |date=2000 |title=Hand Guns |series=Encyclopaedia of Armament and Technology |location=Barcelona |publisher=Lema Publications |isbn=84-8463-013-7}} Translated from the Spanish.</ref>
* {{flag|Iraq}}: [[Kurdistan Region]] received 8,000 P1 pistols in 2014<ref name='SAS 2015'>{{cite book |url=http://www.smallarmssurvey.org/fileadmin/docs/A-Yearbook/2015/eng/Small-Arms-Survey-2015-Highlights-EN.pdf |title=Small Arms Survey 2015: Weapons and the World |chapter-url=http://www.smallarmssurvey.org/fileadmin/docs/A-Yearbook/2015/eng/Small-Arms-Survey-2015-Chapter-04-EN.pdf |chapter=Trade Update: After the 'Arab Spring' |author=Small Arms Survey |author-link=Small Arms Survey |year=2015 |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |ref={{harvid|Small Arms Survey 2015}} |page=110 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150701142546/http://www.smallarmssurvey.org/fileadmin/docs/A-Yearbook/2015/eng/Small-Arms-Survey-2015-Highlights-EN.pdf |archive-date=July 1, 2015}}</ref>
* {{flag|North Macedonia}}: P1 variant.<ref name="jones2009"/>
* {{flag|Mozambique}}<ref name="jones2009"/>
* {{flag|South Africa|1994}}: Standard sidearm of SA Police.<ref>{{cite book |title=Modern African Wars (3): South-West Africa |first=Heitman |last=Helmoed-Romer |year=1991 |publisher=Osprey Publishing |isbn=185532122X}}</ref>
* {{flag|Thailand}}: Used by [[Royal Thai Police]] as Type 96 Pistol (ปืนพกแบบ 96, ปพ.96).<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://sanpawut.police.go.th/New%20folder/gun/P%2038.html | title=ปืนพก แบบ 96 ขนาด 9 มม. | language=th | trans-title=Model 96 9mm pistol | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220705201721/https://sanpawut.police.go.th/New%20folder/gun/P%2038.html | archive-date=2022-07-05}}</ref>
* {{flag|Uruguay}}<ref name="gander1995">{{cite book |editor1-last=Gander |editor1-first=Terry J. |editor2-last=Hogg |editor2-first=Ian V. |date=1995 |title=Jane's Infantry Weapons 1995/1996 |edition=21st |location=Coulsdon |publisher=Jane's Information Group |isbn=978-0-7106-1241-0}}</ref>

===Former===

* {{AFG}}: [[Afghan National Police]] received 10,000 P1s after the [[United States invasion of Afghanistan|fall of the Taliban]]<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P4N9AgAAQBAJ |title=Afghanistan, Arms and Conflict: Armed Groups, Disarmament and Security in a Post-War Society |first1=Michael Vinai |last1=Bhatia |first2=Mark |last2=Sedra |publisher=[[Routledge]] |editor=Small Arms Survey |editor-link=Small Arms Survey |page=170 |year=2008 |isbn=978-0-415-45308-0}}</ref>
* {{flag|Austria}}<ref name="jones2009">{{cite book |editor1-last=Jones |editor1-first=Richard D. |editor2-last=Ness |editor2-first=Leland S. |date=2009 |title=Jane's Infantry Weapons 2009/2010 |edition=35th |location=Coulsdon |publisher=Jane's Information Group |isbn=978-0-7106-2869-5}}</ref>
* {{flag|Bulgaria}}: Supplied by Germany during World War II<ref>{{Cite web |title=BULGARIAN SMALL ARMS OF WORLD WAR II, PART I: SOME OLD AND SOME NEW. - Free Online Library |url=https://www.thefreelibrary.com/BULGARIAN+SMALL+ARMS+OF+WORLD+WAR+II,+PART+I:+SOME+OLD+AND+SOME+NEW.-a0583655275 |access-date=2022-12-19 |website=www.thefreelibrary.com}}</ref>
* {{flag|Independent State of Croatia}}<ref name="Scarlata">{{cite web |url=https://www.firearmsnews.com/editorial/evolution-modern-military-pistol/78237 |title=Evolution of the Modern Military Pistol |last=Scarlata |first=Paul |date=10 March 2013 |website=Firearms News}}</ref>
* {{flag|East Germany}}: Used primarily by police and paramilitary.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://p-38.info/eg/index.htm |title=Post World War II P.38s of East Germany |website=P-38.info}}</ref>
* {{flag|Finland}}: Finnish [[UN peacekeeping forces]], P1 variant.<ref name="armafennicaII">{{cite book |last=Hyytinen |first=Timo |date=2002 |title=Arma Fennica 2, Sotilasaseet |trans-title=Finnish firearms 2, Military weapons |language=fi |location=Jyväskylä |publisher=[[Gummerus|Gummerus Oy, Inc.]] |isbn=951-99887-0-X}}</ref>
* {{flag|France}}: Replaced by the mid-1950s.<ref name="bishop1998"/>
* {{flag|Germany}}: P1 variant.<ref name="jones2009"/>
* {{flagcountry|Kingdom of Hungary (1920–46)}}<ref name="Scarlata"/>
* {{flag|Italy|1861}}<ref name="Scarlata"/>
* {{flag|Kazakhstan}} – used as a service pistol in [[private security companies]] at least up to 2007.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://continent-online.com/Document/?doc_id=30083989 |title=Постановление Правительства Республики Казахстан № 1305 от 28 декабря 2006 года "Об утверждении Государственного кадастра гражданского и служебного оружия и патронов к нему на 2007 год" |trans-title=Decree of the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan No. 1305 dated December 28, 2006 "On approval of the State Cadastre of civilian and service weapons and cartridges for them for 2007" |website=Континент |language=ru}}</ref>
* {{flag|Lebanon}}: Used in small numbers by the [[Lebanese Armed Forces|Lebanese Army]] and later by some Lebanese militias during the [[1958 Lebanon crisis]] and the [[Lebanese Civil War]] (1975–1990).<ref name="Walter">{{cite book |last1=Walter |first1=John |date=2022 |title=Walther Pistols – PP, PPK and P 38 |publisher=Osprey Publishing |isbn=9781472850843 |page=71}}</ref><ref name="jones2009"/>
* {{flag|Nazi Germany}}<ref name="diez2000"/>
* {{flag|North Vietnam}}<ref name="wwiiafterwwii">{{cite web |url=https://wwiiafterwwii.wordpress.com/2015/07/10/wwii-german-weapons-during-the-vietnam-war/ |title=WWII German weapons during the Vietnam War |date=10 July 2015 |website=WWII After WWII}}</ref>
* {{flag|Norway}}: [[Norwegian Armed Forces]].<ref name="marchington2004">{{cite book |last=Marchington |first=James |date=2004 |title=The Encyclopedia of Handheld Weapons |location=Miami, FL |publisher=Lewis International |isbn=1-930983-14-X}}</ref> Replaced by the [[Glock|P80]] in 1985<ref>{{cite web |url=http://forsvaret.no/om-forsvaret/utstyrsfakta/vapen/Sider/p80.aspx |title=P80 – halvautomatisk pistol |website=[[Norwegian Armed Forces|Forsvaret]] |language=no |access-date=May 28, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140810181833/http://forsvaret.no/om-forsvaret/utstyrsfakta/vapen/Sider/p80.aspx |archive-date=2014-08-10}}</ref>
* {{flag|Portugal}}: Used by [[Portuguese Army]] until 2019, when was replaced by the [[Glock|Glock 17 Gen 5]].<ref name="diez2000"/><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://special-ops.org/52138/portuguese-army-adopts-glock-17-gen5-coyote/ |title=Portuguese Army Adopts Glock 17 Gen5 Coyote |last=Ferreira |first=Bryan |date=March 31, 2022 |website=Spec Ops Magazine |language=en-US |access-date=2019-11-12}}</ref>
* {{flag|Rhodesia}}: Standard sidearm of the [[British South Africa Police|BSAP]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Locke & Cooke |title=Fighting Vehicles and Weapons of Rhodesia, 1965-80 |year=1995 |pages=108–109}}</ref>
* {{flag|Sweden}}: [[Walther HP|HP]] variant.<ref name="pistole38.nl">{{cite web |url=http://www.pistole38.nl/P38-variations/P38-variations.html |title=P.38 variations |last=Reichert |first=Orv |work=Pistole38.nl |access-date=November 23, 2012 |archive-date=23 July 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120723195736/http://www.pistole38.nl/P38-variations/P38-variations.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> The Swedish military designation was "pistol m/39". Sweden also used P38s that were confiscated from the German military during World War II.<ref name="auto"/>
* {{Flag|United States}}: Used by US Army Special Forces assigned to [[Detachment A|Detachment 'A', Berlin]] during the Cold War.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.americanrifleman.org/content/cold-war-warriors-the-men-and-guns-of-special-forces-berlin/ |title=Cold War Warriors—The Men and Guns of Special Forces Berlin |last=Stejskal |first=James |date=December 2017 |magazine=[[American Rifleman]]}}</ref>
* {{flag|West Germany}}<ref name="diez2000"/>
**[[West Berlin Police]] Manurhin manufactured P38s from France due to treaty restrictions.<ref name=combathandgunsp38>{{cite book |last=Nonte |first=George |author-link= |date=1980 |title=Combat Handguns |location= |publisher=Stackpole Books |page=91-92 |isbn=0811704092}} </ref>
**[[Bundesgrenzschutz]]<ref name=combathandgunsp38/>
**[[Bereitschaftspolizei]]<ref name=combathandgunsp38/>
* {{flagicon image|Yugoslav Partisans flag (1942-1945).svg}} [[Yugoslav Partisans]]<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.thefreelibrary.com/YUGOSLAV+PART+II%3A+WORLD+WAR+II+SMALL+ARMS%3A+AN+ASSORTMENT+OF+SMALL...-a0510936519 |title=Yugoslav Part II: World War II small arms: an assortment of small arms from friends and foe alike |first=Paul |last=Scarlata |magazine=Firearms News |date=1 October 2017 |via=TheFreeLibrary}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
{{Commons category}}
* [http://www.pistole38.nl/ Pistole38.nl]—Everything about the P-38
* [https://modernfirearms.net/en/handguns/handguns-en/germany-semi-automatic-pistols/walther-p38-eng/ P38 Walther] at Modern Firearms
* [http://www.bimbel.de/artikel/artikel-11.html Die Pistole P1] {{In lang|de}}

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