VERY cool pic. Wonder how they acquired that. Certainly not issued through their own supply lines
Yeah, this photo is one of a series depicting Poles helping out Germans to get out from a colapsed bunker. On this particular one they are looking at stuff they recovered. Imo that soldier is looking at this gun like he's inspecting something that he found rather than looking at his service gun. I suspect that Germans captured this shotgun either from US soldier or Italian partisant. I think I've heard somewhere that US supplied some shotguns to various resistance organisations, but I have to look it up. Regarding the possibilty of this being taken from an American, well shotguns in long barreled and "riot" configurations were provided for rear echelon troops mainly for guard duty I don't think it's likely that some GI would have take privately purchased shotgun with him but who knows? I'll definately do some research on that one.