Plus, Mike, with aid of the OP's pistol has shown the last one, or some of the last examples, could be in B block(or any of the known blocks) since there is no final firing proof on the barrel and slide on the OP's pistol. Obviously they were not all in a series of serial numbers and are spread out. He has seen a few outside my witnessed blocks as York suggests. I discussed this with Charlie Wagner just a couple weeks ago at NGD, he usually sets up beside me there. York says they can be in any of the second blocks. The ones I have seen are just in a,b,j and K blocks. The ones outside these blocks are very uncommon, second J block only 4 examples are known last I heard. The majority are in second K block, second most common is second B block, then second A block. All are in the second block of serial numbers, at least that is traditional wisdom(a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,j and k). The Phosphate guns are all assembled after the factory equipment was moved in late 1944. My problem with York's book was my expectation to get a good collector guide, which it falls a bit short of IMO, but good in other ways. It is good and some great history there with many documents in German partially translated. I have not fully digested it yet so Mike can probably help, or Bob. 1944 production in York's book last night. It is pretty complicated, not every detail is known, and I finally read the section on post Dec.
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