
http://www.paratrooper-museum.org
This site is a great site, and be sure to investigate the links. I can stay on this site for hours.

In staying with our "Thompson Board" subject, there is information on the M-1928A1, M-1 and the M-1A1 that the paratroopers used in the Normandy invation. You'll have to dig, but I found a "jumpers load" list that showed if a Thompson 45 submachine gun was assigned to you, you had 300 rounds of ammo in 20 round sticks when you jumped. 14 sticks were in pouches and or your pocket and 1 was loaded into your Thompson SMG at the time of the jump.
Check-it-out, I think you'll like it.

Jim
