German forces and their allies purchased considerable numbers of the 9x19mm Star Model B, and the Spanish military arming itself with the 9mm Largo (9x23mm) Star Model A. In 1946 the Spanish military adopted an updated version of the Model A, the Model Super in the 9mm Largo.
Stephen Fuller Austin, born in Austinville, Va., November 3, 1793, died December 27, 1836, Often referred to as the Father of Texas, for the hundreds of families he brought into this state due to the relatively poor economic conditions in the United States at the time, Stephen F. Austin was very successful in recruiting families to move to Texas.
Phyllis Austin, an award-winning journalist, was born on 14 Nov. 1941, Austin is a Brunswick resident, and a 1964 graduate of Meredith College, in Raleigh, North Carolina. She moved to Maine in 1969 as an Associate Press reporter.