Pre World War II Export and Combat Employment
About 100,000 vz. 24 rifles were bought by the Bolivian army which employed them, along with other Mauser rifle types, during the Chaco War.
The vz. 24 next saw action in the Spanish Civil War by the Catalan Republican troops. About 40,000 vz. 24s were bought by the Soviet Union to Czechoslovakia to be sent to the Spanish Civil War. The vz. 24s were shipped from Murmansk on 1 March 1938, along with other material (T-26 tanks and 76mm French field artillery). The French freighter Gravelines, which carried all the material, managed to get the weapons to Bordeaux from where they were sent by land across the border, to Catalunya. Despite arriving late in the war, the vz. 24 was used in Catalunya and the Mediterranean coast of the Iberian Peninsula and saw action in the Battle of the Ebro, where the vz. 24 showed good results despite the fascist victory. After the defeat of the Second Spanish Republic the dictator Francisco Franco kept the rifles that survived the battle until 1959, when they were sold to Interarms.
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