In later years (sometime in the 1970's), Walther incorporated several important design improvements into the P.1 including the infamous steel hex-pin through the frame to lessen the impact of the locking-block on the return of the slide into battery. Apart from that one notable exception, ALL post-war Walther P.38 pistols have the same aluminum frame as the P.1. Well, only those made through 1945 under the Third Reich and the relative handful assembled by the French immediately after the war using captured German parts. You'll hear all over the place how P.38's supposedly all have steel frames. All post-war P.38's are more or less identical as far as I know to the P.1, including an alloy ("Duraluminum") frame. The post-war P.38 and P.1 designations were largely superficial and used to designate pistols for the police forces and Bundeswehr (the armed forces), respectively.
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