P-08 v Luger

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Hello John!

Opa Hans and some of his RAD comrades were "stripped" by american troops, shortly after the surrender 1945 in Bavaria.

The GIs were in particular interested about handguns, decorations and dress daggers, "collectors"... :wink:

Opa Hans lost one of his handguns, a Mauser HSC at that time, but these men were happy to survive the war at all, after that they walked home to northern germany, about 900 kilometer, by foot...


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John, regarding the hammer catching on clothing on handguns - Enfield produced a large number of their .38 revolvers as pure double-action, no protruding hammer, specially for tank crew.

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I own a 1981 made Walther P-1
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Re: P.38 v Luger

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Mauser BYF /44 P.38 and a 1943 P.38 Holster

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Re: P-08 v Luger

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A couple of P.38's with correct holsters

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Re: P-08 v Luger

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The novelist Raymond Chandler, himself a veteran of World War One, choose to equip his literary character Philip Marlowe with a Luger in one of his early novels - probably a war booty of 1918!
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