Dick Cavett on Lugers

pitsword · 01-14-2013, 07:50 PM

Thanks John. Somewhere I remember watching a black and white movie in a theater with mom and dad. Humphrie Bogart was trying to escape on an aeroplane (maybe lockheed electra) on a fog shrouded aerodrome. As the plane taxied, a bad guy ran out with an axe and chopped a hole in the leading edge, the avgas poured out. Then the bad guy whipped out a P08 and shot into the wing to start a fire. Bogart escaped.

My small town barber, who worked out of a kitchen extension, was an mp in ww2. On the wall by the chair was a shadow box with mint P 38 and an m 1 carbine. I can hear his words now about how he captured some Germans and relieved an officer of this P 38..(still in the grease???). He then told of getting permission to carry that P 38 on duty instead of the 1911.

Another best friends father had a shadow box with a sporting rifle and a P08. Looking at it in awe (and lust) so many times. I do believe it was a 41 or 42 byf. So perfect and so beautiful. To this day, some 50 years later I wonder where that beautiful work of art is.

The luger is the apex of weapon beauty. Just sayin, Vince

BTW, MY p 38, 37 s42 and my Rockola m1 are always close at hand.

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01-14-2013, 07:50 PM	#4
pitsword User Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Southern Maine Posts: 459 Thanks: 3,964 Thanked 103 Times in 83 Posts	Thanks John. Somewhere I remember watching a black and white movie in a theater with mom and dad. Humphrie Bogart was trying to escape on an aeroplane (maybe lockheed electra) on a fog shrouded aerodrome. As the plane taxied, a bad guy ran out with an axe and chopped a hole in the leading edge, the avgas poured out. Then the bad guy whipped out a P08 and shot into the wing to start a fire. Bogart escaped. My small town barber, who worked out of a kitchen extension, was an mp in ww2. On the wall by the chair was a shadow box with mint P 38 and an m 1 carbine. I can hear his words now about how he captured some Germans and relieved an officer of this P 38..(still in the grease???). He then told of getting permission to carry that P 38 on duty instead of the 1911. Another best friends father had a shadow box with a sporting rifle and a P08. Looking at it in awe (and lust) so many times. I do believe it was a 41 or 42 byf. So perfect and so beautiful. To this day, some 50 years later I wonder where that beautiful work of art is. The luger is the apex of weapon beauty. Just sayin, Vince BTW, MY p 38, 37 s42 and my Rockola m1 are always close at hand.