WW1 German Property Bring Backs

[DavidJayUden]

Funny story from a Maxim book, where a departing enlisted man tried to make conversation with a young officer who was busily engaged in tagging a Maxim gun at the train depot after the war. When the snooty officer left, the enlisted man determined that the gun had the officer's name and USA home address on it.
So of course he crossed that out and put his name and address on it.
To be rewarded some months later with the arrival of said Maxim gun at his home...Delivered free of charge, of course.
dju

[sheepherder]

My father told me a story a long time ago...He was born in 1906 and was too young for WW I, but some years after the Great War had somehow gotten hold of two Spandau machine guns...The story was about driving around with them on the floor of the back seat of his car (whatever that was) with a blanket thrown over them...There was a punch line, but I've forgotten it long ago...This would all have been before the Sullivan Act...

Simpler times...