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Hi All,
I do not think this photo has been shown here before, so, enjoy.....:eek:

Take your pick soldier........No rush......:cheers:

I would'nt mind one or two of those crates - Very nice.

Steve.

Maybe Fred Datig started this way...?;)

That picture goes a long way toward explaining the dings on some of my guns. Does anyone know the source of the photo? Notice they are not all lugers. I see some P38s in the second bin and colt style guns (Radoms?) in the farthest bin. KFS

I don't know the source off hand, but it is in a book by Johnson on War Booty brought home.

Ed

I noticed they all have there magazines. I thought the mags were removed and placed in seperate bins, making it uncomon to find most that are matching?
Bob

Nothing to say how many of those mags match the guns they are in...

--Dwight

Wow!

This makes the miracle of a luger matched to its numbered magazine even more of a miracle!

Imagine, wooden cases of lugers to pick thru. A far cry from the "captured from a German officer at such-and-such location, or surrendered by a German officer on such-and-such date.

David

I'm sure there were enterprising "sergants" that shipped lots of crates full of kitchen untensils home!

I feel that the "matched magazines" in many cases may be more a work of "art" than a "miracle".

My Uncle was one of those enterprising Sergeants, actually a Tech Sergeant.

I well recall the day in late 1945 or early 1946 when my father and I joined him at his mother's home in Port Henry, NY where opened crates revealed parallel lines of weapon barrels.

MY cousin still has the 1937 luger that was included.

There is an interesting story that goes on from here involving the automatic weapons that were in the crates which I hesitate to go into since this is not the purpose of this forum.

I still laugh and then I cry when I think of it.

David