Band of Brothers Lugers-The Movie
 

Watching Day of Days, the Omaha Beach landing. Found some pics from the show. http://www.imfdb.org/index.php/Band_...hers#Luger_P08
Is the Toggle code in the last picture a Mauser Banner or DWM Stamping?
I am thinking I see a strawed ejector too?

I vote for DWM.

Neil

Ted,

I think it's DWM. You can almost make out a date on the chamber.

Ron

for a few minutes I thought it might have have been a Kreighoff toggle, but after much magnification, I have to say DWM.

Did any of you notice that the toggle is not in battery? The knobs are slightly raised, and you can see what appears to be the base of the cartridge that is in the chamber. The view on the top of the toggle is too direct to see if the extractor is up...

You guys would make good detectives!

...and it's a left handed Luger... :D

As for the toggle, I'm told that this is one way to get a Luger to shoot blanks. By placing a stud under the toggle elbow, the toggle has the initial "break", which allows blank firing reliably. This would also expose the cartridge base.

Supposedly they gave Gary Cooper a Luger in the Sgt. York movie because they were not able to make a 1911 cycle with blanks at the time.

H

Most .45 autos you see in the movies are actually 9mm guns, which are easier to blank. They also open up the last inch of barrel to still give the gun that .45 muzzle.

If you recall the opening title scenes of the Magnum PI series, Tom Selleck is shown shoving home a magazine into his pistol. The telltale creases of a 9mm 1911 magazine can clearly be seen.