Dick Winter's book, "Beyond Band of Brothers" Describes on page 233-234 how he becama aquainted with a Panzer Major right after the war and how the Major gave Winters his personal sidearm that looked as if it had never been fired. Winters does not identify the type of pistol it was, but states that it was one of the few souveneirs he kept form the war. It's not lilkely that any Panzer crewman used an 8" barreled 9mm pistol as his personal sidearm and most photos show Panzer crewmen with .32 cal pistols because of the space restrictions inside armored vehicles.
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