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lugerholsterrepair · 07-31-2009, 08:49 PM

Doug..I am puzzled by your statement...it would have been a historical impossibility for a GI to have obtained this pistol in Munich in December of 1944.....

How so? The holster came with a commercial PO8 with serial # that indicates the year of manufacture was 1910-1913. Holster is 1911.

This pistol and holster were leftover from the Great War in Germany and ended up in the hands of a Burgomeister in 1944 and subsequently surrendered as war booty to the GI.

I can't see the impossibility of this sequence of events. What am I missing?

Was it that Munich was not captured in 1944 or? Sounds like a simple confusion of dates...I spent 2 years in Viet Nam and I honestly could not come up with any exact dates for the life of me other than general dates of enlistment and discharge.

Jerry Burney

07-31-2009, 08:49 PM	#8
lugerholsterrepair Moderator Lifetime Forum Patron Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Arizona/Colorado Posts: 7,775 Thanks: 4,995 Thanked 3,133 Times in 1,439 Posts	Doug..I am puzzled by your statement...it would have been a historical impossibility for a GI to have obtained this pistol in Munich in December of 1944..... How so? The holster came with a commercial PO8 with serial # that indicates the year of manufacture was 1910-1913. Holster is 1911. This pistol and holster were leftover from the Great War in Germany and ended up in the hands of a Burgomeister in 1944 and subsequently surrendered as war booty to the GI. I can't see the impossibility of this sequence of events. What am I missing? Was it that Munich was not captured in 1944 or? Sounds like a simple confusion of dates...I spent 2 years in Viet Nam and I honestly could not come up with any exact dates for the life of me other than general dates of enlistment and discharge. Jerry Burney __________________ Jerry Burney 11491 S. Guadalupe Drive Yuma AZ 85367-6182 lugerholsterrepair@earthlink.net 928 342-7583 (CO & AZ) Year Round 719 207-3331 (cell) "For those who Fight For It, Life has a flavor the protected will never know."