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Unread 01-22-2010, 12:18 PM   #8
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Originally Posted by alvin View Post
If it's not because of Internet, it's hard for me to believe so many Lugers survived, and in this excellent shape.
I've read that after the War, the ferry boat line between France and England had so many war-souvenir Lugers lying on the bottom that you could almost walk across them to England...

Probably an exaggeration...but from what I've read, the penalty for a British soldier caught bringing back a war-souvenir pistol was pretty severe...Most decided to chuck them overboard...

We have a Channel Islands member here...maybe we could coax him into telling some war stories...
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