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Jasta2 · 02-01-2010, 11:32 PM

I take aviation and aviation support units must have had Lugers assigned to them and many pilots flew with a sidearm. I take that sidearm was more of a personal prefrence and not issued to all pilots. Maybe not a Luger at all. Are there any Lugers proved to be connected to a pilot? I now that before the machine guns became geared to the engines, many pilots and observers of both side would take 'pot shots' at each other. A LP-08 might have fit the bill.

I keep flaping but can't get airborne!

Bill

02-01-2010, 11:32 PM	#1
Jasta2 User Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Lakeland, Fl. Posts: 514 Thanks: 349 Thanked 101 Times in 52 Posts	Ever any WW1 Aviation unit marked Lugers found? I take aviation and aviation support units must have had Lugers assigned to them and many pilots flew with a sidearm. I take that sidearm was more of a personal prefrence and not issued to all pilots. Maybe not a Luger at all. Are there any Lugers proved to be connected to a pilot? I now that before the machine guns became geared to the engines, many pilots and observers of both side would take 'pot shots' at each other. A LP-08 might have fit the bill. I keep flaping but can't get airborne! Bill