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Unread 05-21-2012, 07:41 AM   #10
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Originally Posted by alanint View Post
Hey, guys...Look closely at the engraved inscription. They misspelled "Goring".


I've seen [read] the English translations of his name spelled both ways [Goering/Goring]; and with and without the umlaut...

Wikipedia spells it Goring...

(And a quick search shows both "Herman" and "Hermann")

I would have been more inclined to believe Goering's WW I carry pistol, whatever it might have been...{Flashback to "Flyboys", where the hero shoots down the Black Falcon with a French revolver)...

So...Since Goering was a WW I "ace", what would he have carried as a sidearm??? In his flying/WW I days...
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