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No bring back papers that we found. He was a very secretive man and I'm sure some records were lost in storage units and safe deposit boxes he told nobody about.
There are no marks on the grip straps. Alanint is correct the weapon was heavely buffed before plating so more than the date may be missing.
Somehow her Dad was reduced in rank (Deck Courts Martial) just before D-day and was assigned as a gunner on a Higgins boat. We don't know how he ended up onshore, but told his daugher he "took the gun and the hat insigina from a dead Officer.
Next we know he was reassigned to the Pacific theater on a Destroyer Escort. Then he was a POW of the Japanese. Or perhaps the ship steamed for the other ocean, we don't know.
I'm told guys could just stick a pistol in a box address it home and nobody would check.
I opened this can of worms about the Luger, so now I will follow it where it leads. Something like the original story will result.

Patronen, thanks for the link. I'm going to look in to the book if its still available

Alanint, Just a note: Steve McQueen was one of the coolest men ever! If I were to use a star as an avatar my choice would be James Garner