</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,Geneva">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,Geneva">Originally posted by Roadkill:
<strong>Ref the holster, we've heard of those guys who dumped their pistols in the harbor upon arriving at the US due to custom threats. rk</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,Geneva">A friend of my father's once told him that before leaving Europe he had accumulated a duffle bag full of Leica cameras and accessories and a large number of Lugers, P-38's etc. The word was put out that all bags would be inspected and any soldier caught with more than "X amount" of anything would be courts martialed so he sold, gave away or threw away almost everything. They didn't look at any bags whatsoever!
I've mentioned this particular soldier before. He carried a BAR and was in the first wave at Normandy where he knocked the front sight off. He carried the BAR like that through to the war's end. He said that when something happened it was so quick and close that using the sight wasn't normally required.
He died 2 Oct., this year; age 81.
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