What bothered me a bit about this old soldier's story was the number of lugers he recalled handling (i.e. 200-300).
Assuming 20-30% of all lugers on the island were actually turned it with surrendering Japanese soldiers, it would indicate that a lot more lugers made there way onto the island to begin with. Maybe the old soldier's story "grew" over the years and not as many lugers were handed over as he recalled...nearly 60 years later...
But I appreciated being able to hear this old soldier's tale, nevertheless...
p.s. The 1928 Dutch KOL contract with DWM was for 3,820 lugers which came out after the Vicker's run of lugers, which occurred in 1922. There were another ~ 1500 lugers issued by DWM to the Dutch Navy in the 1928-1930 timeframe as well. (Source : "The Dutch Luger" book by Martens & deVries, page 245)
Regards,
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