[Thor]

My dad was in the Infantry in WWII. Landing on Omaha Beach about a week before his 20th birthday was the start of combat for him. He got a machine gun bullet through the knee going across a hedgerow opening in France. Managed to save the leg. He was in the thick of it like so many others. He had a friend that was a cook and my dad keep bringing him Lugers (16), a few P.38s (4)and a 1922 Browning that he would pick up from the battle field. The cook would hide them in the mess tent and move them for him, when the tent was relocated. Getting on the ship/boat to come home he was told if you dont have papers for your captured weapons it is prison time for you. Well he got rid of 15 of his 16 Lugers and all the P.38s. He did manage to keep the small Browning.
Well, I got to listen to his war stories and the facsination of the Luger pistol was a big part of them. Around 1975 I got the bug bad and managed to get enough money together to buy my first Luger from Ralph Shattuck, well that was the start of a lifelong love of the Luger pistol! Wow, what a piece of machinery the Luger pistol is! Like Clint Eastwood said in FIREFOX "Man.........is this a machine!"