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Unread 03-04-2005, 05:30 PM   #36
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John,

The Luftwaffe zuegampt has been seen on holsters already! I have one!
It is a P38 holster however, and not a Luger holster, but is still a Luftzuegampt!
Also the Luftzuegampt is found on other period firearms with Luftwaffe markings. I'll just use the K98 as an example, because these are most often encountered. The K98 with the "eagle/L" marking on the stock are Luftwaffe rifles correct? Some of these K98s with the "eagle/L" will have a "luftzuegampt" located on the reciever. This denotes that the rifle was re-worked, or repaired by a Luftwaffe ordanance depot.

As for the depot at Kustrin, I'm not sure where you got your information, but I would suggest re-checking it. The information I recieved from Hugh Brock, is that this depot was very large, with machinery and equiptment to overhaul many of the Luftwaffe rifles, pistols, machine guns, and cannons!

The thread was started at- www.wehrmacht-awards.com. It is an old thread under the firearms forum, and is titled, "By request: The Ku luger", and was started by me. I showed a Ku luger on that thread, and also showed the same marking found on my P38 holster, as well as Luftwaffe marked K98s.

As for the Krieghoff production. I said thier produciton was practically nothing, because total production of lugers from Krieghoff in 1942 was about 300! That's nothing! You can't tell me that 300 lugers is enough to meet the Luftwaffes' needs! Krieghoff could never produce enough lugers!

I don't mean to argue with you, as I've been through this topic too many times to count. I feel that my conclusion that we've come up with is 95% justified. I know it's not 100%, but we may never get it 100% correct.
Until I hear a better reason, that makes more sense, I will stick with it. If you analize it, it does actually make sense.

Matt
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