Interesting reference pic

MikeP · 03-08-2019, 03:50 PM

I may have posted this a long time ago, but my mind wanders.
I saw it on the net today and grabbed it.
At any rate it appears that a P08 is dangling by a lanyard.

DonVoigt · 03-08-2019, 04:40 PM

Looks like he has some other gear(binoculars) dangling also.
Got to wonder why he needs a rifle and a luger to hand.

Thanks for posting the picture.

Sieger · 03-08-2019, 11:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DonVoigt

Looks like he has some other gear dangling also.
Got to wonder why he needs a rifle and a luger to hand.

Thanks for posting the picture.

Don,

May be he is an NCO.

I can't make out his rank. Can you or someone else here do it?

Sieger

MikeP · 03-09-2019, 03:34 PM

Collar tress indicating NCO.
Also got a map case. Binoculars as well.
Even got a gernade stuffed in a boot.
Think he might be "Holly Wooding" as we used to call it.

Edward Tinker · 03-09-2019, 04:53 PM

Mike, I always said that if I went to war, I'd have a pistol and rifle - of course when I went to Iraq in 2010 - I was the only police trainer contractor who was NOT issued a weapon. We did numerous missions adjacent to the Iranian border. I always made sure the soldiers I was with, KNEW that I used to be an enlisted MP and they always told me if things got hot, to stick my hand out and I'd have a M9 or M4 handed to me

Norme · 03-09-2019, 07:04 PM

For your information, that photo, and another taken just prior to it appear in Jan Still's "Third Reich Lugers" page 42. They were taken on May 23rd, 1940 in the little village of Thulin in Belgium. The wounded French soldier shown in the photo was saved by the German Red Cross.
Norm

lugerholsterrepair · 03-09-2019, 11:17 PM

Think he might be "Holly Wooding" as we used to call it. Mike, He looks positively naked compared to an Airborne Infantry grunt in the Central Highlands!

MikeP · 03-11-2019, 12:49 AM

I carried a pistol and rifle for a while plus a lot of other stuff. We traveled relatively light, but all that weight adds up. Sometimes I had a modified S&W M60, but not always. The .45 and ammo was just needless and bulky. Moving through heavy brush was a chore. From about noon til 2, everybody took a break "POK Time." Similar to a Siesta. We only had 2 Americans and 10-50 CIDG troops on our operations. We'd spend just a week out of camp and then rotate back Team members took turns. I spent 16 months in the same A Camp. A-341. Cambodia on 2 sides a couple kliks.

03-08-2019, 03:50 PM	#1
MikeP User Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: ILL Posts: 686 Thanks: 36 Thanked 452 Times in 198 Posts	Interesting reference pic I may have posted this a long time ago, but my mind wanders. I saw it on the net today and grabbed it. At any rate it appears that a P08 is dangling by a lanyard. Attached Thumbnails

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DonVoigt User Join Date: Apr 2015 Location: near Charlotte NC Posts: 4,681 Thanks: 1,441 Thanked 4,350 Times in 2,040 Posts	Looks like he has some other gear(binoculars) dangling also. Got to wonder why he needs a rifle and a luger to hand. Thanks for posting the picture. __________________ 03man(Don Voigt); Luger student and collector. Looking for DWM side plate: 69 ; Dreyse 1907 pistol K.S. Gendarmerie

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lugerholsterrepair Moderator Lifetime Forum Patron Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Arizona/Colorado Posts: 7,768 Thanks: 4,896 Thanked 3,122 Times in 1,433 Posts	Think he might be "Holly Wooding" as we used to call it. Mike, He looks positively naked compared to an Airborne Infantry grunt in the Central Highlands! __________________ Jerry Burney 11491 S. Guadalupe Drive Yuma AZ 85367-6182 lugerholsterrepair@earthlink.net 928 342-7583 (CO & AZ) Year Round 719 207-3331 (cell) "For those who Fight For It, Life has a flavor the protected will never know."

03-11-2019, 12:49 AM	#8
MikeP User Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: ILL Posts: 686 Thanks: 36 Thanked 452 Times in 198 Posts	I carried a pistol and rifle for a while plus a lot of other stuff. We traveled relatively light, but all that weight adds up. Sometimes I had a modified S&W M60, but not always. The .45 and ammo was just needless and bulky. Moving through heavy brush was a chore. From about noon til 2, everybody took a break "POK Time." Similar to a Siesta. We only had 2 Americans and 10-50 CIDG troops on our operations. We'd spend just a week out of camp and then rotate back Team members took turns. I spent 16 months in the same A Camp. A-341. Cambodia on 2 sides a couple kliks. Attached Thumbnails

03-09-2019, 03:34 PM	#4
MikeP User Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: ILL Posts: 686 Thanks: 36 Thanked 452 Times in 198 Posts	Collar tress indicating NCO. Also got a map case. Binoculars as well. Even got a gernade stuffed in a boot. Think he might be "Holly Wooding" as we used to call it.

03-09-2019, 04:53 PM	#5
Edward Tinker Super Moderator Eternal Lifer LugerForum Patron Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: North of Spokane, WA Posts: 15,926 Thanks: 2,014 Thanked 4,523 Times in 2,089 Posts	Mike, I always said that if I went to war, I'd have a pistol and rifle - of course when I went to Iraq in 2010 - I was the only police trainer contractor who was NOT issued a weapon. We did numerous missions adjacent to the Iranian border. I always made sure the soldiers I was with, KNEW that I used to be an enlisted MP and they always told me if things got hot, to stick my hand out and I'd have a M9 or M4 handed to me

03-09-2019, 07:04 PM	#6
Norme Always A Lifetime Forum Patron Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Colorado Posts: 2,417 Thanks: 226 Thanked 2,603 Times in 933 Posts	For your information, that photo, and another taken just prior to it appear in Jan Still's "Third Reich Lugers" page 42. They were taken on May 23rd, 1940 in the little village of Thulin in Belgium. The wounded French soldier shown in the photo was saved by the German Red Cross. Norm