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Unread 10-15-2006, 04:40 PM   #1
Hoyt Weathers
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My brother was in the 101st Airborne in Germany during WW2. He captured a German soldier with a Luger and my brother brought the Luger home. On a recent visit, he showed it to me. On the grip strap is this I.D. B1T.S.3.237

I seek your informed knowledge of the unit from this Luger came.

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Unread 10-15-2006, 06:09 PM   #2
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Hoyt,

Your brother's Luger served in WWI in a medical unit of a logistics support column. B.1.T.S.3.327. would be "Bayerisches, 1 Train-Bataillon, Sanit�¤ts-Kompagnie 3, Waffe Nr. 327"; translates as Bavarian, First Train Battalion, Third Medical Company, weapon #327.

There is a post in Jan Still's Forum, http://luger.gunboards.com/topic.asp...Terms=bavarian, which profiles another Luger marked to such a battallion, along with a list of your brother's gun's unit-mates.

If you can, please find out all the pertinent gun identification--make, serial number, year if present, holdpoen if present, etc., to be able to add to the list. Pictures would be great to see.

Please tell your brother that he has a very cool Luger, and we are glad to know about it.

Also, I'm sure that Ed Tinker would like to know the story of this gun's capture (as would we all).

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Unread 10-15-2006, 09:41 PM   #3
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Thank you Dwight for the detailed information. I have sent a full copy of your reply to my brother. I will see my brother again soon with my trusty Nikon CoolPix 4100 digital camera. Anon, I will post back here with a new topic, perhaps encaptioned "Pics of my brother's Luger". I think I know which shots to take for a full indentification. I will include his e-address if anyone wishes to ask him any questions. I do not know the full history of the capture or any other info about the Luger. I will try to get more info.

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