Luger Lanyard

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Rod, The first use of the Luger lanyard I know about was in the trenches of WW1. It was issued to Stosstrupp troops who operated at night in no mans land while on raiding parties into enemy trenches. I can only surmise that a Luger lanyard would have been handy. Dropping your pistol in this environment would mean losing it. It would have been of no use for steadying the pistol while fireing. Shooting in these sorties would not require the steadiness target shooting does. In fact, these troops only used the pistol as a last resort as the muzzle blast would give away their position in the dark of night. They also carried bags of stick grenades and large clubs. Photo's of these shock troops are very interesting.
These same lanyards were also issued to Cavalry and motorcycle troops for the same reason.
Jerry Burney