Luger Cache w/US GIs during WWII

[Ron Smith]

My dad served in the Pacific, but one of my friends dad was with Patton's armor. He was the driver of a White half-track with a mounted 105mm howitzer (like the one in Kelly's Heros). We used to look at his photos. One was of the crew sitting around the half- track in front of a German Tiger that they had just knocked out with a direct hit in the engine. The name painted on the half-track was "The Bouncin' Bitch".

He told us that Lugers were fairly common. And that most of them wanted to find either a P.38 or P.35 Hi-Power , because the magazines were easier to load.