Luger Cache w/US GIs during WWII

tudorbug · 04-06-2007, 10:37 AM

I was in Saudi Arabia '73-'74 stationed at Tabuk in the northeast, not far from the Jordania border, where I was a maintenance advisor to a Saudi Army Brigade maintenane effort.

I visited a colleague in Taif who was a gun collector and he told me that he had seen a Luger for sale at the local market. We went there the next morning.

When queried, the seller did not produce the Luger; my colleague suggested that perhaps he was nervous about my bearing there. Instead, the seller had a K98 that appeared as if it had never had a bullet slid up the loading ramp. I was then not interested and took no details. Now, I wish I had been!

David

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04-06-2007, 10:37 AM	#11
tudorbug Lifer Lifetime Forum Patron Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Georgia Posts: 387 Thanks: 0 Thanked 40 Times in 29 Posts	I was in Saudi Arabia '73-'74 stationed at Tabuk in the northeast, not far from the Jordania border, where I was a maintenance advisor to a Saudi Army Brigade maintenane effort. I visited a colleague in Taif who was a gun collector and he told me that he had seen a Luger for sale at the local market. We went there the next morning. When queried, the seller did not produce the Luger; my colleague suggested that perhaps he was nervous about my bearing there. Instead, the seller had a K98 that appeared as if it had never had a bullet slid up the loading ramp. I was then not interested and took no details. Now, I wish I had been! David