BYF- 41

Thanks. I know what you mean, I get jelous about things myself. While not a Luger expert, I am fairly knowlegable about firearms in general. I was a Marine Corps Marksmanship Training Unit Instructor, Amourer and have hunted and shot since I was 5. I recognized the BYF marking because of my working with M-98 Mausers.

Actually dads story is not all that dramatic. Shortly after crossing the Sigfried line, he and his squad were sitting in the wood beside a dirt road eating lunch while on patrol. They heard someone speaking German coming down the road so the squad hid and waited to see who it was. When the germans came close my father) told them(in German to stop and put up their hands. The squad disarmed the Germans and my father being the only American who spoke German, asked if any of them had a pistol. The sergeant in charge of the machine gun crew said that he had a new Luger in his pack. Evidently he had earlier stolen it from an officer and had plans of selling it. Dad mailed the new pistol home a few days later. Since dad carried a Luger with him, he figured he would later give the one he carried to his brother and keep the new one for himself. He mailed the new pistol home a few days after he aquired it and totally forgot about it until 1959.