Souveniers

With war stories, my dad had a good one which I have told here before, but I would liek to repeat it again.


Dad arrived in Germany shortly after the surrender so he did not see actual combat. During his stay, he met this German girl. Appearently, they must have been close because when he was getting ready to come back to the States, she gave him a Russian Tokarev and Russian Mod. 94 (think this is right) revolver which had belonged to her brother who brought them home froom the Russian Front when he was on leave. Both pistols have holsters with the belt loops modified in the German style. She did not know what had happened to him, but was scared the authorities would find the pistols and she did not want any of her family to go to jail. So dad had the pistols. Along with these 2 pistols, he had 2 P.38s. When he was on ship coming home, the same type announcement was made about guns so he gave up the 2 P.38s and hide the others hoping they would not be found. None of the guys on his ship were searched and he said the officer he gave them to probably kept them for himself.


Marvin C.