DATA REQUEST for 42 byf Lugers

rpmerrill · 01-02-2012, 05:38 PM

New to the forum. (today) Just wandering around looking for more info on Dad's gun.
byf 42, #1019 script "l", No other numbers.

Briefly what can you tell me about my gun?
In my retirement I am planning to learn more about it and a P-38 also brought home by Dad.

Dad was in the Rangers, 2nd Batallion from 1942, to UK, to Normandy, to VE Day. Silver Star, 2 Bronze Stars and 3 Purple Hearts. At one point in March of '45, he was wounded/injured and temporarily blinded. His men took him forward to a house basement and left him there. (It was a planned forward aid station.) His rifle wasn't much good to him down there and one of the guys gave him this Luger. He took it with him back to the hospital (almost shot a German POW when the ambualnce arrived and he heard orders shouted in German). He's had it ever since. I don't believe it has ever been fired back home in the States. I have his permission papers from late '45 when he sailed back home. Also the papers for the P-38. All matching numbers and in very nice shape. No numbers at all on the clip however. I plan to fire both guns soon and have been advised by a local gunsmith that they are quite fire-able. I doubt that either gun is a high value collectible other than sentimental value.

All comments and advice are welcome.

I have a photo but haven't figured out how to post it yet.

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01-02-2012, 05:38 PM	#10
rpmerrill User Join Date: Jan 2012 Posts: 9 Thanks: 3 Thanked 16 Times in 4 Posts	New to the forum. (today) Just wandering around looking for more info on Dad's gun. byf 42, #1019 script "l", No other numbers. Briefly what can you tell me about my gun? In my retirement I am planning to learn more about it and a P-38 also brought home by Dad. Dad was in the Rangers, 2nd Batallion from 1942, to UK, to Normandy, to VE Day. Silver Star, 2 Bronze Stars and 3 Purple Hearts. At one point in March of '45, he was wounded/injured and temporarily blinded. His men took him forward to a house basement and left him there. (It was a planned forward aid station.) His rifle wasn't much good to him down there and one of the guys gave him this Luger. He took it with him back to the hospital (almost shot a German POW when the ambualnce arrived and he heard orders shouted in German). He's had it ever since. I don't believe it has ever been fired back home in the States. I have his permission papers from late '45 when he sailed back home. Also the papers for the P-38. All matching numbers and in very nice shape. No numbers at all on the clip however. I plan to fire both guns soon and have been advised by a local gunsmith that they are quite fire-able. I doubt that either gun is a high value collectible other than sentimental value. All comments and advice are welcome. I have a photo but haven't figured out how to post it yet.