A friend stopped by with his 1917 Navy

sheepherder · 10-21-2017, 01:24 PM

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Originally Posted by gunbugs

A friend stopped by with his 1917 Navy...

I had to laugh at that...Exactly where would anyone be going if they 'stopped by' in Alaska??? Is Alaska on the way to anywhere???

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Originally Posted by Norme

As far as I can tell it looks all original, something of a miracle considering it's source...

He didn't come out and say it was from Prior Lake...

All kidding aside, it is an outstanding looking Navy Luger.

DonVoigt · 10-21-2017, 03:50 PM

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Originally Posted by sheepherder

I had to laugh at that...Exactly where would anyone be going if they 'stopped by' in Alaska??? Is Alaska on the way to anywhere???

He didn't come out and say it was from Prior Lake...

All kidding aside, it is an outstanding looking Navy Luger.

Rich,
he said it was bought from Shattuck.

sheepherder · 10-21-2017, 06:39 PM

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Originally Posted by DonVoigt

Rich,
he said it was bought from Shattuck.

Exactly!

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Originally Posted by gunbugs

Alaska is a BIG place... There are plenty of places to be going to...

Back in '71 I was MedEvaced back to CONUS. Toward the end of the flight, my C9 made a stop in a blacked-out base, at night, with tight security {AP's} to keep us from even knowing the name of the base. (No signs, no unit patches). It had black 4-engine aircraft but I couldn't say what they were. We were led to a building with a long corridor lined on both sides with those old pay phones [rotary dial, coin operated]. We were told any calls we made were free.

Might have been in Alaska...The AirEvac C9 stopped at every island, atoll, and coral reef in the Pacific and ended up in Northern California before dropping down into the real USA (and continuing to the East Coast).

Might have been a base in Alaska...Or the Aleutians...

gunbugs · 10-21-2017, 04:58 PM

[QUOTE=sheepherder;309534]I had to laugh at that...Exactly where would anyone be going if they 'stopped by' in Alaska??? Is Alaska on the way to anywhere???

Alaska is a BIG place... There are plenty of places to be going to. Don't make us mad up here, we'll cut the state in half and make Texas the 3rd largest state...

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10-21-2017, 04:58 PM	#4
gunbugs Lifetime Forum Patron Join Date: Sep 2013 Location: Fairbanks, Alaska. Home of the best moose. Posts: 672 Thanks: 371 Thanked 1,202 Times in 407 Posts	[QUOTE=sheepherder;309534]I had to laugh at that...Exactly where would anyone be going if they 'stopped by' in Alaska??? Is Alaska on the way to anywhere??? Alaska is a BIG place... There are plenty of places to be going to. Don't make us mad up here, we'll cut the state in half and make Texas the 3rd largest state...