Help with info on my grandpas gun?

Doubs · 02-08-2021, 06:23 PM

My neighbor growing up was a veteran of WW2, Company E, 194th Glider Infantry Regiment, 17th Airborne Division. He participated in "Operation Varsity", the assault across the Rhine River. Their LZ was near the city of Wessel.

Long story short, his squad captured a group of German soldiers that were occupying a house on the end of a bridge over a canal. He took a J. P. Sauer & Sohn model 38H pistol and holster from one of them. Was the German soldier an officer? Maybe.... but maybe not. He showed the pistol and holster to me years ago and told me the full story of how he got it but I honestly don't recall if he said the previous owner who was captured alive was an officer or not.

I doubt that it matters much to his oldest son who now owns it and the capture papers.

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02-08-2021, 06:23 PM	#1
Doubs User Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Byron, Georgia Posts: 1,736 Thanks: 819 Thanked 1,769 Times in 586 Posts	My neighbor growing up was a veteran of WW2, Company E, 194th Glider Infantry Regiment, 17th Airborne Division. He participated in "Operation Varsity", the assault across the Rhine River. Their LZ was near the city of Wessel. Long story short, his squad captured a group of German soldiers that were occupying a house on the end of a bridge over a canal. He took a J. P. Sauer & Sohn model 38H pistol and holster from one of them. Was the German soldier an officer? Maybe.... but maybe not. He showed the pistol and holster to me years ago and told me the full story of how he got it but I honestly don't recall if he said the previous owner who was captured alive was an officer or not. I doubt that it matters much to his oldest son who now owns it and the capture papers.