Help with info on my grandpas gun?

Kiwi · 02-08-2021, 06:28 PM

Could be anyone found in an office is an office'er

gunbugs · 02-08-2021, 09:47 PM

With the Germans, usually as you went up in rank, the pistols got smaller. "Officers" didn't want to carry a heavy gun. Many GI's thought a German was an "Officer" because the Huns wore their Medals/Decorations on their combat uniforms, and most German ranks were hard to distinguish, compared to Allied ranks. (Obersturmbannfuhrer?Hauptbereitschaftsleiter?)Plus, of course, it makes a better story than "I took it off a big pile of surrendered/captured weapons", not very exciting. But we have a number of photos of heaps of captured weapons with GI's/Tommies rooting through them. In some cases, they have multiple pistols. (That must have been fun for a guy that liked guns.)

ithacaartist · 02-09-2021, 10:10 PM

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Originally Posted by gunbugs

"I took it off a big pile of surrendered/captured weapons", not very exciting.

Everything's relative, I guess. who among us would NOT be excited by access to a pile of captured Lugers?

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02-08-2021, 06:28 PM	#1
Kiwi User Join Date: Mar 2019 Location: Wrong side of the Delaware river Posts: 320 Thanks: 229 Thanked 456 Times in 180 Posts	Could be anyone found in an office is an office'er

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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	With the Germans, usually as you went up in rank, the pistols got smaller. "Officers" didn't want to carry a heavy gun. Many GI's thought a German was an "Officer" because the Huns wore their Medals/Decorations on their combat uniforms, and most German ranks were hard to distinguish, compared to Allied ranks. (Obersturmbannfuhrer?Hauptbereitschaftsleiter?)Plus, of course, it makes a better story than "I took it off a big pile of surrendered/captured weapons", not very exciting. But we have a number of photos of heaps of captured weapons with GI's/Tommies rooting through them. In some cases, they have multiple pistols. (That must have been fun for a guy that liked guns.)