War trophy papers

I have a Mauser HSc my father who was in the 101 Airborne brought home. When I was a kid I found a document on it-it was a form printed on a half sheet of paper signed by some duty officer stating he had examined "items of captured enemy equipment" which was this pistol and a pair of binoculars and passed them as legit souvenirs.

He had recorded the serial number on the magazine instead of the one on the pistol.

I personally would not give two cents for "capture papers" but that is my own opinion.

Anyone who has bothered to fill their military obligation will be familiar as to how arbitrary and haphazard these types of things things are in actual practice.


Mike P