Luger Cache w/US GIs during WWII

phatrick88 · 05-29-2008, 04:28 AM

My Grandpa, who recently passed away, was in the 8th Air Force and fought in the Battle of the Bulge, etc. By the end of the war, I guess he had managed to piece together a nice collection of trophys and had a dufflebag full of Lugers, P38s, and a bunch of other souvenir's he had collected. He mentioned some of the stuff came from German Airbases he had landed at after they had been liberated (can we say Krieghoff lugers!!). Anyways, somewhere along his trip back to the states, his entire dufflebag was stolen and all those prizes lost forever! Thinking about this makes me just sick because being his only grandson, those guns would without a doubt be in my collection right now. He told me some cool stories, but I really regret not asking him more questions like these and learning more about the war from his perspective. I heard a statistic that something like a few hundred WWII vets die each day?? Very sad. Great to hear these stories and keeping their memories alive.

05-29-2008, 04:28 AM	#16
phatrick88 User Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: MN Posts: 54 Thanks: 7 Thanked 6 Times in 4 Posts	My Grandpa, who recently passed away, was in the 8th Air Force and fought in the Battle of the Bulge, etc. By the end of the war, I guess he had managed to piece together a nice collection of trophys and had a dufflebag full of Lugers, P38s, and a bunch of other souvenir's he had collected. He mentioned some of the stuff came from German Airbases he had landed at after they had been liberated (can we say Krieghoff lugers!!). Anyways, somewhere along his trip back to the states, his entire dufflebag was stolen and all those prizes lost forever! Thinking about this makes me just sick because being his only grandson, those guns would without a doubt be in my collection right now. He told me some cool stories, but I really regret not asking him more questions like these and learning more about the war from his perspective. I heard a statistic that something like a few hundred WWII vets die each day?? Very sad. Great to hear these stories and keeping their memories alive.