Luger Cache w/US GIs during WWII

[Edward Tinker]

Originally posted by phatrick88
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. ... 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. ...

Welcome to the forum;

a few comments;

1. Lots of guys managed to bring stuff home, and then over the next 2, 3 or even 45 years sold it for whatever reason, I hear all the time of how something or a lot of things were sold to fund a project, put kids through school or just put food on the table.


2. As the only grandson, doesn't mean it would have come to you! lots of fathers passed stuff along to daughters who treasured it, and/or some who passed it along to sons who had no interest and sold them to guys like my mentor or me


Ed