Is This A Maxim??

alanint · 03-20-2013, 08:23 PM

I've told this story before. My Great Uncle managed to acquire a Maxim in the oddest way. He was a soldier in the First Army in WW1. As he was lounging with his company at a railroad depot outside Paris at the end of the war, he spotted a number of tripod mounted machineguns on the station platform. Out of curiosity he walked over and realized that each gun had a hanging tag on it with individual US officer's names and addresses on them. Finding this luxury souvenir collecting highly unfair, he picked a gun and crossed out an officers name and address on one side of the tag and filled his in, (with adequate rank, of course) on the other side as a joke.

Imagine his utter surprise to find the gun waiting for him at home when he returned from Europe.

03-20-2013, 08:23 PM	#22
alanint User Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Marco Island, Florida Posts: 4,867 Thanks: 1,685 Thanked 1,917 Times in 1,193 Posts	I've told this story before. My Great Uncle managed to acquire a Maxim in the oddest way. He was a soldier in the First Army in WW1. As he was lounging with his company at a railroad depot outside Paris at the end of the war, he spotted a number of tripod mounted machineguns on the station platform. Out of curiosity he walked over and realized that each gun had a hanging tag on it with individual US officer's names and addresses on them. Finding this luxury souvenir collecting highly unfair, he picked a gun and crossed out an officers name and address on one side of the tag and filled his in, (with adequate rank, of course) on the other side as a joke. Imagine his utter surprise to find the gun waiting for him at home when he returned from Europe.