"Afrika Korps" luger?

stressed · 02-16-2014, 04:34 PM

Wont be able to get out there for the next week or two. Would the capture papers indicate North African theatre instead of European theatre? I know it wouldn't be the Pacific theatre but it's not Europe either.

stressed · 02-20-2014, 08:54 PM

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Wont be able to get out there for the next week or two. Would the capture papers indicate North African theatre instead of European theatre? I know it wouldn't be the Pacific theatre but it's not Europe either.

Can anyone answer this question

318is_Parabellum · 02-20-2014, 09:05 PM

"Anything" is *possible*, I suppose. Capture papers issued to a soldier from the N. African TO seem to me to be highly unlikely, as the US was just getting into the war in Europe during the N. African campaign (perhaps most famously, "the Big Red One").

Back then, enlistees/draftees were "in for the duration", and the drawdown didn't happen until well after the war in Europe had been won, and the war in the Pacific had been decided as well. I know for a fact that many ETO veterans were to be redeployed to the PTO for the upcoming invasion of the Japanese home island of Kyushu, until the Japanese surrender in August 1945.

I would view any "capture papers" from the N. African theater of operations with deep suspicion. Such documents are altogether too easy to fake... I cannot state categorically that such papers do not exist, but in my limited experience I've never come across any.

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stressed User Join Date: Feb 2014 Posts: 197 Thanks: 41 Thanked 43 Times in 30 Posts	Wont be able to get out there for the next week or two. Would the capture papers indicate North African theatre instead of European theatre? I know it wouldn't be the Pacific theatre but it's not Europe either.

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318is_Parabellum User Join Date: Aug 2013 Location: West Virginia Posts: 130 Thanks: 80 Thanked 75 Times in 31 Posts	"Anything" is possible, I suppose. Capture papers issued to a soldier from the N. African TO seem to me to be highly unlikely, as the US was just getting into the war in Europe during the N. African campaign (perhaps most famously, "the Big Red One"). Back then, enlistees/draftees were "in for the duration", and the drawdown didn't happen until well after the war in Europe had been won, and the war in the Pacific had been decided as well. I know for a fact that many ETO veterans were to be redeployed to the PTO for the upcoming invasion of the Japanese home island of Kyushu, until the Japanese surrender in August 1945. I would view any "capture papers" from the N. African theater of operations with deep suspicion. Such documents are altogether too easy to fake... I cannot state categorically that such papers do not exist, but in my limited experience I've never come across any.