Luger was ultimate war trophy

Bob Egan · 04-03-2001, 12:16 AM

According to the famed historian Ambrose,a paratrooper in Normandy braved intense enemy fire at great risk to get to a fallen German soldier to retrieve his Luger which turned out to be an artillery sight in a similar holster.Now here was a determined Luger collector.Also a vet told me that on the way home on a troopship the PA announced that all duffel bags would be searched and that anyone with contraband would not be allowed ashore until after charges were preferred.He threw his seven Lugers over the rail, and the bags were never searched.He was still crying about it thirty years later!

04-03-2001, 12:16 AM	#4
Bob Egan User Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 34 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: Luger was ultimate war trophy According to the famed historian Ambrose,a paratrooper in Normandy braved intense enemy fire at great risk to get to a fallen German soldier to retrieve his Luger which turned out to be an artillery sight in a similar holster.Now here was a determined Luger collector.Also a vet told me that on the way home on a troopship the PA announced that all duffel bags would be searched and that anyone with contraband would not be allowed ashore until after charges were preferred.He threw his seven Lugers over the rail, and the bags were never searched.He was still crying about it thirty years later!