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jal5 · April 15, 2009, 03:23 PM

Not planning on spending too much on it. Just want to clean her up and maybe do a plaque mount for the desk or book shelf.

I learned that these 3 guns actually belonged to my uncle who told me over the weekend that he brought them back from WWII. The P38 has the name of another guy scratched into the inside of the grips...my uncle won it from him in a crap game! Little piece of GI history there. I will likely give all three of them to my cousins since they belonged to their dad...my grandfather's stuff was stored in the basement at my dad's for years after he died and these were mixed in so my dad thought they were grandad's guns. My uncle had no idea where they wound up he thought they were lost a long time ago I guess. The other two are definitely shooters though. Maybe I will be lucky and my cousin will give me one of them to keep.

Joe

April 15, 2009, 03:23 PM	#13
jal5 Senior Member Join Date: January 12, 2009 Location: NE Ohio Posts: 419	Not planning on spending too much on it. Just want to clean her up and maybe do a plaque mount for the desk or book shelf. I learned that these 3 guns actually belonged to my uncle who told me over the weekend that he brought them back from WWII. The P38 has the name of another guy scratched into the inside of the grips...my uncle won it from him in a crap game! Little piece of GI history there. I will likely give all three of them to my cousins since they belonged to their dad...my grandfather's stuff was stored in the basement at my dad's for years after he died and these were mixed in so my dad thought they were grandad's guns. My uncle had no idea where they wound up he thought they were lost a long time ago I guess. The other two are definitely shooters though. Maybe I will be lucky and my cousin will give me one of them to keep. Joe __________________ We live in the greatest country on Earth- always be thankful!