Vet Bring back
I would like to through this out for consideration. If a GI is in a combat situation
with all hell going on around him, and he kills a soldier. Would that GI pick up another 9 lbs of rifle to carry around? And then what? What does he do with it then? Keep carrying it? Store it some where to be stolen later? I have yet to see any film's of WW 2 that showed any GI carrying any German rifles. I know of a tanker vet that came upon a storage building in Germany late in the war and when they entered, there were rack's and rack's of brand new un fired K98's. He said almost every one in the out fit grabed one. Having a nice place to store one, like a Sherman tank. I saw the new K98 as he sold it to a gunsmith friend of mine, and it was brand new. I am really in the dark about this as I was never in a combat situation. Being in the artillary, I would have had the same transportation and storage space to keep it as the tankers did.
Would like to hear other comment's
Just as a side note, there was the story about the Marine called "shorty" who lobbed a grenade into a Jap bunker at the foot of Suribachi, killing the soldiers inside. He supposably kept a helmet with all the brain matter inside, (a fragment entered his chin and came out the top of the helmet) and bought it home. That story was told to some unsuspecting buyer of a fake Jap helmet!
The story of course was as bogas as the helmet, but I can't imagine a Marine so preoccupied with all that going around, would carry that mess around with him. Trophies I imagine were picked up long after the battle's were over.
geopop
I would like to through this out for consideration. If a GI is in a combat situation
with all hell going on around him, and he kills a soldier. Would that GI pick up another 9 lbs of rifle to carry around? And then what? What does he do with it then? Keep carrying it? Store it some where to be stolen later? I have yet to see any film's of WW 2 that showed any GI carrying any German rifles. I know of a tanker vet that came upon a storage building in Germany late in the war and when they entered, there were rack's and rack's of brand new un fired K98's. He said almost every one in the out fit grabed one. Having a nice place to store one, like a Sherman tank. I saw the new K98 as he sold it to a gunsmith friend of mine, and it was brand new. I am really in the dark about this as I was never in a combat situation. Being in the artillary, I would have had the same transportation and storage space to keep it as the tankers did.
Would like to hear other comment's
Just as a side note, there was the story about the Marine called "shorty" who lobbed a grenade into a Jap bunker at the foot of Suribachi, killing the soldiers inside. He supposably kept a helmet with all the brain matter inside, (a fragment entered his chin and came out the top of the helmet) and bought it home. That story was told to some unsuspecting buyer of a fake Jap helmet!
The story of course was as bogas as the helmet, but I can't imagine a Marine so preoccupied with all that going around, would carry that mess around with him. Trophies I imagine were picked up long after the battle's were over.
geopop
That's very sad
. It was a great museum. I would definately take his Fw-190D9!!!
And it's always the Battle of the Bulge for some reason?
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