The reason my grand father procured the Mauser, as I was told, because he intended to use it wild boar hunting that were found on some of the Islands off shore of the California Coast.Ībsolutely gorgeous, and seriously a twin of mine!! I love the story of how your grandfather came into it, too. During that time he was on loan from Holywood and under the employ of Alexander Korda in the U.K to make the movie "THINGS TO COME" ĭuring the course of the filming my grand father purchased this Mauser pistol from an individual that had recieved it during the Great War. It is my understanding that my grand father brought back the Mauser from England in 1934. Upon my grand father's passing my father told me an interesting story of how his father had gained possesion of the pistol. Just as my late father had recieved it from his. My Mauser was recieved by me from my late father. Interesting enough, I see that both of these guns a have similar patina and same holster wear to the upper part of the barrel. My gun probably came from similar circumstances as a battle field pick up. Interesting enought, I have a same Mauser pistol. Immaculate condition, perfect bore, and a great shooter! I take it out for shooting at family events. Proof-marked as having been received into the arsenal of Kaiser Wilhelm and then into the Austro-Hungarian arsenal in Vienna in 1917, all numbers match, including the wooden holster/shoulder stock. He cleaned and put away the gun, and I inherited it on his passing in 1997. Upon hearing the good news, he loaded a full clip into the fixed magazine and fired them into the air over the lake (LOL, just try that today!!). He was home on leave at our family place on a New Hampshire lake following the victory in Europe, awaiting his orders for the mainland invasion of Japan. Turns out they were young teenagers and an old man who had been taught how to load and fire the howitzer, but not how to aim it! The "officer" in charge of this group surrendered his Broomhandle to my grandfather. They continued their advance, avoiding the incoming rounds, and surrounded the small detachment of Germans, who quickly surrendered. The column assumed a defensive posture but soon realized that all of the incoming fire was landing in the same crater. My grandfather told the story of how he "liberated" this sidearm without bloodshed.Īs XO of the 45th Tank Battalion, 13AD, he was commanding a column of tanks advancing across eastern France and into Germany as they began to take incoming howitzer fire.
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