Companion WW2 Pieces for my Inland M1 Carbine.

[JimF4M1s (Deceased)]

Nice Victory, and P-38. Surely the Victory, though being on opposite sides, companion seems awfully nice for the P-38. Enemy, foe, opponent, maybe?

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[imarangemaster]

Nice Victory, and P-38. Surely the Victory, though being on opposite sides, companion seems awfully nice for the P-38. Enemy, foe, opponent, maybe?

The P38 is a war trophy, as is the holster I got (though from different people). I do not have provenance for it, though I do not care. It has no import marks, and was in the family for many years, before it was given to the guy I got it from. When I was a kid, I went with my dad from Chicago to a farm in Indiana to see a war buddy of his. He had fought in North Africa, before ending up in the Pacific on Iwo with my dad. He had a transmitter and receiver from a German half track that he managed to ship home (he was Signal Core like my dad). He gave the transmitter and receiver to my dad, who was a ham. I later ended up with them, but sadly sold them in 1998 along with a lot of guns and other things when I was forced out on disability and my wife was laid off three weeks later. We had three kids in college at the time...

My dad's buddy also had a nice Luger, holster and two mags that he liberated from an enemy combatant that no longer needed them. We shot it on his farm, but it jammed a couple times. It was nice, but as a kid, I still wanted a P38. I thought they were both cooler and more practical. As an aside, he also used an M1 Carbine in the war.

[browningautorifle]

I still wanted a P38

That was what I was told way back then too, same sort of thing. If you wanted a trophy get a Luger but for a combat shooter a P38.