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Originally Posted by
Ovidio
He kept it for self defence against whoever…
Like the Red Brigade...
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07-01-2021 09:49 AM
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Grandpa on Mom's side, against the Germans. He was looked for, because he was a friend of three brothers, Fratelli Brancondi, who joined the non-communist NLF and were sentenced to death and shot at a roadside. They then started to look for all their friends, but Grandpa was informed and could hide.
After that, he kept the gun at home, hidden for the partisans, who could show up at any time just because he was a judge, so an enemy of the people.
Then he must have forgotten it, until I found a Carcano bayonet (which I still have) hidden behind his books in a big library he had at home.
I was looking for a book and... tadaaaa! So I looked around and found a Beretta 34, without some parts, three boxes of 6,5 Carcano ammo, and a MAB. The wonderful version of the picture. I asked him and he just took it from me and I never saw it again. I guess that he threw it in our water well.
A real pity...
The ironic thing is that my Grandpa lived in Loreto (Ancona), in what became Via Fratelli Brancondi 94... A wonderful palace we sold at the end of the nineties...
34a cp., btg. Susa, 3° rgt. Alpini
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Hey Mark,
which M1s? Carbines or Garands?
I spot one Garand
and two Carbines.
BEAR
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Originally Posted by
BEAR
Hey Mark,
which M1s? Carbines or Garands?
I spot one
Garand and two Carbines.
BEAR
you got them all
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose
There are no great men, only great challenges that ordinary men are forced by circumstances to meet.
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Left M1 slung, 30M1 Rt rear side of jeep muzzle facing photographer, soldier on the Rt no mag in either weapon
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