Pistols only. Pics of revolvers will be deleted.
Nice set. Do you have any pics of a fully authentic MEU/SOC pistol?...anyhow, those are a few of my most interesting 1911s.
Hi,This Colt M1911, mfg in early 1918, and S.& R. (Sheffer & Rossum, St. Paul, Minnesota) M1916 holster were carried in combat. . My Great Uncle George Linsmeyer was 27 when he entered service for World War One from the small Northern Wisconsin lumber and farming community of Butternut. He was sent to France with other men who initially were assigned to the 86th Division, but the 86th was dissolved and the men reassigned when they disembarked in France in June 1918 to various Divisions desperately needing replacements. He served in the 78th Infantry, 309th Infantry, Company F. The 78th was the point of the spear in the final three huge battles of WW1... Meuse-Argonne, St. Mihiel, and Lorraine. He served as the Company "Runner" ... literally, with no radio communications, they chose a physically fit guy with woods craft skills to literally "run" messages from the Company commander to the various other units. I find it interesting that they chose a 27 year old for this job, but I guess being a farmer in Wisconsin and living in the woods his entire life made him the best choice as most of the 78th Division were "counter jumpers" from out East. Runners were sniper bait, a priority target... and rarely survived more then a week.... whether German, Austrian, British, French or American. George knew fluent German, he told me once that it came in pretty handy on a number of occasions in no-mans-land when he would get challenged by Germans. On one junket through no-mans land, George was struck in the head by a bullet... it creased down his helmet, went through his gas mask bag and the canister of the gas mask inside... coming to rest in a shaving soap tin he used to store matches and chewing gum in, kept in his left chest shirt pocket. He kept those items and I saw them many times as a boy. He was the first guy I saw with hearing aids as a kid. the gunfire and explosions had destroyed his hearing and he was stone deaf without them.