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Old 05-04-2017, 09:00 AM
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Here is just one which I know had at least one exciting trip in its biography:

A pre-Victory British Service Revolver, shipped to the British Purchasing Commission in May 1941.

Since it has the acceptance stamp from the Royal Small Arms Factory at Enfield on the frame, which was discontinued once Lend-lease started, I know it crossed the ocean in the belly of a freighter sometime before the end of 1941, at a time when it looked like the U-boats might be winning the Battle of the Atlantic. Obviously, this ship made it.

The gun later transferred into Australian service, most likely by way of resupply for the Australian divisions fighting in the Mediterranean theater, and was FTR'd at Lithgow in 1954, where it lost its original blue finish.

PS: It just occurred to me that this gun almost certainly circumnavigated the Earth. When VEGA in California re-imported these from Australia, they surely came directly across the Pacific. And since I got it on GB from a dealer in NY, it closes the circle. Not that it matters, it's just a cool thought .
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