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Originally Posted by cattleman77
I recently acquired Victory V676425. It has a 5" barrel chambered for .38SW. It has US Property on the top strap With the GHD inspector initials. It has no import markings, but does have stamped on the left side: Pol. Br. with L.u.S. underneath. Does anyone know what these initials stand for?...
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Your gun was originally made for Lend-lease shipment to Britain in the summer of 1944.
After the war, it was issued by occupation authorities to the local German police in Bremen. Pol. Br. stands for Polizei Bremen. L.u.S. is most likely Land- und Stadtpolizei (state and city police), as Bremen was a city state.
After being surplused out or handed back by the Germans, some of these ended up for sale at rod and gun clubs at US bases. Because Bremen was a US enclave in the British zone, that may be how this gun ended up back in the US without any further markings.