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Originally Posted by Kurusu
I know for a fact that the pistols of the Portuguese Navy contract of 1910/11(a little over 500 pistols) were completely "messed up" during their "service years"  . And it was the Commander that was "in charge" that had "the boys" put them back in order before they were sold as surplus. And our Navy almost never used them "in anger".  |
I remember reading somewhere that the last Lugers to be carried in combat by a major country‘s regular armed forces were Portuguese Lugers in Africa (Angola and Mozambique) in the 1970s. Did they really hold out that long?