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Originally Posted by two-bit cowboy
Welcome aboard from Wyoming.
My V467553 shipped to Navy Norfolk on December 15, 1943. No US Property stamp. It wound up doing municipal police duty in Germany after the war, and an Air Force civilian employee bought it at a U.S. Army gun club in Bavaria in 1965 and brought it back to the states.
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Interesting! I've read that some of the pistols with no property stamps went to defence contractors to guard facilities or to other government agencies. I would love to find out the history on mine.