I don't care what anybody says. I have some REALLY BAD apprehensions about carrying a naked blade in my front pants pocket!
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I don't care what anybody says. I have some REALLY BAD apprehensions about carrying a naked blade in my front pants pocket!
LoboGunLeather
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How to keep your P38 sterile.
One day when I was in the U.S. Army, I grabbed a P38 still in its wrapper out of a C-Rations case and read the instructions on the wrapper. (Yes, I was bored.) The instructions made me chuckle.
To this day I have never, ever, seen or heard of a service member using the hole in the P38 as instructed on the P38 wrapper.
P38 Wrapper.
God bless,
John T.
I always wiped mine on my sleeve if it looked like it needed cleaning. After 5 or 6 days in the field all our clothes were rotting anyway, probably ready for the burn pile when we got back to a base camp.
Anyone else remember a night in the boonies during monsoon season, rain falling in solid sheets, huddling under a poncho overnight in temperatures under 50 degrees, teeth chattering in the cold, praying for dry socks? Pretty well describes my 19th birthday.
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A bunch of us got sick just after the monsoon started. I ended up in hospital, no fun. IIRC temp went from 100+ to 60+- in about 10 minutes.
Birdgun
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LGL, glad you made it back to "the world."
This is the P38 I carried on my key ring for many years while I was in the Army. Don't remember exactly where I got this one. When I retired from the Army in 1989, I took it off my key ring and it sits on a shelf in a special place of honor. Mine was manufactured by Speaker.
Salute,
Birdgun
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LoboGunLeather
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LGL, glad you made it back to "the world."
This is the P38 I carried on my key ring for many years while I was in the Army. Don't remember exactly where I got this one. When I retired from the Army in 1989, I took it off my key ring and it sits on a shelf in a special place of honor. Mine was manufactured by Speaker.
Salute,
Birdgun
Mine is also by Speaker. Over the years it has taken on more of a patina not unlike the bluing on a well worn pistol. Still works just fine, used it on a family fishing trip couple years ago. I have probably overlooked the sterilization instructions for a few decades.
Mine was made in Shelby, Ohio by Mallin Shelby Hardware inc.
They folded their tent in '73.
They folded their tent in '73.
Sonny's Surplus around Baltimore Md...A boy scouts dream placeI got a long military overcoat that I used to hunt in in cold inclement weather. Never forget the smell of waterproof?? canvas in those stores
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My P38 opened and closed many a radar cabinet.
I was in the Air Defense Artillery branch and maintained HAWK Missile System equipment. The cabinets on radars, and other equipment, had turn lock fasteners to hold the cabinets in place. The slot in the turn locks was/is just the right size for the butt end of a P38.
I was in the Air Defense Artillery branch and maintained HAWK Missile System equipment. The cabinets on radars, and other equipment, had turn lock fasteners to hold the cabinets in place. The slot in the turn locks was/is just the right size for the butt end of a P38.
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I still have in from 1951. It is also on my key ring. Opened a lot of beers since then. And C Rats
LoboGunLeather
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Then you take them out in the woods and show them how to hook up to a currant bush.
MSgt G
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Here you go. Hope you have a merry Christmas!
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What! Nobody’s flashing a 1/4 ton Jeep trailer or a stainless steel pocket knife?
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The “ surplus store smell” is MRT. Mildew resistant treatment, Love it and have for about 50 years.
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WWII US Army pocket knife.
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I flew the Alaska Highway back in 70. Crossed into Alberta and had to meet up with border/ flight plan people. Couldn't carry a handgun but had to have survival gear 870 included. I had 2 P-38s...one hanging on the chain over the Panel. Fellow asked me what it was...he was amazed.. French Canadian. He checked my gear...I filled up and flew on....Going back I had a M-29... trade for the 870...but was on Teeny Weeny Airlines. Sold the Cessna 170 to a fellow south of Nenana a town named Healy. Still got the P-38s...wish I had the 170
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