A "Captured" P-38 pistol.

[Adam Helmer]

My neighbor, Mike, keeps coming up with very interesting stuff. He was cleaning out his deceased grandfather's home and found a P-38 captured in January 1945 in the Battle of the Bulge by his grandad. The pistol is mentioned in the WWII vet's diary as being taken off a Volkssturm kid on January 30, 1945.

I like history and see a little bit of it here. The pistol is dated "1945" and was captured in January1945. Another mystery is the fact the frame serial number and the slide serial number are close, BUT do not match. I wonder if the guns were cleaned behind the German lines and in darkness, or in the press of battle, the wrong slide got put onto this pistol. Or maybe, later, some GIs reassembled their captured P-38s and got the slides mixed up. Perhaps we will never know.

The pistol is in new condition, but a bit rough on the exterior reflecting wartime conditions in the Reich. It shot well with WW factory Ball and factory 147 grain JHPs.

Adam