I guess this would be a bring-back. It was brought back by the same person it went with.
This was grandpa’s. He was a lieutenant commander in the Navy, stationed on destroyers in the pacific. His guys would decipher our incoming messages and pass the info along. When I was a kid, he mentioned to my dad that he still had his “gun from the war” in a file cabinet at his house. My dad never knew about it growing up. He gave it to my dad at that time, along with the holster, belt, mags, and mag pouch. Dad isn’t really a gun guy, so I always made sure to keep it oiled and clean when I would visit.
About 15 years later, I was hanging out with Grandpa at his house. He was showing me a box of his Navy paperwork, when I came across the receipt. Holy shit Grandpa! He thought it was funny that, of all the things in this box, my eyes lit up over a receipt. He said a guy with a dolly full of pistol boxes showed up and said he was dishing them out to officers. This was at Pearl Harbor, February of 1944 (PH is on the upper left of the receipt). He said he never shot it as far as he could remember. We shot it a little bit when I was younger, and took Grandpa to the range about 10 years ago to shoot his pistol.
He came back for Korea and then went on with his life. Lived to 99 1/2 years.
I turned 35 a couple weeks ago and dad finally passed the gun on to me. I keep it liberally oiled, obviously. The receipt is safe, just not kept at my house.
Here’s a photocopy thats easier to read.
