So they wanted the gun back and Legacy Collectibles is making that happen this week.Ģ Rare P.38s (30 Caliber!) You Don’t Want to Miss Somehow dad sold the gun and they didn't realize that that had happened. Well the truth is, I had the daughter watch the video and said, we would like to have the gun. I told you that story and many of you wrote and said what a shame, why didn't the family want the gun. It was a P38 that was captured by Kenneth Price who won the Silver Star and the Bronze Star, wounded three times. Kenneth Price a Silver and Bronze Star Winnerīut speaking of P38s, let me give you an update on one of the stories that we did. There's probably 10 videos worth of material that I can cover. So today I'm just going to show you a couple of really rare guns but give you a broad brush overview on P38s and then later I'll come back and do individual videos on some of the different variations. Well, actually there's a lot to cover and I've been focused a lot on PPs and PPKs, doing all the different variations and once I jump into these waters, there's a lot to cover. Now I've already done a couple P38s but they were always capture stories and I often get comments from all of you saying we need to hear more about P38s. Hey guys, today I wanted to do an educational video on P38s.
Also gone were the lined Bakelite grips, replaced by black plastic panels with a pebbled texture.Walther P.38 Pistol Production (Brief History) Education of P.38 Using an aluminum frame, it was somewhat lighter. In 1956, Walther introduced an updated P-38, adopted by the West German police and military as the P1. This would include short-barreled P-38K variants, curious long-barreled Lang models, and the reinforced P-38 II. Within a few years, they were making the iconic P-38 once again– this time with their traditional banner logos. This led to the production in France by Manurhin which we won’t get into here.įor Carl Walther, they would rebuild in Ulm, West Germany in 1953. The three wartime P-38s makers all lost their factories during the conflict. Notably, the Russians still have thousands in arsenal storage although they gave away crate loads as an aid to budding Communist regimes around the world during the Cold War. Servicemen to America as trophies and were impounded by Allied forces. With such a huge glut of guns surrendered in 1945, thousands were brought back both by U.S. In all, over a million P-38s were produced in wartime Germany for both military and police issue. The pistol also has ribbed phenolic AEG Grips, which are correct to period Mauser-made P38s. To put this into historical perspective, this is just after the famous D-Day invasion in Normandy. This pistol’s “byf 44” code, “WaA145” Waffenamt inspector’s marks and 7168w serial number puts its manufacture about July 1944. Mauser made P-38s at their facility in Oberndorf am Neckar in 1942 under a variety of manufacturer’s codes.
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