Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/11/12

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Subject: [Leica] Spare parts story....
From: doubs43 at cox.net (Walker Smith)
Date: Fri Nov 12 12:20:35 2004
 
Story my father told me and supposedly true: A soldier during WW2 
captured an engraved presentation handgun but his unit's policy forbid 
mailing handguns home to the States. Being an enterprising sort, the 
soldier broke the pistol down into various parts and mailed them. Parts 
were apparently OK to mail. However, being cautious, he didn't mention 
the pistol in letters to his wife for fear that the military censors 
would inform his unit. A couple of months after sending the final parts, 
he received a package from his wife..... with the completely assembled 
pistol in it.

Walker