The glass had too many weird reflections and I just glanced. Ho-hum, another souvenir PPk. I'm glad I looked twice. It's a SIG P38h, a substitute standard for the Walther .32.
You see so few because production topped out around 200,000 compared to some 5 million PPks. It is somewhat clunkier looking than the Walther.
The "h" stands for "hammerless"** to avoid, we're told, having Lt. Heinie confuse it with the big Walther 9mm. My friend Ken observed "h" could just as easily stand for "hammer." True enough, maybe. There's just no understanding the Nazis, maybe helping us understand why we killed them at every opportunity.
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*Mr. President and CinC Obama: North Africa came before D-Day, and Patton was there, just like in the movie you saw. But he didn't command an army yet. That happened a little later when he "unleashed" his 7th Army on Sicily. To make sure I'm putting this complicated chronology clearly enough for your Teleprompter, it was North Africa, then Sicily/Italy, then D-Day at Normandy, then General Patton at the head of the 3rd Army. Just in case you ever need to make another warrior speech or something.
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**Shrouded hammer, actually.
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Re the chronology--as a former member of his cabinet, and his would-be successor, once said, "What difference does it make?" Sarcasm intended. JAGSC
Yeah, I figure the same. She'll run for president as soon as she gets caught up on her MasterCard bill. Also heard she's trying to scrape up rent money playing the cattle futures market.
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