My best WW2 vet bring backs.

[drm3m]

Most of my WWII collection has been sold.
I am now collecting only U.S. Civil War weapons.

The Luger was a gift from a family friend on June 2 2001 and I bought the Colt for $500 including a Springfield Trapdoor rifle from the son of the vet on March 27 2004.











==========================================================

 

[Coyote Ugly]

Nice Collection. Thanks for posting.

 

[Grain]

Both are in amazing condition; thanks for sharing!

 

[drm3m]

Thanks.

Tobin was an American flying for the RAF Ferry Command out of Dorval Airport in Montreal---is that why he got an American pistol?

After the War he brought up his family in Town of Mount Royal a suburb of Montreal.
I knew his eldest son from high school days. He currently lives in Texas.
Both the youngest son and daughter are deceased. The daughter was very helpful lending me some of the vet's stuff to photograph.
The three magazines were loaded with 1941 dated cartridges when I picked up the pistol.

 

[drm3m]

At the same time that I bought the Tobin Colt I also bought this Springfield Trapdoor rifle which I later traded for the Enfield carbine shown below.





uploads pics

 

[Jon9021]

Amazing!

 

[drm3m]

I wish this stuff belonged to me.







A final note----Tobin (an American) joined the RAF FERRY COMMAND in Montreal before the U.S. had entered the War.

Some background.

“The U.S. was still a neutral country, so word went out through the “aviation grapevine”
about a secret operation based in Montreal, that needed experienced civilian pilots.

They offered an irresistible combination- a vital and important job, the chance to fly the latest aircraft, and a very large paycheck.

This attracted a rowdy bunch of airline pilots, barnstormers, crop-dusters and daredevils---men used to danger and risk. But nothing could prepare them for the treacherous winter skies over the North Atlantic Ocean, that in 1940 no one dared fly.

Before the U.S. had even entered the war, American pilots comprised over half of the civilian pilots that flew the experimental Ferry Command routes.”

It appears that Capt. G.S. Tobin was one of these U.S. pilots.
Gilbert Shepard Tobin (the vet) died on August 17th 1977,...he was originally from Verona, N.J.