Thursday, July 31, 2014

Hitler's #1 P-38 Pistol is for sale for an estimated $48,000,000!

Every gun collector's dream is to get a garage-sale basket-case project and find out it's worth more than he paid for it.

Hitler's P-38 for sale



In this case, a $300 garage sale find is turning out to be worth millions, bidding expected to start at 25 million in fact during an auction at RareP38.com.

The working P-38, complete with 24 karat gold and blood stains on the holster, was liberated by a soldier from the 101st Airborne, Easy Company.

KNWA was able to get an interview with the local man willing to sell it:





While the story will inevitably revolved around the collector who found it and the price of the gun, it's important to know a little bit about the men (plural) who originally liberated Hitler's gun during the war -

Well done men!
Earl McClung
Bill O'Laine
Frank Griffin
Bob Noody
Les Hegland



You can read more about them at Cost of Freedom Veteran's Museum HERE