Photo - When Evil Walked Among Us: NRA National Firearms Museum Featured Gun

http://www.nramuseum.org In June 1942, a pair of German saboteur teams landed by U-boat on Montauk Point, Long Island, and Ponte Verdra Beach in Florida. The targets of these two four-man teams were rail lines and other important transportation and factory power systems. Their secondary targets were department stores and other public areas specially chosen to disrupt domestic morale.

Trained in Germany to utilize a wide range of explosive devices, the two teams were supposed to wait for three months before beginning any acts of sabotage in America. But from the start, things didnt go as planned. While burying their uniforms, explosives and other equipment on the beach, the Long Island team was discovered by a patrolling coastguardsman, John Cullen. After taking a hefty bribe to let them go, Cullen quickly notified his superiors and the manhunt was on. But despite eluding the FBI in New York, within a week two of the four saboteurs had a change of heart and turned themselves in to the FBI in Washington, DC. Arrests of the remaining team members quickly followed in New York, Florida and Chicago. Military trials then ensued, and six of the eight saboteurs were sentenced to death by the electric chair. The other two received life imprisonment sentences, which were later commuted when they were deported to Germany after the war ended.

Commemorating the FBI success with the case, several items seized from the saboteurs were displayed in FBI Director J. Edgar Hoovers personal office museum. One of the detonators and two handguns seized from the teams—a .32 Walther PPK pistol and a .32 Mauser Model 1934—were part of an informal exhibit that was seen by Hoovers friends and visitors. Prior to Hoovers death, his office museum contents were given to his executive assistant, who had maintained them over the years.
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[fluxerflixer1]

@ShooterReview The 1914 Mauser had a straight back strap wood grip, and the 1934 had a "Curved" back strap type grip......

[fluxerflixer1]

The difference between the Mauser 1914 and 1934 are the grip "back straps" the 1914 are straight and the 1934 has a curve to it....

[canadianglock22]

@ShooterReview ya the first one is a mauser 

[ShooterReview]

@canadianglock22 - Really? That first one looks exactly like a Mauser 1914. Check it out - let me know your thoughts.

[canadianglock22]

@ShooterReview walther

[ShooterReview]

Mauser and Walther?