A.W. du Bray's great grandson

[edgarspencer]

Bruce, it simply boggles my mind how you pull this stuff up. I struggle with whether I took my pills this morning.

[Bruce Day]

The accounts of the time of DuBray tell how he would shoot sea ducks in the San Francisco Bay wetlands, perhaps with the same gun his grandson is inquiring about to sell. Lot of family history there. I’m sure glad I have my grandfather’s gun, although it sure isn’t anything high grade or special except to me.

Edgar, I was in San Francisco a few years back and stayed at the Marine Memorial Club. Lines of flags with battle streamers carried at Guadalcanal, Tawara, Iwo Jima, Saipan , where my father was. It’s always a humbling experience. Too bad the old quarters at the Presidio where I used to stay for almost nothing are closed. I thought I’d walk on down to the Sutter, go to Tadich, and old North Beach. All those places that Dashiel Hammett wrote about are there.

[James Palmer]

Sea ducks in the bay were fantastic this yr....

[John Davis]

Been trying to attach a copy of du Bray's gun list. If successful, you'll see the AA is the second gun listed.

[John Davis]

The list is actually two pages.

[Southpaw]

Great stuff, I think Scoop Romig will find all this interesting.

[Trap3]

I would like to see the Live Bird Trophy...

Enjoy the Sport

Trap3

[Bill Murphy]

John, are the two pages in the original attachment? If not, can you post a picture of the second page? I spent a lot of time yesterday looking for that list in my files and couldn't find it. Thanks. I would also like to see a good picture of the trophy.

[John Davis]

Bill, second page was not attached but l’ll do that as soon as I get back to my computer.

[BRDHNTR]

Bruce, I share your same interest and passion for military history especially WW2 Pacific theatre but not exclusively. I've swam off the invasion beaches of Saipan and toured the island. Pillboxes, Japanese tanks and artillery pieces still litter the invasion beaches. But the most moving experience I had in the Pacific was visiting the American Cemetery of the Pacific just outside Manila. If that hallowed ground does not move one to tears, they're not human. Not my intent to hijack this thread, just wanted to respond to something Brice said earlier in this thread that moved me