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Unread 05-15-2024, 11:02 AM   #1
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David... I looked through some old Trapshooting average books to see if I could find a listing for your grandfather, Fred Carstens. The only Carstens I found listed was a Charles from Wisner NE. (shooting in the late 20`s-early 30`s) Thanks for sharing the photos of your "great" Parker Trap gun and history of your grandfather...

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Gaawwwddddd, how I love these "out-of-the-woodwork" tales!! My kingdom for a DGJ redivivus!!

David, your grandad was a "Hellcat," a member of one, kick-ass armored division that fought from Southern France all the way to Berlin. I'm betting a month after that photo was taken he was in the fight of his life, waist-deep in the Battle of Herrlisheim (Google it) where an entire tank battalion from the 12th Armored Div. vanished from existence.

Another engrossing tale like countless others courtesy of the Greatest Generation. One day, a Nebraska farm boy, a few months later he's on an epic, momentous crusade to obliterate the most depraved, evil-minded race the world has ever known. Thanks for the morning goosebumps!! And oh, BTW, a beautiful Parker to boot!!
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David... I looked through some old Trapshooting average books to see if I could find a listing for your grandfather, Fred Carstens. The only Carstens I found listed was a Charles from Wismer NE. (shooting in the late 20`s-early 30`s) Thanks for sharing the photos of your "great" Parker Trap gun and history of your grandfather...

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Randy, is that Wisner, NB? I don't see a Wismer.............let me know. Thanks!!


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Sorry, Wisner, NE, not NB. Typing faster than I can keep up..............



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