SE well they were vet acquirements except for the Bazooka.
I will tell all of you the story in brief form. I was in the 6th grade ....... (man that seems like an eternity ago). One day my dad and I were driving south of town, crossed the great Rogue river heading to the only sporting goods shop in the small town - at the time. this was back in 1964. What was in place at the front of the shop for at least a year were two huge and had to be at least 15 feet in length, two big aluminum fake fishing lures side by side and what I had noticed during the month was something dark with a type of shield stuck underneath the lures. Well dad had to pick up the latest fishing gadgets for a trip to the high lakes so he went in and I got real curious............WHOA........
i could not believe my eyes. i went in and asked the owner behind the front high counter and he came out and pulled the thing out, it was dusty, cobwebs on the shield and spiders down the barrel, he told me it had been sitting under those big boy lures for 2 years and no-one had an interest in seeing it except for little ol me. He then proceeded to tell me it was $ 20.00 bucks. I of course knew exactly what the "thing" was and pleaded with my dad on the spot. Dad begrudginly said where are you going to put it ? ......in your bedroom or in the garage ? let me worry about that pop. he forked over a 20.00 dollar bill extra to the guy, the owner just smiled and shook his head as we tried almost in vain to cram that long sucker through the back and out the side windows of my dads yellow Ford Falcon.
life is funny ........ ~ the shield is Wehrmacht grey and the barrel is green, have been told this was in service on the Finnish/northern front and taken after war by the Finns who re-painted it green and put an SA marking on the barrel.