Was famous for wearinging pearl handle revolvers.
2007-12-31 09:02:23 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Military
O.K O.K., were those revolvers pearl handled or ivory handled, lets hear from someone else and be sure! There were several ledgends about these revolvers too!
2007-12-31 10:06:12 · update #1
George S Patton
2007-12-31 09:09:47 · answer #1 · answered by JJHantsch 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Gen. Patton. and they were ivory not pearl.
I saw my Dad get up and say something to the TV twice. The 1st time was in response to a guy saying that the Holocaust never happened and there were no camps. He was in HQ/2/317 80th ID 3rd Army, liberators of Buchenwald April 45. He flipped the bird at the screen and yelled "f you I was there". The 2nd time was the scene (Patton 1970) where Patton is asked where he is going. Dad jumped up and said "He did that, the crazy bastard passed us on the swing up to Bastonge, freezing cold, snowing and the sob is cheering us on with those GD pistols shining like a bulls eye for a sniper."
IVORY
One of Patton's revolvers was a .45 caliber Colt Single-Action Army model, serial number 332088, with a 4 ¾ inch barrel, ivory handles, and a nickel-plated finish. It was delivered from the Colt factory to Shelton Payne Arms Company in El Paso, Texas on March 4th, 1916, where it was further customized before then-2nd Lt. Patton took possession of it, shortly before Pershing's campaign into Mexico against Pancho Villa. It is believed that two notches carved into the left-hand ivory grip are to commemorate Patton's killing of Villa's most notorious lieutenants.
His other revolver was a Smith & Wesson .357 Magnum with a 3 ½ inch barrel, serial number 47022. (The large-frame .357 Magnums would later become designated Model 27, when S&W switched to using a numerical system for naming their various models of handguns.) It was shipped directly to him in Hawaii from the S&W factory on October 18th, 1935. Patton had the ivory grips fitted to it later.
2007-12-31 10:08:02 · answer #2 · answered by Stand-up philosopher. It's good to be the King 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They wer not "Pearl" you oaf. They were Ivory!
"Pearl handles are for pimps" GS Patton, General USA
He got mad when the press called them Pearl.
Ret. USAF SNCO
2007-12-31 10:00:52 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
The American war-horse/warrior Gen. George S. Patton ! :0)
2007-12-31 09:33:18 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Gen. George S. Patton. His famous pearl handle .45 is on display at the armor museum at Ft. Knox.
2007-12-31 09:10:15 · answer #5 · answered by Marine till Death 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋