My neighbor passed away two days ago; he was an armorer in a B-24 squadron in the ETO; he told me that when the war ended he had a "footlocker full of 45 and 38 caliber pistols and revolvers" that had been signed for by aircrews that were lost on missions. He didn't know what to do with them, so he dumped the locker, guns and all, into a lake in Germany!