Why Were 100 Colt 1903s Sent to Java in 1941?

This factory-lettered Colt Model 1903 was sent to Bandoeng, Java, just months before Japanese forces invaded the Dutch East Indies. Its documented destination places it at the crossroads of espionage, resistance, and the war in the Pacific.

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