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Just picked up a really nice WWII rebuild, Ser. # 1016528. Barrel date is 11-42. Rifle has that nice yellow-green color, 03A3 bolt, lower band and stacking swivel. Black rear sight. Vise marks on the barrel, "S" marked scant stock. I only have 3 SRS volumes but I see it is right there with USS California-salvaged rifles. Very happy indeed with this one. Makes up for the one that got away a couple of weeks ago.
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1015599 061131USMC
1016316 042231USMC - SAN DIEGO
1017597 101921USMC - NEW ORLEANS (SURVEYED)
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The old ad about Lays potato chips comes to mind ... LOL!!"We make men without chests and expect from them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst."
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man you aren't kidding Rick, they are addictive! lolLast edited by cplnorton; 06-04-2016, 08:02.Comment
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"We make men without chests and expect from them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst."
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I'm interested in the USS California entries.
1016532 120741 USS California (BB74) (Salvaged)
1016556 120741 USS California (BB74) (Salvaged)Comment
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My first choice is to have a "certified" Philippine M1903 (or M1917 or M1 or M1911); a close second would be a "Pearl Harbor M1903!"We make men without chests and expect from them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst."
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Rick and others, I have no doubt that my rifle is a USMC. The Hatcher's Hole, the black bolt, the black rear sight, the scant stock, the SA 42 barrel, the vise marks on the barrel, the park color. Is it possible the rifle came from the California and made it to a USMC rebuild facility?Comment
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Rick, my Uncle Al was in the 158th Infantry (The Bushmasters). He did some serious fighting in the Philippines. He received a Purple Heart in the fighting there. I recall him talking about carrying a bolt action, but I don't know if that was in training or in combat. Anyway, he passed a few years ago so I missed my opportunity to really question him.
He enlisted before Pearl Harbor. I do recall him talking about jungle warfare training in Panama. How did a Jewish kid from Brooklyn end up with a unit originally comprised of Mexican-American's and Native-American's from Arizona I'll never know. I'll ask my cousin (his son) when I see him.Last edited by Punch the Clown; 06-08-2016, 11:05.Comment
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While a lot of the National Guard units started out as "local" units, by the time a couple of years had gone by, many of them had been "leavened" with replacements from all over the country. However, I read a book about our local National Guard unit (161st Infantry Regiment) by an "outsider" at Guadalcanal and New Georgia, and he commented on the "clannishness" of the unit, a couple of years after they had been federalized.
I should have been more specific about my "interest" - Philippines, 1940-42, specifically, Bataan and/or Corregidor.Last edited by Rick the Librarian; 06-08-2016, 11:12."We make men without chests and expect from them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst."
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Punch, the Arizona Military Museum has a small section dedicated to the Bushmasters. Cool little museum, if you ever make it out to Phx let me know.
"The first gun that was fired at Fort Sumter sounded the death-knell of slavery. They who fired it were the greatest practical abolitionists this nation has produced." ~BG D. UllmanComment
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Thanks Tim.Comment
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There used to be a thread about those here that had every one of them on the list typed up to see.Comment
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Steve watch your email I'm sending you something
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