Johan Willaert Posted October 7, 2013 Report Share Posted October 7, 2013 Does anyone have info on dates of manufacture or issue of WW2 bazookas? How about the serial number with a - in front of the 1st number... Legit?Below is the M9A1 of the Belgian Commando Museum, but I have seen the same style on other examples...No GE marking, so I suppose it wasn't made by GE but rather Bigelow... Can anyone confirm all this??? Thanks http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s234/johanwillaert/Forums/M9A1.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emmagee1917 Posted October 7, 2013 Report Share Posted October 7, 2013 (edited) Order was placed with GE on May 19 , 1942 . Building began within 24 hrs and the first units were delivered for testing 4 days later. Over 2 weeks of testing resulted in some changes and acceptance . The first 5,000 were built and delivered to troop ships between June 10 and June 18 , 1942. GE was the only producer till June of '44 . GE delivered it's 300,000 unit in late '44 . Production stoped in May of 1945 . Ge made appx. 450,000 to Bigelow's 40,000.My M9A1 has a serial number of 201,xxx and has the GE stamp by it. I would think the lack of "GE" would indicate Bigelow , but that's just a guess. My unit does not have a "-" , but it is a six digit instead of a five , but I don't know if that's the reason.Chris Edited October 7, 2013 by emmagee1917 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johan Willaert Posted October 7, 2013 Author Report Share Posted October 7, 2013 Thanks for that! I have seen the models made by GE which have the GE below the serial number and I have also observed M9A1 models of which a 6 digit number is preceded by letters CB (Bigelow????) My M9A1 however also has a - in front of the 5digit number... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
copdoc Posted November 6, 2013 Report Share Posted November 6, 2013 Salem Steel in Winston Salem, NC made M1A1s.(not sure about other models) I have talked to prior owners son but he has no records from WWII. If they any ever show up he promised to call me. He had a factory demo launcher tube but it was stolen about 10 years ago. He said it did not have the wire wrapping. I am not sure if they made the steel parts under contract for someone else. They also made rockets. He gave me one of the M10s with old style fins. I told him this is a rare piece as it is very dangerous to inactivate one and the few remaining are prob all factory demos or just never filled. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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