Nice WWII Underwood M1 Carbine Advertisement

[dalbert]

I don't recall seeing this Underwood ad previously. A buddy of mine who is a typewriter and gun collector forwarded it to me, as it was posted in a forum that he frequents. I thought I would post it here for commentary.

 

 

David Albert

dalbert@sturmgewehr.com

[anticus]

Thats very cool While my Dad and Uncles were e in service, everyone in the family who could did work for the war effort, either in a plant-my aunt Marie was a Rosie the Riveter for Curtiss-Wright-or volunteer work. The men on the front line depended on the home front for so much. Thanks for sharing this wonderful example.

 

 

John

Edited March 8, 2021 by anticus

[jim c 351]

David,

I really like it.

Jim C

[DINK]

The nice lady might have bumped elbows with my grandfather, who worked at the Underwood factory in Hartford CT during WW II. Interesting days for a guy from Germany working at a defense industry plant, LOL. He had a few "chats" with the FBI but kept his job and his freedom, so they must have liked his replies.

[Sandman1957]

Unfortunately the underlying tenets of what she states are no longer common virtues. Unless you had a family member in service few people paid attention to the sacrifices of those who served, and theirs families left back home. Our servicemen, especially those who served in Vietnam were often treated with hostility upon their return. The four times I came back from Iraq, we were welcomed as we came in, often times by Vietnam veterans who said they did not want us to feel like they did when they came home. I wish Americans appreciated what they have. Most have never seen how terrible other people live. If you thinks its bad here, and it is, and getting worse... it pales in comparison Fallujah, Ramadi, Khartoum, Sudan, Port of Prince, Haiti, Honduras, El Salvador, and Nicaragua. There are more, these are places I have been first hand. We have to get back to seeing the silver lining and the glass half full. You should always make things better. Despite most of the bad places we (Marines) were in, we left it better than we found it. (where we lived etc, not the places we destroyed). We need to get our morals and core values back. Funny, President Kennedy said "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your Country". Now its all about I, me not we... and what can my country give me...

end of rant...

Edited March 8, 2021 by Sandman1957