garandman Posted May 20, 2014 Report Share Posted May 20, 2014 Check out the cover of June Rifleman. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dalbert Posted May 20, 2014 Report Share Posted May 20, 2014 I heard it arrived in the mail today, but I'm away on business at the moment. Can you spare me the suspense? David Albertdalbert@sturmgewehr.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kilroy Posted May 21, 2014 Report Share Posted May 21, 2014 . Can you spare me the suspense? David Albertdalbert@sturmgewehr.com+1 Mine didn't arrive in the mail today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garandman Posted May 21, 2014 Author Report Share Posted May 21, 2014 101st airborne climbing onto C47. M1 is most prominent thing in picture. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
03clyde Posted May 21, 2014 Report Share Posted May 21, 2014 Great photo. Many kudos to this GI for his service - you talk about being "loaded down." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joseph12297 Posted May 21, 2014 Report Share Posted May 21, 2014 Mine better be in the mail today,!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
james m Posted May 21, 2014 Report Share Posted May 21, 2014 Check out the June, 2014 American Rifleman Cover. I think you'll like it!Jim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dalbert Posted May 21, 2014 Report Share Posted May 21, 2014 Check out the June, 2014 American Rifleman Cover. I think you'll like it!Jim Just in case you're wondering...I merged this topic with the virtually identical topic that was started yesterday... David Albertdalbert@sturmgewehr.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giantpanda4 Posted May 21, 2014 Report Share Posted May 21, 2014 Great photo indeed!Dave - that is why you killed my post in the middle of writing it! Timing is everything...! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piep Posted May 22, 2014 Report Share Posted May 22, 2014 Got mine today also.Now that is quite a load to jump out of a plane with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dolphinvet Posted May 22, 2014 Report Share Posted May 22, 2014 I got mine today as well. I plan on keeping this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jim c 351 Posted May 27, 2014 Report Share Posted May 27, 2014 I don't know about the rest of you but the first thought that crossed my mind when I saw the photo was, "I wonder if the numbers match on the receiver and trigger group. Jim C Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gio Posted May 27, 2014 Report Share Posted May 27, 2014 I'm sure that was foremost on his mind at the time. He was also wondering why he didn't have a burled wood stock. Hope you realize that I'm just kidding. We need to realize that these brave men or the armories didn't care about matching # as long as the weapon did it's job. Now 70 years latter we can't understand why uppers and lowers don't match and want a logical reason for these errors. Frank Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kilroy Posted May 28, 2014 Report Share Posted May 28, 2014 I was reading a book by Ernie Pyle titled "Brave Men". In the book he has a segment on an Ordnance Company and he goes into how these rifles were serviced. I just thought it was interesting because there is always a debate on 'corrected' vs. "leaving it a mix-master because that is truly correct". Figured people on here might enjoy reading it. Pg. 288 of Ernie Pyle's "Brave Men"Daily to the small-arms section of the company there came trucks with the picked-up, rusting rifles of men killed or wounded, and rifles broken in ordinary service. The outfit turned back around a hundred rifles a day to its division, all shiny and oiled and ready to shoot again. They operated on the simple salvage system of taking good parts off one gun and placing them on another. To do this they worked like a small assembly plant. The first few hours of the morning were devoted to taking broken rifles apart. They didn’t try to keep the parts of each gun together. All parts were standard and transferable, hence they threw each type into a big steel pan full of similar parts. At the end of the job they had a dozen or so pans, each filled with the same kind of part. Then the whole gang shifted over and scrubbed the parts. They scrubbed in gasoline, using sandpaper for guns in bad condition after laying out in the rain and mud. When everything was clean they took the good parts and started putting them together and making guns of them again. After all the pans were empty they had a stack of rifles-good rifles, ready to be taken back to the front. Of the parts left over some were thrown away, quite beyond repair. But others were repairable and went into the section’s shop truck for working on with lathes and welding torches. Thus the division got a hundred reclaimed rifles a day in addition to the brand-new ones issued to it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gio Posted May 28, 2014 Report Share Posted May 28, 2014 Kilroy, Good read thanks for the post. Frank Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mk VII Posted May 29, 2014 Report Share Posted May 29, 2014 I think I recall reading that one of these guys had to get two Air Corps men to stand on him to do the parachute harness buckles up tight, and then he couldn't stand up so they had to pick him up and put him in the plane. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buzz Posted May 30, 2014 Report Share Posted May 30, 2014 I was reading a book by Ernie Pyle titled "Brave Men". In the book he has a segment on an Ordnance Company and he goes into how these rifles were serviced. I just thought it was interesting because there is always a debate on 'corrected' vs. "leaving it a mix-master because that is truly correct". Figured people on here might enjoy reading it. Pg. 288 of Ernie Pyle's "Brave Men"Daily to the small-arms section of the company there came trucks with the picked-up, rusting rifles of men killed or wounded, and rifles broken in ordinary service. The outfit turned back around a hundred rifles a day to its division, all shiny and oiled and ready to shoot again. They operated on the simple salvage system of taking good parts off one gun and placing them on another. To do this they worked like a small assembly plant. The first few hours of the morning were devoted to taking broken rifles apart. They didn’t try to keep the parts of each gun together. All parts were standard and transferable, hence they threw each type into a big steel pan full of similar parts. At the end of the job they had a dozen or so pans, each filled with the same kind of part. Then the whole gang shifted over and scrubbed the parts. They scrubbed in gasoline, using sandpaper for guns in bad condition after laying out in the rain and mud. When everything was clean they took the good parts and started putting them together and making guns of them again. After all the pans were empty they had a stack of rifles-good rifles, ready to be taken back to the front. Of the parts left over some were thrown away, quite beyond repair. But others were repairable and went into the section’s shop truck for working on with lathes and welding torches. Thus the division got a hundred reclaimed rifles a day in addition to the brand-new ones issued to it. / / That paragraph should be screamed right into the ear hole of every Garand collector No group is more annoying than the "correct garand" builders out there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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