Magazine & Clip term Missused on Thompson pouch

[Countryboy77]

So I was looking at Thompson cases and this case for Thompson magazines says 'clip' . Now we all know proper terminology but I guess in the 40s those at DOD didnt. 

[68coupe]

OR, it's a fraudulent copy? I'm pretty sure the ordnance department knew the difference between a mag and a clip, BUT, on the other hand, we are discussing a classic case of "Military Intelligence".

Karl

[Doug Quaid]

I grew up around a lot of WWII guys.

They commonly used the term "clip" for magazine.  I grew up thinking that my Marlin 22 rifle magazine was called a "clip."

When the internet got big, for some reason everyone got antsy about it and started acting like it was the wrongest possible word.

Whether or not the military used the term for a box magazine, I would love to know.

 

[dalbert]

The bag in question is for the M3, and was labeled as “clip,” which serves to show how many incorrect terms and misnomers can be documented through physical items and manuals. 
 

Some examples like this include the following:

- This magazine bag

- M1 Carbine flip sight installed backwards on Inland #18

- An M1 Carbine is a miniature M1 Garand

- FM 23-6 for the M1917 (Enfield)

There are others that don’t immediately come to mind, but I have thought about someday writing an article on the subject.

David Albert

[dalbert]

In the case of the M1917 (Enfield) manual, it serves to show how a nickname made it into the official designation of a Field Manual.  
 

David

[Countryboy77]

43 minutes ago, Doug Quaid said:

I grew up around a lot of WWII guys.

They commonly used the term "clip" for magazine.  I grew up thinking that my Marlin 22 rifle magazine was called a "clip."

When the internet got big, for some reason everyone got antsy about it and started acting like it was the wrongest possible word.

Whether or not the military used the term for a box magazine, I would love to know.

 

You right.Not many harped on this subject till the internet. Never has bothered me much but WOW have I seen the arguments online. And for years I grew up thinking they were synonymous and 'stripper clips' is what I loaded into bolt action surplus and a sks I had and pops Garand 'En bloc clips'.I remember My father was selling sks at the gun show and I took a walk.I took a walk to get a couple spare clips for my 1911 and the guy selling the stainless Wilson 8 shot mags I wanted corrected me in a dickly way I guess to prove his intellectual superiority to a 14 year old. Anyway that was the days a 14 year old coukd get magazines and knives and cool surplus without the " you need to be an adult"

[anjong-ni]

Dad fought WW2 in Europe from D-Day to VE-Day.

9th US Army Division. Heutgen Forest. Wounded twice. Fired every weapon we had.

"Ammunition" was "bullets".

The things that held "bullets" in ANY gun were "CLIPS"...          Phil