OK, maybe I'm straining the theme here. This one isn't much different except it is the only one I've ever seen with a matching holster.

S&W shipped lots of Victory Models to the Navy Yard Mare Island facility in Oakland, CA. For some reason that facility marked them again. The so-called "Red Navy" marking was the most common (even though some are filled with white paint, rather than red). N.Y.M.I XXX where the Xs represent an issue number are also seen and there were a few marked just M.I XXX. I don't have one of the latter guns but I may have a picture that I'll post if I can find it.

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Kevin Williams SWCA1649 HF208

That's awesome, my old man was a machinist at mare island before they closed it down

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I toured Mare Island a few years back. VERY interesting. HAD to be a hell of a place back when it was running full bore. How do they come up with Oakland? It's at Vallejo isn't it?

Interesting history fact. The flag the Marines raised on Iwo Jima was sewn at the flag shop at Mare island.

It is "VALLEY JOE" as we called it.. I attended the Navy Nuclear Power basic school there for 7 months in 1964.. They were building SSBN nuc subs there from Keel to commissioning... Daniel Boone, don't recall the hull #, was commissioned there about the time I was there...

I went back in 1979 for the decommissioning of the USS Nautilus ( crew member 1969-71). Boy were things different from '64- '79...

Hope I never have to go back to that communist state....
JIM...................

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SWCA # L-1911

Found it. This is not my gun but is really interesting because it is one of the pre-Victory revolvers marked USNCPC on the back strap.

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Kevin Williams SWCA1649 HF208

Neat Victory and holster, Kevin.

Frank, you are correct. The NSD was opened in 1941 on land obtained from the City of Oakland. The Navy Yard at Mare Island is further north in the SF Bay area and is indeed located at Vallejo.

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Charlie Flick
SWCA 729 HF 215