Pig Hunter
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Does anybody remember a series called " Garrison's Guerillas" on ABC? Kind of a watered down Dirty Dozen. One of the characters carried a switchblade he kept stropping on a leather band on his wrist.
Combat tv series question
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Another child of Combat, 12 O'clock high, and all the other shows. I'm often disappointed when I go back and watch TV from that era, but I think Combat holds up well. I've got the DVD set and like it just as much now as I did then.
I enjoyed the few episodes of Combat that I saw as a kid. However my dad would usually change the channel with the explanation "that wasn't my war." I tried to watch the reruns but I kept wanting to shout "Stop Bunching UP!!. " My Brother-in-law said that when he was laid up in a hospital in SVN they would watch Combat trying to figure out what they had done wrong.
When Black Sheep Squadron came out dad and I would watch together and I found his comments interesting. One that struck me was "Too bad they could not find actors the correct age." When I asked what he meant he said that bu the end of the war he was 23 years old and the oldest surviving air crewman in his squadron.
When Black Sheep Squadron came out dad and I would watch together and I found his comments interesting. One that struck me was "Too bad they could not find actors the correct age." When I asked what he meant he said that bu the end of the war he was 23 years old and the oldest surviving air crewman in his squadron.
Faulkner
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Not exactly accurate. There were eleven primary contractors that manufactured M1 carbines. One of the contractors, Winchester, started using the Type III barrel band with bayonet lug on production carbines in November 1944 and there is photographic evidence that a few made it into the field in the later stages of WWII in both Europe and the Pacific.
Two other manufacturers produced the Type III barrel band (Inland Division of General Motors, and Quality Hardware & Machine Corp.) but none are believed to have made it to production guns before the end of the war.
After the war, most M1 carbines were updated with the latest production components before being put back in service or long term storage. This included the Type III barrel band with bayonet lug.
DWalt
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It's sort of a separate issue, but I wonder why it was felt that a bayonet was needed on a .30 M1 Carbine? The major postwar upgrdes made to the WWII carbines were the addition of the bayonet lug, the improved adjustable rear sight, and the rotating safety lever. Most stocks were also replaced with the style which could be used with the M2 full auto mechanism.
Faulkner
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Believe it or not, the field requested it. A bayonet was not part of the original specifications for the light rifle project that became the M1 carbine. Although the wisdom of equipping the M1 carbine with a bayonet can be debated, the services nevertheless wished to have this feature added.
bulletslap
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My favorite Army show was Sgt Bilko.
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