Post Your WWI and WWII Firearms

[sipowicz]

1943 Ithaca.

 

[DWL]

I have been watching this thread since it started. There are some really cool collections out there. Great Job! So, I thought I'd add mine...

WWI
Colt M1909 Ok, technically not WWI.
Colt M1917
Smith & Wesson M1917
British Webley Mk IV, has been shaved for .45acp.
Remington P17
Springfield Armory 1903 Mark 1 Dated Nov '18. Has all the correct Mark 1 parts. Looks to be original.

 

[DWL]

Here are the WWII firearms

Mosin Nagant
Schmidt Rubin straight pull. Yes, the Swiss were neutral But it's from the time period.
Springfield M1 Grand May 1945 CMP rifle
Smith Crona 03A3 1943 appears to be never rebuilt.
Enfield #4 MK 1 1942 numbers matching
Remington Rand 1911A1 was sent to Springfield Armory and converted to a National Match pistol.
Mauser HSc WAa135 with plastic/bakelite grip panels, numbers matching
Mauser HSc Eagle F Late war production for the Police, numbers matching
Walther PP Nazi marked. numbers matching

 

[Frank46]

I mentioned in a previous post that i had a 1943 Ithaca 1911A1
then a 1943 Garand and a 1943 Springfield 1903A3 and today I looked up my Saginaw SG M1 carbine and it too was made in 1943. That's four U.S. military firearms that were bought in different shops and in one case a different state and all made in 1943. And Bushmaster 1313 posted a pic of his 1943 1911A1 and mine 1911A1 is 6800 serial numbers below his. Go figure. And the Garand and M1 carbine are blue sky imports from South Korea. Truly boggles the mind. Frank

 

[Harkrader]

WOW! What GREAT collections or assemblies!
Herewith, mine.
This is a 1911 dated to 1918. It is original blue, and shows no armory markings.

 

[Harkrader]

A 1911A1 dated to 1942. From Vietnam.

 

[Harkrader]

Colt Model of 1917. I think it dates to 1920.

 

[Harkrader]

WWII Thompson M1A1 with 1927 lower. I assembled it that way because that was how I carried one in Vietnam.

 

[Harkrader]

Colt-made 1921 - 1928 Navy Overstamp. Marked "U.S. Navy"


I have a M1 Garand, currently in the hands of one of our children.
And a Short Magazine Lee Enfield which I must have loaned to someone because it isn't in my safe and I don't have a pic.

 

[raisedin99]

One a navy marked, the rest US property. None of the grips number match.

terry

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[Cyrano]

OU 182: That thing at the bottom of the strap on the CZ27 holster is the German insigna for a 2d Lieutenant.

 

[OU 812]

They were both brought back by an uncle who has passed away he was a paratrooper. Don't know much about them other then they have the Nazi stamp on some of the parts. P38 is numbers matching with the correct holster. Made in 43 by Mauser.

So the star thing is a 2d Lieutenant in the German army?

Any idea whats the other thing?

 

[Cyrano]

We have the German Air Force Air Defense School here at Fort Bliss; sometimes I see officers in uniform. One of those things is a second Lieutenant, two is a first Lieutenant, and three is a Captain. Don't know what the other thing is; looks like a pair of wings; perhaps the officer was in the Luftwaffe.

 

[bmcgilvray]

U.S. arms

World War I

Rock Island Arsenal Model 1903 w/ serial number corresponding to barrel date of 8-13.


Model 1917 Enfield, Eddystone dated 9-18


Colt Model 1911


Model 1917 Colt .45


Model 1917 Smith & Wesson .45


World War II

Model 1903-A3 Smith Corona 12-42


M1 6-44


M1 Carbine Underwood 10-43


Model 1911-A1 Remington Rand


Colt Commando and Smith & Wesson Victory Model

 

[Absalom]

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So the star thing is a 2d Lieutenant in the German army?

Any idea whats the other thing?

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The star is simply a "Dienstgradstern", a part of rank insignia which are composed of however many components are needed to represent the rank, as Cyrano says. On field uniforms nowadays, they're sewn, not metal.

But that's the post-war German army. The Wehrmacht used very similar stars in their insignia. The picture below shows them in shoulder tabs for an Oberfeldwebel ( ~ First Sgt.).

The "bird" comes off the "Kragenspiegel" (collar insignia) of a Third Reich Luftwaffe soldier. See picture.

Since it's a war-time bring-back if I understand correctly, my suspicion would be that whoever captured that gun and holster took the star and the wings as a random souvenir off the uniform of some Germans who had no further use for it. No German would decorate a holster like that.

 

[OU 812]

Thanks Absalom

I really had no idea what they were, the inside of the holster has a name of a person and a name of a town. Interesting but my uncle did not talk about any of this.

Thanks again


Roland was his name, no idea who Paul is or was?

 

[digi-shots]

Here's an early one... S&W No. 2 Army.. a WWII bringback:

 

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[diyj98]

They were both brought back by an uncle who has passed away he was a paratrooper. Don't know much about them other then they have the Nazi stamp on some of the parts. P38 is numbers matching with the correct holster. Made in 43 by Mauser.

So the star thing is a 2d Lieutenant in the German army?

Any idea whats the other thing?

EDITED: I didn't see Absalom beat me to the punch!

The top pin is gull used for luftwaffe rank on collar boards. The bottom pin is a rank pip used on shoulder boards. The number of gulls or pips signified the rank. They were added after capture or post war. They would have never been placed on the holster by a German solider.