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Where are these rifles now?
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Where are these rifles now?
Really fine photos. Love that bayonet. Stick three at a time?
Love the warning sign on the grenade practice....You will only make one mistake
Interesting photos - one seems to be an all white unit, and the other all black.
What's up with that?
Is that just by chance, or on purpose?
Milsurp in Oz,.. Up until the 1950s the U.S. Armed Forces were segregated. Integration started during the Korean war.
They had all black units...deliberately. After de-seg there was still foot dragging at integration.
Oh,... Ok,.... I thought that all ended with the Civil War.
Learn something new each day.
Thanks.
No, it was actually Truman de-seg'd I think... Executive Order 9981 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia That's WIKI, I know it may not be completely correct.
Thanks for sharing the photos!
My Dad was in the CB's before he became a squid, CPO Electrician, in the Navy Sub service and taught the Sub Electrical school in Groton Conn. in mid 60's.
He told me he used 1917's in the CB's.
I still have his old 1917, but not the issue one he had in the CB's. Still a very sweet shooter.
Chuck