Folding Stock on Ebay and some cool pictures

Noticed this MIAI stock on Ebay today.
Question to the guys more familiar with these........
Does the OI marking in the channel look correct?
I can see it's been sanded fairly hard but looks pretty good overall.
Looks to possibly have 2 pins in it. 1 on the side and 1 in the top left rail forward of the recoil plate. (You have to click on the photo link the seller provides to see the pin on the top left rail)

RARE ORIGINAL M1 CARBINE PARATROOPER FOLDING STOCK - eBay (item 330406023831 end time Feb-24-10 17:47:34 PST)

Also offered by this same seller is a group of WWII pictures.....

WWII NAMED GROUPING PHOTO COLLECTION 330+ UTAH BEACH++ - eBay (item 330405365068 end time Feb-22-10 16:47:24 PST)

Look at the bottom row of pictures. The 3rd from the left shows a small german tracked carrier......
Does anyone else recall when we were covering Audie Murphy that men from his company spoke of playing with some of these?
I may be mistaken but I swear that while looking up info for that post, I came across these. First I had ever seen of them.
What were they for?
Actual transport or for the delusion of on the ground tanks?

tia,
Charlie-painter777

Charlie, that para looks good to me. Why can't I seem to find these estate sales? I wonder if these are the guys from "The History Channel" American Pickers?.....Frank

Charlie,

I believe the small tracked vehicle is one of the remote control mines the Germans had by the time of D-day.

i seen one of these last year, but i think it was US made. it was on display at the Aberdeen ordanance museum

There German- they made both electric and gas versons for carring Mines, I have a book that show a US soldier next to a pile of them(like 300 of them) must have been very interresting machines-Roger

I found where Audie Murphy and his men fooled around with them.
See picture of a Boogie and read page 10 (about 1/2 way down).
Murphy and his men offered a Beer Cooling service for a swap towards getting a few mini tanks for themselves. They'd load beer on one and track it up into the high grounds to cool a few down.

http://www.audiemurphy.com/newslette...amrf_news2.pdf

Charlie-painter777

I see those pictures sold for $585.51
WWII NAMED GROUPING PHOTO COLLECTION 330+ UTAH BEACH++ - eBay (item 330405365068 end time Feb-22-10 16:47:24 PST)

Here's a reproduction picture of one for sale..............

WWII B&W Photo Goliath Utah Beach D-Day WW2 US Navy - eBay (item 350243017908 end time Mar-19-10 15:59:03 PDT)

I see this seller calls it a 'Goliath'.
You have to admit one of these running around the back forty would be pretty cool !

Charlie-painter777

Charlie, I agree those things are cool... and its cool to look back at 65 years later, but those things remind me of what's going on now....

I would hate to see those delivering IED's at night in the middle of a forward operating base or rolling out in the middle of a convoy in a roadway.

To put all of our WWII collecting into prespective, there are somethings from WWII that were even more deadlier then than what we use now. We no longer have 16" battleship shells - the largest is 5" for any nation. The "big" guns of the artillery now are only 155mm (russias have a little bigger one) where some nations in WWII had HUGE railway guns. While we do use precission missles now, in WWII we would just bomb the hell out of a whole town with thousands of pounds of bombs... Guess those things would be just as deadly now if used in the right situation...

May Almighty God protect the Marines on the offensive in Afghanistan... remember them in your prayers...

Sorry, I just got a weird chill running down my back when I saw those things...

charlie,

from what i can see, that stock looks right. i just wish i could see the bottom of the pistol grip better, to check the hinge plate.

also: might want to ask for better pictures of the left-side milling marks, even though they do look correct.

Charlie The milling in the stock and IO look like mine, the inside of the buttplate struck me a little funny the pinwheel is deformed or something.
The picture grouping was awesome, and i think the pickers show people are in IOWA so maybe thats not them.