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Mark, is it known where the picture is taken, please? I assume the 2 men in the back of the Jeep are resistance fighters?
Love the position of our favorite carbine rack. Normally those were across the hood or someplace flat.
The universal rack mounts to two brackets on the windshield on jeeps. They mount on the running board on the larger equipment. There were two versions: with and without canvas cover. The canvas covered model was used on the trucks where the rifle would be outside in the elements. They were not on jeeps until early 1943 with the windshield height was increased and the two brackets added in production. This type of mounting suggests this is an early (before about May 1943) and therefore didn't have the brackets. Field expediency :) The first racks were designed for the M1 rifle and M1 carbine. With the addition of a "V" shaped cross piece the M1 sub-machine gun could be stored in it. Note the tope photo does not have the "V" but the canvas covered one does.
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No notes on that one - but your assumption is very likely correct IMHOQuote:
Originally Posted by Flying10uk
Whatever is he going to do with the anvil???
He's gonna beat the truth to pieces. Did you notice that it is a press jeep?
Bob
Yes I did, that marking for photo is interesting too...Quote:
Originally Posted by Bob Womack
Original pic at the top of the thread is that a 15 or 20 round mag just visible with the trigger & guard next to the drivers left leg
Only 15. They trialed a 25 rd mag initially but it was not accepted. The military never made, and I've never even heard of a 20 rd mag for those.Quote:
Originally Posted by CINDERS
Were U.S. War correspondents ever armed in WW2 as a gun rack is being fitted to a press Jeep? I have never heard of British War correspondents being armed although I believe that they were technically members of the armed forces in case of capture and so would be treated as P.O.W., not as a spy.
War Correspondents as such were and are civilians and hence non-combatants. Ernie Pyle and Edward Ward (7th Viscount of Bangor) of WWII fame are two examples. Today's version are the blue helmet, blue body armour mob you see on the nightly news.
The jeep most likely belongs to an army photographic unit. Army Combat Photographers were serving soldiers.
Attachment 74209Here ya go BAR pic of one with 4 x 20 round mags with the 30 round one installed in the rifle.
Those are 15's...Quote:
Originally Posted by CINDERS
I took the pic off a gun site advertising them as 20's could they be an aftermarket affair
Here Jim follow this link and then click view page here's a copy of the add they had for the sale,
5 unused M1 Carbine 20 round magazines
This is a group of 5 (you get all 5) M1 Carbine magazines that are unused. All five are still in the red cellophane wrapping. I believe all 5 are marked "UI". I will not ship to California, DC, Chicago or anywhere not allowed.
This is a group of 5 (you get all 5) M1 Carbine magazines that are unused. All five are still in the red cellophane wrapping. I believe all 5 are marked UI.
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I understand that...but they didn't make them. The seller is wrong, perhaps his forte is egg frying and he sells guns as a sideline... I just looked at them, they're just standard NOS mags. Not like cut down AR mags these days...or the 5 rd mags they did for carbine.Quote:
Originally Posted by CINDERS
Ernest Hemingway went around covering the war in Europe heavily armed and he loved sniping at the retreating Germans. He is very lucky he was never captured because by rights he could've been summarily executed.
Dig up the old movie "84 Charlie Mopic" it's excellent.
It interesting all of the Jerry cans in the back of the Jeep. Probably out getting stuff done with trading material. It's not uncommon to see an anvil in an Ordnance unit. Probably used to make the bracket for welding the gun rack to the Jeep's fender.
--fjruple
Aftermarket 30
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Aftermarket 20
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Yes, that's not what those others are though. By "They", I mean Govt because those clearly are... I did say they aren't cut down(like the AR mags)because there's no arctuate profile... Didn't think this would turn into something.