Rifles! Man, I wish I could sort through a pile like this... NON War Time of course. New Guinea in 1943
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Rifles! Man, I wish I could sort through a pile like this... NON War Time of course. New Guinea in 1943
https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...6442C600-1.jpg
Every one a story, and most of them tragic.
(Battlefield salvage)
Can't help but think of those who carried them.
The one in the upper left shows a hack in the stock.
Maybe hand to hand ?
Is it all 1903's and BARs guys?
Should have bought Springfield Sporters.Quote:
Originally Posted by usabaker
I actually moaned when I saw that pile. :super:
Way over on the left is something standing in the background...Jap maybe? Nambu LMG?
I want to say Bren gun with that dial on the side of it.Quote:
Originally Posted by browningautorifle
im going to say it might be a ZB 26, probably a Chinese capture that the Japanese then put into service. It looks like the grip has been broken off. The rear of the receiver its stepped like the ZB and is not squared off with the tube protruding out the back of the receiver like the type 96 & 99. The drum sight is further forward ( or so it seems) than on a Bren gun and the stock looks different.Quote:
Originally Posted by browningautorifle
funny how some of the captured japanese combat footage some times shows Japanese using BARs and some of the footage from china or singapore shows the Japanese running around with SMLEs.
Anyone interested in battlefield salvage ought to read Ordnance Went Up Front by Roy F. Dunlap.
These might also be of interest:
HD Stock Video Footage - United States 3rd Marine Division armorers repair rifles inside tents on Iwo Jima, during World War II.
HD Stock Video Footage - U.S. Marine Corps of 3rd Infantry Division Marines repair rifles at Ordnance small arms repair set up in Iwo Jima, Japan.
Agreed, I have it and went to some lengths to get it. His post-war books on gunsmithing are classics too.
As for those videos, it's a little hard to tell what's going on, but it appears there was an informal test fire on the way in, then an oil/solvent bath, then stacked either for later attention or shipping out to somewhere else. With the smoking going on you have wonder what the solvent in the buckets on the table was!
Or perhaps a fast moving shell fragment......Quote:
Originally Posted by painter777
That seems to be correct from what I can find too...ZB 26...Quote:
Originally Posted by Brewer