Carbine bayonets inWWII

[karl schmidt]

The photos are from the National Archives still photo branch in College park Maryland.
The quality isn't the best - the rules prohibit high res scans of these particular photos so I had to photo them on a copy stand. They are official signal corps photos.

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[imarangemaster]

Everyone agrees that they were common on Okinawa. Some of the Army AGF on Iwo had them in March 1945, though my dad, who went ashore with the advance party with Marines in February on D-Day+7 had an Inland with no bayonet lug, but a Type II rear sight.

[Bill Hollinger]

Here, this may help also.

Jeeps carrying African American soldiers pass through a muddy area in Ryukyu Islands, Japan.
And:


Ha Ha Ha!!!

[jimb16]

Bayonets were issue well in advance of the issuance of carbines with the type 3 band. The question has never been "were the bayonets issued?", but whether or not the bayonet lug reached the combat zones. So far I've seen two pictures that say yes. One was a guard on Iwo and the other was an army trooper in the back of a jeep during the spring rains on Okinawa.

[Bill Hollinger]

Jim, would that have been the video I posted in the link above? It is pretty clear that the carbine has the lug.

[jimb16]

The film was one of the two I was referencing. I posted a still of it a few years back. There is another pic of a guard on Iwo with a ditched B-29 in the background that shows the carbine with the bayonet actually mounted.

[imarangemaster]

I have seen pics before of Army troops fighting on Okinawa that have Carbines with lugs and bayonets. Besides seeing a few in books, I found some awhile back google image search for Okinawa WW2, etc.

[Aragorn243]

I was just at a museum today that had an example of a carbine with bayonet attached. It was the American Military Edged Weaponry Museum in Intercourse PA.

[SKIPH]

Hey Gang! Bruce Canfield's book" US Infantry Weapons of WW2 " has a pic on page 25 of troops from the 194th Glider Regt shaving their heads w/ the new M4 Bayonet-Knives, just prior to the drop across the Rhine in 1945. Did not see any photos of type 3 bands on carbines though. SKIP

[Bill Hollinger]

Jim,