Navy Seabees armed with 1917's

[MOS-45B]

https://www.flickr.com/photos/usnavy...57629255286642

Where are these rifles now?

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[25-5]

Really fine photos. Love that bayonet. Stick three at a time?

[CINDERS]

Love the warning sign on the grenade practice....You will only make one mistake

[MilSurp in Oz]

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?

[Tom in N.J.]

Milsurp in Oz,.. Up until the 1950s the U.S. Armed Forces were segregated. Integration started during the Korean war.

[browningautorifle]

They had all black units...deliberately. After de-seg there was still foot dragging at integration.

[MilSurp in Oz]

Oh,... Ok,.... I thought that all ended with the Civil War.
Learn something new each day.
Thanks.

[browningautorifle]

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.

[03clyde]

Thanks for sharing the photos!

[catman]

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