Winter GCA Journal

[Bob Seijas]

Putting the finishing touches on the Winter issue, but probably still a couple of weeks from the printer. However, some good stuff in this one... the Featured Rifle is a 1.3 SA picked up by a farmer in the Hurtgen Forest. The author is a Dutch collector who specializes in battlefield pick-ups and other left-behinds, like an M1 Carbine that fell off a truck in Holland! Lots of other neat stuff, too. You will like this one.

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[Sarge1998]

Sir, I like all of them.

[Doco overboard]

Looking forward to it

[can14&]

Have you ever done any stories on the m1 garand in Canadian Military Service?

[Bob Seijas]

Yes, a 5-page feature, pretty much the full story, in the Spring 2016 issue. Author is Colin Stevens who lives in BC and served. Photo is Pte. J.B. Kelly, 1CPB, at Greven, Germany
March-April 1945. Cdn Army photo
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[browningautorifle]

Author is Colin Stevens

Also a member here under Seaforth72...

[can14&]

My uncle was a radio tech on F86, Cf100, Voodo jets. He had a m1 carbine issued while in europe

[browningautorifle]

He had a m1 carbine issued while in europe

What year would that have been then? I know the guys that were in at the change from .303 to 7.62 had US rifles issued at times and odd locations to be able to draw ammo through the US system. This would have been between '56 and "60 roughly...Europe, when down Stateside doing the Nuclear training...

[Bob Seijas]

Final corrections made today... pdfs sent to the authors and approved by them... it will go to the printer today but who knows how much work he will do over the holiday weekend. In any even, some should be in the mail by the end of next week.

[can14&]

He was sent to Colorado to do nuke stuff and then he was in the Canadian nuke program after Europe.
He thought we should have built our own! Since we have the material and know how to do it since 1945. The UK
got it from us, so did most of the people who bought can du reactors, bomb grade product..Did a term paper on
it back when.