Poyers' '03 Springfield Book

[Jim Tarleton]

I have an A3 stock with a large Chinese brand on the outside of the buttstock, which according to the Chinese Embassy personnel means "People's Army". What makes the stock unusual is that it is a scant stock with an A4 bolt cutout. No other cartouches are present. Which Chinese Army did we lend rifles? The Nationalists?

Jim

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[Kirk]

I have an A3 stock with a large Chinese brand on the outside of the buttstock, which according to the Chinese Embassy personnel means "People's Army". What makes the stock unusual is that it is a scant stock with an A4 bolt cutout. No other cartouches are present. Which Chinese Army did we lend rifles? The Nationalists?

Jim

Jim:

It would have been the Nationalists . . . first. The ChiComs just inherited everything.

I read the biography of one GI who'd fought in China during WWII and then in Korea. He said that one day he was watching a column of North Korean POWs pass when he recognized a Chinese soldier whom he'd worked with in WWII. He called out to him and then asked him why he'd thrown in with the ChiComs. The soldier shrugged his shoulders & replied "they feed me".