Gas trap book

[cgroc09]

Pretty neat, I'll have to look to see if any of my numbered triggers are like that.

Bodyman is right, this is wayyyy... addictive.

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[jarrodeu]

Bodyman is right, this is wayyyy... addictive.
https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...SAM_1716-1.jpg

Wow! Are those original or restored? Very impressive either way!

Jarrod

[cgroc09]

restorations or at least as close as I can get.



future projects

[Bodyman]

Bodyman is right, this is wayyyy... addictive.

Very nice little selection there - and THAT must be where all the early parts have been going! (grin)

Pyle is dangerous because he will tell you what you need - darned near pry the money out of your wallet ... The cool part is that you can start with just one part - heck, you may already have one on a rifle that you own - flat sight cover with numbers on it, or an early trigger housing, they were all good parts for rebuilds so they ended up everywhere (I got a very nice no pad trigger housing from a beat up Dane return! (pictured below)). Then you can start watching for deals here and there and with a little luck, over time you will all of a sudden have most of the smaller easy parts in one little pile. Here is my gastrap 'kit', and I do lay the blame squarely at Billy Pyle's feet - without his book, I wouldn't have known I needed ANY of this (grin).



Hey, one of yours is 1584 - I have receiver 1591! I was thinking about one of those new gastrap kits - they look really nice and maybe I could actually shoot it! Nowadays, there just always seems to be a different need for the money, ya know ...

Anyway, here is another old favorite early pic back at ya - boy, there is just something about them early numbered ones;

[cgroc09]

VERY NICE....... I need that op rod for this one.







Hey Bodyman, pm sent

[Harlan (Deceased)]

VERY NICE....... I need that op rod for this one.

Hey Bodyman, pm sent

I just looked through your photos and you have an incredible collection cgroc09!

Bill, please excuse me for going off topic about Gas trap books, but I thought cpro09 and possibly others might be interested in some books about the U.S. M1 helmet of WWII.

cgroc09, in one of your photos you have a 79th Division medic M1 helmet in your display.
Is your helmet an original WWII M1 painted helmet? There isn't enough detail in the photo to tell very much but it looks good.



I collected M1 helmets for a while and I've done quite a bit of research on them. I remembered seeing an original example of a 79th Div helmet in one of my books titled 'PAINTED STEEL' -



Just as a small bit of history, none of the American Medic helmets in WWII were standardized with an official painting and they differed from unit to unit and even to individual.
(No markings on any US helmets in WWII were 'official standard' and they ranged from looking professionally painted with stencils to being crudely applied with a sock)

The U.S. medics first noticed that German medics in north Africa were wearing red cross arm bands, smocks with a cross, and they painted red crosses on their helmets, so they started marking their helmets the same way hoping the German soldiers would honor their medic status. By the time of the Sicily landings many U.S. medics had their M1 helmets painted with a wide variety of red cross markings. From what I've read, the consensus is that in combat many Germans did honor the medic markings.

The U.S. medics in the Pacific Theater also began to paint red crosses on their helmets, but the Japanese didn't honor the markings at all. It became clear that any markings at all on a helmet made them a preferred target by the Japanese so most US soldiers removed or covered up all medic, unit and rank markings from their helmets.

Below are three interesting books covering lots of details about M1 helmets and their history, along with details about collecting them and how to spot reproductions and fakes.
(Like everything else of any value, faked U.S. helmets are a big problem now too)

cgroc09 -
If your helmet/liner is authentic, or if you have any questions about it please feel free to send me a PM and I can give you some details of what to look for.

~ Harlan