Inland

[Mikey51]

As it is today, #99714. Note rear site. Mike.

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[NRA]

looks like a very nice early one

[22mike]

Just what I wanted !!!! Price ???

[Hercules Powder]

Mike, that’s slick, at least if I'm looking at right. The notch on the top of the short leaf is about the same height as the hole in the tall leaf. You don't have to flip the leaf for the long shots, just sight through the notch.

[painter777]

Mike,
My Father served 2 tours on the Philippines Islands. He would say as a GI first and heavy equipment operator second. He said it was very common to see rear sight blades knotched. He agreed they gave them better sighting with the low light of jungle, heavy rain and night conditions.
Also said it was common to have guys bending the outer ears off the frt sights until they broke off for the same reason.
I remember he preferred these sights this way as they reminded him more of gun sights back home they were used to.
I have his WRA carbine he snuck home with the help of a Australian Radio Man. Long story I'll tell you about later.
My Father didn't mess with his sights as he rarely carried his carbine. Most of his time was spent clearing wreckage and grading for radio towers (Thats how he met the Aussie) so he carried his side arm.

I've seen other legit carbines from service in the pacific with similiar cut sights like yours.
Sometimes just the rear, sometimes just the front and some both.
Can't say it couldn't have happened in the ETO but known bringbacks I've encountered like this example seem to be more from the PTO.

While I'm at it a picture of my Father,
Cheers Mate,
Charlie

[Mikey51]

Because of what I'm seeing and hearing Charlie, I'm starting to think someone shipped a heap of 5 digits to the PTO. Just a suspicion at this stage ! It's a real shame most of the written shipping records no longer exist. Something for me to think about though. Mike.

[usgicollector]

Here is my 522k Inland same notch
I know member dbarn has a Rock-Ola with a modified rear sight, and I have a SP and another Inland with the front sight missing the ears only.

[firstflabn]

A tantalizing question, as always, Mike. But you need to take a statistics course to understand the limits of data interpretation. Even if your sample was random, it's almost certain you don't have nearly enough data to draw a valid inference. No matter how hard you strain when driving on a dark road on a rainy night, there's a physical limit on how far your eyes can see.

Looking at gross numbers, about 6% of the entire army was in the Pacific in January 1943; about one third of those overseas on that date were in the Pacific. The army in North Africa had about 50% more troops than the Pacific in that period. Lacking a document establishing priorities, all you are left with is a few scattered data points that could be explained away by chance.

The best hope for developing even a general idea is if the stateside ordnance depots showed in/out info on individual line items. And this would only take care of weapons shipped direct to the field - not troops carrying previously issued weapons with them to the ports of embarkation. If you'd like to finance my trip to College Park to look into this question, I'd be happy to give you a full report.

[DaveHH]

Things like this tend to be in groups caused by people following examples they've seen. If there were a lot of 5 digit Inlands within that sight mod, it would be interesting.

[Mikey51]

Thanks for your comments guys, I got to thinking about missing blocks, (or large numbers of S/Ns within a block), because of past posts about the unusual lack of first block STD's found. Maybe I'm going in the wrong direction. It's a good hunt anyway !. Mike.