Inland M1 Carbin - 6/44 D-Day

[Bruce McAskill]

Yes they did as they were not medical personnel per say. He was told it was for guard duty. He was in a normal hospital with a room he shared with another orderly. He put the carbine in his locker and it stayed there untouched. When they were told they were going home that they had one hour to pack and get all of their equipment out to the trucks to take them to the ship heading home. He forgot all about the carbine being in the bottom of his foot locker and packed all his gear in it and it went home with him. When he got to his home he found it and was afraid he would get charged with stealing it so he hid it under his cellar stairs where it stayed for 38 years. When my brother in-law bought it from his widow he got the carbine, the pouch with two magazines in it, the box of PC 43 head stamped ammo with 35 rounds in it and a baby food jar with the missing 15 rounds in that all for $25. That was all he had with him and all she wanted as she did not want it around. Of course I had to pay a lot more for it then that. But that was one exceptional carbine. As new unfired other then at Winchester and a five digit serial number.