Did I do Ok or not Ok??

[painter777]

D Driver,
Is it me?
Or am I seeing a Underwood type bombshell stamp on the rear tang?
Expand his 2nd picture to full size.

Serial number will be interesting.

Welcome JasonA,

Cheers,
Charlie-Painter777

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[deldriver]

D Driver,
Is it me?
Or am I seeing a Underwood type bombshell stamp on the rear tang?
Expand his 2nd picture to full size.

Serial number will be interesting.

Welcome JasonA,

Cheers,
Charlie-Painter777

I do see what looks like the remnants of an Underwood flaming bomb (just right of center and towards the top). However, I can't get the clearest monitor resolution to say with 100 percent certainly that what it is. Hopefully someone else with a better monitor can verify that's it a flaming UEF bomb. I will say that the milling of the heal looks very Winchester to me. I actually pulled out an Underwood 2.85 and a Winchester 6.56 and compared the two. Something does look weird to me though...I just can't say with enough certainty of exactly what it may or may not be. If I had to venture a guess on the serial it looks like a 5.74, but will have to wait for the OP to verify.

[JasonA]

SN is 5743XXX.

[deldriver]

SN is 5743XXX.

Okay, my eyes must not be as bad as I thought then! Anyway, I have a 5.74 Winchester too. Our guns may have had their serial numbers stamped on the same day in fact. Clearly there would be no UEF ordnance bomb on heal if it's a Winchester receiver, so that can be put away I'm pretty sure. Can you do a closeup of the left side of the barrel band? I am just making sure it's the correct one or trying to at least. Winchester was having some manufacturing issue during the time our carbines were produced. It's nice to see some of them still around.

[JimF4M1s (Deceased)]

I have a 5.74 Winchester too. Our guns may have had their serial numbers stamped on the same day in fact.

From a reference, the last Winchester number applied to a receiver for the day.

July 12 1944................5,742,670
July 13 1944................5,743,644
July 15 1944................5,745,805