Carbines and More... Detroit July 1967

[painter777]

Police officers and National Guardsmen prepare to search an African American man under suspicion of looting carrying a concealed weapon (a knife in his back pocket), Detroit, Michigan.





On this link below, troll through the pictures. Pictures of interest listed start on page 3, but all pages are interesting:
26019 Tracked PC/MG and Carbine
26024 300% increased,shows I cut stock carried by GI in the street, with 2 GI's on his left
26028
35812 'Machine Gun' What Make?

LINK: Walter P. Reuther Library Detroit's 1967 Civil Unrest

My Father had a big job going in downtown at this time with a lot of heavy equipment there. We drove up to check on the equipment but was stopped at a check point. I was young but could remember seeing the smoke rise as we drove north to get there from our home in the Downriver area. After things settled down he found in a trash dumpster boxes of M1 carbine mags that had been thrown away. Later he found out a National Guard Unit had been stationed near there in a school and believed they had discarded them. We had tickets to see the Tigers play the Orioles, but that game was cancelled/rescheduled. We never went, it would have been my first time seeing them play. The next year-68 the Tigers won the series.
I've read where live ammo was taken away from the 82nd and 101 because of too many shooting incidents, blanks and tracers were issued instead.

CH-P777