WWII Bayonets, 03's and USMC Snipers

**TDH** · 05-21-2009 10:37 AM

Jim and John I have found both of you fine gentle men to be fountains of information and really enjoy your posts. thank you

**Highly Recommended** · 05-21-2009 10:37 AM

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**TDH** · 05-21-2009 10:38 AM

And Rick the Librarian icon

as well.

**Jim Tarleton** · 05-21-2009 11:24 PM

Thank you sir. I enjoy researching the old girls, particularly when it applies to AEF Marines. John is about 100 years ahead of me.

Jim

**John Beard** · 05-21-2009 11:48 PM

Originally Posted by Rick the Librarian

Maybe wanting eggs in my beer, but any idea what the percentage of early Remington M1903s used by the Marines might have been?

I have no information on Marine usage of Remington M1903's.

I just know that they got some.

J.B.

**TDH** · 05-22-2009 10:48 AM

Originally Posted by Jim Tarleton

Thank you sir. I enjoy researching the old girls, particularly when it applies to AEF Marines. John is about 100 years ahead of me.

Jim

You are more than welcome but please I am not a SIR. I was only a Sargent

there is nothing on my collar so you don't have to salute me

I work for a living

My parents were married

and Mother didn't bark at the moon

Just my strange sense of humor at work.

When Injustice becomes law
rebellion becomes duty
Thomas Paine

**Jim Tarleton** · 05-22-2009 01:05 PM

I was a Corporal.

**Joe P** · 05-22-2009 05:38 PM

Howdy folks. Happy Memorial Day to one and all. I know a retired Marine who lives in N.C. He joined the USMC sometime in 1940, and retired in 1973. He had a very busy life. He told me that on his first campaign (Guadalcanal), he had been issued an '03, but soon after making it ashore, he acquired a BAR. He didn't remember any more than that.

Semper Fi,
Joe P.

**TDH** · 05-23-2009 01:12 AM

Originally Posted by Jim Tarleton

I was a Corporal.

If I remember right your corporal was an E4 just like the Air Force buck Sgt.

**Jim Tarleton** · 05-23-2009 08:36 AM

Correct.

Jim

**Tom Jackson** · 05-27-2009 11:32 PM

The tank is an M2A4 Light Tank. It was the predecessor of the M3 Light Tank series. The British icon

named the M3-M5 Light Tanks "General Stuart" after Confederate General J.E.B. Stuart. The M2A4, like the M3, had a four man crew and mounted a 37MM cannon and several .30 cal. machine guns. The Marines had several M2A4 Light Tanks on Guadalcanal along with their M3 Tanks. The Marines first used the M4 Sherman on Tarawa in November 1943.

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