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Navy Seabees armed with 1917's
https://www.flickr.com/photos/usnavy...57629255286642
Where are these rifles now?
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04-27-2014 12:59 PM
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Really fine photos. Love that bayonet. Stick three at a time?
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Love the warning sign on the grenade practice....You will only make one mistake
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Interesting photos - one seems to be an all white unit, and the other all black.
What's up with that?
Is that just by chance, or on purpose?
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Milsurp in Oz,.. Up until the 1950s the U.S. Armed Forces were segregated. Integration started during the Korean war.
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They had all black units...deliberately. After de-seg there was still foot dragging at integration.
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Oh,... Ok,.... I thought that all ended with the Civil War.
Learn something new each day.
Thanks.
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No, it was actually Truman de-seg'd I think... Executive Order 9981 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia That's WIKI, I know it may not be completely correct.
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Thanks for sharing the photos!
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My Dad was in the CB's before he became a squid, CPO Electrician, in the Navy Sub service and taught the Sub Electrical school in Groton Conn. in mid 60's.
He told me he used 1917's in the CB's.
I still have his old 1917, but not the issue one he had in the CB's. Still a very sweet shooter.
Chuck