The M1 carbine in french

[Greg O]

Patrick: My high school French is sadly outdated. Would you kindly interpret both either here or with a PM on the above?

Merci mon ami,

Greg O

Vous remercier... J'étais juste curieux s'ils avaient changé la nomenclature, qu'ils semblent ne pas avoir fait si. Si vous décidez de scruter le livre, je serais intéressé dans une copie, tout vous pouvez dire probablement que je recueille des armes à feu françaises et bourre.
Patrick

[Harlan (Deceased)]

Patrick: My high school French is sadly outdated. Would you kindly interpret both either here or with a PM on the above?

Merci mon ami,

Greg O

Greg,

It says something like:

"Thank you… I was just curious to know if they had changed the nomenclature, which they apparently did not do. If you decide to look at the book, I would be interested in a copy, you probably can tell that I collect french firearms and munitions"

[kelt]

Greg,

It says something like:

Thank you… I was just curious to know if they had changed the nomenclature, which they apparently did not do. If you decide to look at the book, I would be interested in a copy, you probably can tell that I collect french firearms and munitions"

Cafdfw,

It's " if you decide to scan the book, I would be interested in a copy".

kelt

[Ken C.]

Mlr224,
That manual may have been translated by French personnel, the use of the name Mousqueton being typically French.
In 1943, some of the units of the French army operating out of North Africa were equipped with US hardware, and the need for written instructions in French must have led to the translation of many US manuals.

Patrick, thanks for the reminder.

Cafdfw, I also happen to own a dropped M1 carbine, a Saginaw SG that was air delivered to the French resistance in Brittany during the winter 1943/44, my wife grandad made good use of it at the time.

I have owned a French MAAS for a few years now, I doubt it was ever dropped by anyone. I have the rifle, sling, cartridge pouches, a cleaning kit, a grenade launcher, and bayonette and scabbard. I think the rifle shoots just as well as anything else I own, and I like it. While the French soldiers were betrayed by their leaders in WW2 I think they went through terrible things during that period heroically, as well as in IndoChina and later, as described above. I remember the Frenchmen who shared our training facilities at Lowry AFB in the early 50s, they were great people and we got along well with them. They were as proud of their country as we were of ours.
Anybody can be overcome by overwhelming odds, it does not make them cowards. My opinion, anyway. Ken

[Greg O]

Thank you...
Yeah my language skills are definitely toast...

Greg,

It says something like:

"Thank you… I was just curious to know if they had changed the nomenclature, which they apparently did not do. If you decide to look at the book, I would be interested in a copy, you probably can tell that I collect french firearms and munitions"

[Harlan (Deceased)]

Greg,

I can't take the credit on this one. I can translate German fairly well but only know a little French.

I was curious what it said too and sent the link to this thread to my friend in France and he translated it for me. He laughed at me for getting bashed here.

[Newscotlander]

I will make an occasional joke about the French. But remember, if it wasn't for the aid of the French during the American Revolution, we would probably still be under British rule. And we all know what the British gun laws are.

[Mk VII]

I've seen US radio manuals printed in French as well.
The French got a lot of US WW2 equipment in the years just after the war.

[Maplebacon]

I was curious what it said too and sent the link to this thread to my friend in France and he translated it for me. He laughed at me for getting bashed here.

Comments on the internet have a bit wider an audience than a single friend.

[comm pogue]

OT well myself i'd like to thank the french.they had built a good size fort at Dong Ha.Well made concrete pill boxes and bunkers.as a member of the TRC-27 section, i spent many nights in a old pillbox where we had shots to Con Thien and Cua Viet.Just something more secure about concrete verses sandbags. Semper Fi Al