It had to be a THR member who noticed...

[jhisaac1]

I was reading my latest American Rifleman and in the Q&A section, somebody wrote in (with a picture) about the statue of the Marines (and the Navy Corpsman) raising the flag on Iwo Jima.

Their question was about the M1 Carbine in the picture having a bayonet lug when most carbines didn't get the lug until after the war.

My first thought was that it HAD to be a THR member who would study the statue, notice the lug, KNOW it was wrong, and take the time to write about it.

So, who was it? Fess Up.

As the answer points out, this "in no way diminishes the impact and meaning of the magnificent flag-raising statue." If you haven't read it yet, go to the thread "Iwo Jima (Lest We Forget)" that is currently here in General. It's a good thread.

 

[Lictalon]

Unfortunately, it was probably some crusty 70 year-old who knows more about firearms than all of us combined, but doesn't use a computer.

There's probably a vast wealth of knowledge out there that we don't see, because some of the people who have BTDT aren't here telling us about it. We're losing them at a rate of thousands a day...

That's depressing.

 

[KMKeller]

Unfortunately, it was probably some crusty 70 year-old who knows more about firearms than all of us combined

Is that any way to talk about Art?...

 

[seeker_two]

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Unfortunately, it was probably some crusty 70 year-old who knows more about firearms than all of us combined
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Is that any way to talk about Art?...

...or his grammaw.....

 

[Art Eatman]

 

[TheeBadOne]

 

[BigG]

I'm no expert on this but this don't sound right. I mean they started to build the gun in 1941, they built SIX FREAKING MILLION of them, then somebody says, "Hey, we need to add a bayo lug to this thang." ??

Oh, you said the gov't was involved. Never mind. :banghead: