"My Mom Bought Me a .45 To Use on IWO JIMA" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/_lNTFi4twxo !
I'm assuming it was a 1911, because back then a lot of marines just called them "Colt 45's"..... They were 45 caliber and mostly Colt made. I learned that in the early 1960's when I had a dart gun copy of a Colt 1911 that shot those plastic darts with suction cups on the ends, and one of my uncles, who had been a Marine in the Pacific, called it a "Colt 45". Then; in later years I heard the same thing from some other WW2 veterans, most of whom, like my uncle, had little to no handgun experience prior to the military. 45 cal. & made by Colt = Colt 45.I wonder if it was a 1911 or Single Action Army ?
I have friends who served at various times in the Middle East from 1991 up through 2005. They were able to acquire a lot of unauthorized weapons that they used after getting there. But they weren't able to bring them back. When they rotated home they left them to someone else.