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New2brass
Moderator Group Dan Pinto, Photo Editor Joined: Nov 29 2015 Location: CT Status: Offline Points: 4627 |
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Posted: Feb 03 2020 at 3:22pm |
2020-A Unofficial Lost Carbines Don Hillhouse found some carbine items of interest in the daily notes of the 358th Bombardment Group during 1944 while stationed at Horsham, near the coast North East of London.
Don estimates that there were 1.5 million carbines in the European Theater of Operations on VE-Day. With as many as 20 percent of them with the USAAF the survival rate may have been very high on these carbines. The Club records were checked with no results. If you have one of these MIA carbines or a pair of driving gloves with ASN on the inside of the cuff please report them. The Carbine Collectors Club Copyright© 2012 www.USCarbineCal30.com This article and/or its images are the property of the author. They're not to be copied without prior written permission (Title 17, Chapter 5, Section 501(a) U.S. Code) Edited by New2brass - Mar 03 2020 at 8:14am |
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tenOCEE
Hard Corps Knows rear sights! Joined: Jan 01 2016 Location: East Tenn Status: Offline Points: 1330 |
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First place to check is each soldier's outgoing mailed packages. 1.5 million Carbines is a lot less than 6 million. |
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My sig: Seen an IP or S'G'? Add it to my registry. We'll check consecutives.
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BER911
Grunt Joined: Aug 04 2018 Location: Central VA Status: Offline Points: 314 |
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“First place to check is each soldier's outgoing mailed packages.“
No truer words have been said! 👍 |
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Semper Fi, Bruce
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firstflabn
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Edited by firstflabn - May 23 2021 at 10:25pm |
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tenOCEE
Hard Corps Knows rear sights! Joined: Jan 01 2016 Location: East Tenn Status: Offline Points: 1330 |
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No. You missed the point.
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My sig: Seen an IP or S'G'? Add it to my registry. We'll check consecutives.
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Matt_X
Hard Corps Joined: Nov 10 2020 Location: Phila, Penn Status: Offline Points: 766 |
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Another missing carbine! This appeared in the newspaper of the Marine Corps Air Station, Cherry Point, N.C. ___________________________________ Carbine Missing Search has been ordered on the station for a Carbine, Serial No 3531096,
reported missing by the Quartermaster of the First Marine Air Warning Group.
________________________________________p.3 of the The Windsock January 13, 1945
A couple pages later we learn the station quartermaster is, or was, Maj. Albert O. Woodrow. Probably much too late to tell him if someone turns up the carbine, but you can tell us! |
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thirtyround
On Point Joined: Nov 14 2016 Location: NE Arkansas Status: Offline Points: 182 |
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Gear adrift.... Is gear a Gift !!
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Bob-K-
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If one has possession of one of these carbines does it still need to be turned in to the provost marshal? Asking for a friend.
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painter777
Hard Corps Joined: Feb 18 2016 Location: Central MI Status: Offline Points: 1708 |
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Matt, I see you got a HIT on the CMP search. Page 415: https://forums.thecmp.org/showthread.php?t=137260&page=415 Charlie-P777
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Living Free because of those that serve.....
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Matt_X
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So close! Quote:
3531346 021146 usmc - okinawa 250 numbers apart and both with the USMC. Seems possible a Saginaw shipment stayed together until they got to the Marines. |
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painter777
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I messed up. Read your serial twice thinking it was a match. I'm rusty......
Ch-P777
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Matt_X
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That's OK. It would have been very cool if it turned up back in the system and then copied into those books.
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W5USMC
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A rusty Charlie on the forum is better than no Charlie on the forum! Welcome back! |
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Wayne
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New2brass
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+1 on what Wayne said.
Good to see you back Charlie!
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Thx for everything guys..... the Emails, PM's and the Prayers. Wife's health is improving. I can honestly say that was the toughest thing I've ever gone thru, feeling helpless. There were times I went days without any sleep so I could keep an eye on her until someone came to take over for a few hours. She had lost a 1/3 of her body weight before she turned the corner. They had her Meds out of whack. Couldn't get her admitted because of all the Covid patients. Probably for the best, had she caught it... lights out.
Just really appreciate all the support, Thank You Guys Charlie-P777
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Smokpole
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Glad to hear that she is getting better. Hope you are finally getting some sleep.
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