Not often you hear about such things.

Survey Punk · September 21, 2008, 18:09

This is just neat.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,425678,00.html

JB

**parallaxbill** · September 21, 2008, 18:33

Good story,some misinformation about the rifles and their fate but good story anyway.

I know a couple of guys looking for their fathers and grandfathers M1 rifles. I have one about 300 off the serial number of one of them.

panzertruppe · September 23, 2008, 14:53

The warrior and his sword re-united..... The gun and the story, in one sitting.... Really amazing.....

panzertruppe

M 1928 · October 05, 2008, 15:35

A while back (2 or 3 months) I spoke with a 93 year old clerk-typist soldier of WWII who had the carbine he carried from his typewriter to the front line foxhole during the Battle of the Bulge! He mentioned to me he had just been to his doctor for his yearly check up and the doc told him he had at least 15 more years!

navajo · October 15, 2008, 16:17

Not quite the same thing but...,,
Writer Mickey Spillane was a pilot during WWII. After the war, some time in the fifties, he bought a surplus P-51. Checking the SN against his log book turned out he had flown the same P-51 during the war.

September 21, 2008, 18:09	#1
Survey Punk FALaholic #: 8380 Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Blounts Creek, NC Posts: 4,160	Not often you hear about such things. This is just neat. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,425678,00.html JB __________________ "If innocence is no protection from the weight of criminal law, a crucial incentive to maintain innocence is lost" Fran Haga

September 21, 2008, 18:33	#2
parallaxbill Prototype machinist Contributor Bronze Contributor FALaholic #: 26251 Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: NC Posts: 711	Good story,some misinformation about the rifles and their fate but good story anyway. I know a couple of guys looking for their fathers and grandfathers M1 rifles. I have one about 300 off the serial number of one of them. __________________ ParallaxBill

October 15, 2008, 16:17	#5
navajo Registered FALaholic #: 20198 Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: texas Posts: 24	story Not quite the same thing but...,, Writer Mickey Spillane was a pilot during WWII. After the war, some time in the fifties, he bought a surplus P-51. Checking the SN against his log book turned out he had flown the same P-51 during the war.

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September 23, 2008, 14:53	#3
panzertruppe Registered FALaholic #: 10439 Join Date: May 2003 Location: Texas Posts: 208	The warrior and his sword re-united..... The gun and the story, in one sitting.... Really amazing..... panzertruppe

October 05, 2008, 15:35	#4
M 1928 Registered FALaholic #: 37018 Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: ORYGUN Posts: 97	A while back (2 or 3 months) I spoke with a 93 year old clerk-typist soldier of WWII who had the carbine he carried from his typewriter to the front line foxhole during the Battle of the Bulge! He mentioned to me he had just been to his doctor for his yearly check up and the doc told him he had at least 15 more years!