A Soldier's Note I Found In My M1 Garand (CMP Field Grade)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2024
- A quick look at a hand-written note, stuffed in the buttstock of an M1. Admittedly not Hollywood dramatic in its content, but real life rarely is. Some however might find it more relatable, more human, that way.
What have you found stuffed inside an old milsurp?
I have a buddy that was born and raised in Turkey and he told me the following about what the note said:
It is a kinda funny note. First line is like a riddle basically saying "90 days of stupidity just remember to keep your distance." Bottom writing is like a complaint saying "What type of service is this, all I do is sit down and stand up this not being a soldier."
In 1976 I was doing renovation work on an old church in Baltimore Maryland. I was removing hand cut woodwork that was to be reinstalled later. On the back of one piece I found written with a pencil, the initials "J. D." and the date "1897." I often wondered who that craftsman was, so I decided to start signing my own work. But, I signed my whole name and date and added my current address as well. I did that for over 40 years in four different states, until retiring. So far no one has tried to contact me, so maybe my work is still standing to this day!
When I was 18 or 19 working for a contractor doing additions remodels etc. I would write " johnny was here " on cats or other bullcrap nailers or spacers that I did a particularly bad job on . Like if I made a really bad cut or beat the hell outta the block of wood while getting it in place. Started doing that when an older guy made the joke that he know who put that in. So as a joke I started signing my " best "work. Wouldnt have left it if it was something serious or something somone other than the sheet rocker would see.
Might be 100 years before anyone has to do any repairs
Nice! I used to leave an empty can of chew with a newspaper article and my initials in my work.
I was a telephone installer. Every time I crawled under a home or building I signed and dated my presence. My name is in the clock tower of the Parker county texas courthouse.
Roofers still do that in England .. they mark a slate or tile with an initial and a date sometimes , Ive found many signed slates in my time working on old buildings here in the Uk... I sometimes added my name to them and a date and placed them back in situ for the next generation to find... Im sure yours will be found and added to ... 👍
Hey guys I have almost never had a rifle I ever found anything this interesting in, BUT with that said I bought a Radom V35 Nazi made pistol from a friends father I believe its dated 42 and this pistol came with a sheet of paper that explained how the gun was acquired in Germany by a P47 pilot who was shot down. The pilot explained that he got out of the plane ok but all he had was hi 1911 and about 8 miles to walk to get out of Germany before he would be captured, somewhere along this walk he heard one gun shot and a bullet hit the ground in front of him and then he saw the German who had fired the shot at him and the pilot shot the German with his 1911 and killed him. As he walked by he grabbed the Germans pistol which was the Radom V35, the one I now have. The pilot walked himself out of occupied territory and was picked up by a good guys patrol and continued the war. Well he got home and told his wife that should anything happen to him that he wanted the V35 to go to his best friend. Well time keeps moving and our pilot passes away and his wife gave the V35 to his best friend who had it for another 10 years till he also passes away, well the gun came back to the pilots wife. My friends Father finally bought the gun and got the paper describing all this stuff and I ended up buying the V35 from him. I read the letter the gun is about 85% I think it was an early war gun because it still has a nicely blued finish. Well one day I loaded up the magazine and this is where EVERYTHING SUDDENLY all came together. The gun fired one shot and jammed, I cleared it and fired it again and after the shot the gun jammed again! I am thinking I need to look at that letter again and the pilot said when the German shot at him he only SHOT ONE SHOT! I took the gun to a gunsmith and he verified my thought that the gun had been sabotaged when it was built by forced labor Poles!!!
How incredible is THAT, and I am not even remotely creative enough to come up with something like THAT!!!! I still have the gun and the papers it came with!
Wonderful story, thank you...
Stuff like this is why I read comments. Very neat story. Thanks for sharing!
@@murkinstock Yes, I will second your comment. I found it to be a very interesting story.
Mark from Melbourne Australia
Really good story, thanks.
Cool story.
"Sit down and stand up". Reminds me of US Army's, "Hurry up and wait". Cool find of the note. Congrats on the historic rifle. Thanks for sharing.
That's the absolute best translation.
Every service in the world has a phrase exactly meaning "Hurry up and wait" because that is what all servicemen of all counties do.
Another corollary is "months of boredom and 30 seconds of terror"
Its a rifle from turkish navy basic training camp. I had the same rifle when I was in navy. 14. BL. means 14th company other number is the rifles armory code. 87-4 means that soldier was there 1987 in the fourth conscript group means he was there between november-february . he says hello to the next group 88-1. 4 digit number at the bottom is his military number which is 4 digit number at navy. Muğla is where he comes from not where he made his military service. Theres no basic training camp in Muğla anyway. Probaby he was at Iskenderun navy training regiment where I did my basic training . My rifle is identical except the numbers on it . I can send a picture if u really wanna be sure of the origin
The 90 qún boru means 90 days in Boru (a place)
Protect the distance
Swearing about the warfare that is going on and that he is in a bad situation.
48 is his age
Mugla is a city in Turkey.
My CMP H&R M1 Garand had an old, fat used cigar tucked away in the stock's cleaning kit storage area. I put it right back and left it in there, imagine the stories this rifle could tell, probably from late Pacific WW2 to Korean War era.
If it’s H&R it’s probably Korean Era
That is so rad
Just like in band of brothers lol
Kept it there safe until they were cool enough to clean your rifle, have a smoke , then eat and such. Yeah, sounds legit. The cigar survived! Lol
H&R received it's contract for M1 rifles in April 1952 and completed the contract in May 1956. About the only stories they can tell are boring days of training, guard duty and change of command ceremonies.
I left a note of encouragement in the buttstock of my m16a2 before i turned it back in at the end of basic training. Fort sill fall/winter cycle 2012-2013
I was at Fort Sill in 2007 for bct.. Recruiter told me id get nicotine patches and that i didn't need to stop smoking before shipping out. That was a lie!! lol i wish i could've found a few marlboros in my buttstock lol
@@southernviking3113 I left a note in the butt of my rifle too. it read "Recruiters are all liars, Especially mine S/Sgt Schnook. BTW the way that was the liar's real name.
in 1997 I was working on the start of a P-40 restoration that had been retrieved out of Northern Russia , up near Finland. As I was disassembling what was left of the plane, I found notes from the young ladies at the Curtiss factory in Buffalo New York that had been scribbled on various parts as the plane was being assembled. Many years later it was discovered that it was was only 5 serial numbers away from the lost P-40 flown by RAF F/O Dennis Copping in the Sahara desert.
Working on a Lancaster in Toronto. In the nose pencilled on the metal were some dates and crew rosters. In the tail, it was Feb 1962, Exercise Nimble Bat II. Said it was windy, colder than a who*es heart and why are we here? No one cares. Interesting tales.
During the 1980's while working as a Machinist, Marine at the Long Beach Naval Shipyard I was assigned to the reactivation of the USS Missouri which had been in mothballs. As I was one of the first to assist in opening compartments, we found there many inscriptions written by the crew before closing her up. Most talked of serving aboard the Great Lady, and while I can't remember the inscription, one of the most poignant was on the back of an electrical board by her generators. All these notes brought to life the fact that without a crew a ship had no heart.
@@CAdam-oo5bd Found a pencilled crew list and a 60's date in the nose of a Lancaster, FM104, and in the tail section that read "Feb 22 1962, Exercise Nimble Bat 2. Windy as Hell and colder than a wh*res heart. Why were are here no one knows and no one gives a sh*t either." Somehow I think that sonobuoy operator didn't re-enlist.
Thanks for sharing the weapon and note with us. Sometimes it is easy to forget weapons are attached to people. Without the person, it is an expensive paperweight. I have to wonder how many people carried your rifle before it ended up with you.
Thanks for showing and sharing this interesting provenance with all of us. This hand written note adds much to the history and story of this rifle, it should be preserved. Thanks again...
You sure it doesn't say "ouch this darn thing almost took my thumb off"
In 1974 we took a squadron of Marine Corps F4J Phantoms to Izmir Turkey for Operation Deep Furrow. A Turkish officer was in conference with our C.O. Some of the guys were tossing a football around and the Turkish officer's adjutant made the mistake of laughing out loud. That officer bitch slapped him until his face was bloody. We were impressed
The Turkish Air Force Guard who did security on our bus to and from Diyabikir, Turkey. I don't know if his M1 was loaded or not. But one afternoon leaving Pirinclik Air Station on the bus. The Guard was impressed with his M1. He held it out at a sitting port arms. The lock work fell out of it. You could tell he was embarrassed. He tried to put it back together but wasn't having any luck. A Tech Sargent I worked with was a former USAF CATM Instructor. He held out his hands and the Turk gave him the M1. He put it back together for him. My question to my Sargeant was it going to stay together if he needed it.
Nice rifle with a cool find.👍😎
This is still an item on my ever growing Xmas list 😁
Well that’s interesting. The rifle is sweet! Maybe Sezgin will see this.
Father in law "liberated" a Schmeiser sub machine gun, and an "Eagle". Italy, WW2. Stuck his M1 into the seat springs of his duce and a half. Last he saw of the truck, getting loaded onto a boat....
That deuce and a half was probably pushed over the side once well out to sea. That was done to a lot of equipment after WWII to reduce the colossal amount of surplus we had.
@@oltyret True.
They didn't leave 87 billion worth of equipment behind for the enemy to use like President Sniffy did in Afghanistan !
@@richardswann5300 Lets go brandon!!
@@richardswann5300...none of which will be of any use inside of 6 months.
It will either break down or be f*cked by ham-handed attempts at repair by an ignorant tribesman
my translation of that note . 87-4 ( that number is a kind of identity of a soldier , he was joined at 1987 at the 4th group ) . 90 days waste of time keep the distance. 88-1 hello ( he says hello to the next group and giving his advice to them ) in here only thing u have to do is sit down and stand up . thats how being a soldier in here. Sezgin (his name ) his military number and muğla , the city where he come from.
Jeez thats a dream rifle. Man, your a lucky duck!
Very cool! “…if guns could talk….” Well, this one did.
This Rifle is super interesting. The provenance of the Rifle is shown clearly. So cool.
Thanks for the info and sharing now it makes sense why there’s ammo for the garand from turkey going Around with a date of 1964
Years back - a friend and I would drive over to the CMP North store (once to the south store). Hand pick Garands off the racks. Great Greek returns and some pretty minty ones at that. Think they where $595 back then. Most gauged a 1 / 2 on the service gauges. The .22 training rifles and carbine releases where also great. CMP had millions of rounds of Greek HXP ammo back then also. Those where the days and long gone now.... thank you for the video. Brings back memories of those long 8 hour trip to the CMP north store.
You're hurting my heart, amigo. I'll probably never own one of these fine rifles. Missed my chance, indeed.
Exactly this is why I always check the stocks of my rifles. I even have a note in one of my family heirloom guns, from my great grandfather.
Translation:
“This MRE needs soya sauce”-signed Happy Lucky Joe.
The M14 I was issued had a paper with the range dope...
I don’t know where you live but, I’m sure you could do a simple search and find a Turkish club or church or other group in your area for a translation or maybe a University language department that might be able to help.
Nice story!
Turkish Churches are extremely rare the official stats say Turks are 97% Sunni Muslim
Hey guys a little update on this Radom I have in my possession it is SN F7436 I field stripped it today and all the numbers are matching and it does have a holster, it sure looks to be original. The holster is a flap type holster sealed at the muzzle and has a pocket for an extra magazine for the gun. The holster is brown leather is pretty decent shape but it sure loos original to the gun, I cannot find and numbers on the holster or the magazine for the gun I went online today and all the Nazi acceptance markings are on the gun where they should be and the frame, slide and barrel number all match. The P47 pilot who "acquired" the rigs name was Captain John Glaws he graduated flight school 10/10/42 and he flew P-47 with the 57th fighter group in the European theatre of operations. He was shot down 3 times over the war all in P47s it one of these times that he "acquired" The Radom! In reading his letter more and another letter from his wife Captain Glaws passed away in 1994. Its a hell and I feel very fortunate to be a tiny tiny little part of it! This next part hurts a little bit to say and many of you have given the same extremely good suggestion to donate this gun, holster and the letter that is with it to a museum, like I told Mr. Burns, sometimes our collectibles can outgrow us the collectors and that is my heavy hearted feelings about this gun! On Monday I am going to start to look for a very good museum Like the NRA museum or the WWII museum in New Orleans to donate the gun to, it does nobody any good locked up in my safe till I die and then heaven only knows where it will end up. Thanks to all of you for the good very knowledgeable comments concerning this piece, I will tune in again when the gun is gone and let you know where it went to!
Thanks again!
Karl
As this was after D-Day, they had probably long stopped marking holsters or mags with anything as it was time better spent churning out what they could with the increasingly limited resources they had available. So I'd find the lack of them perfectly consistent with the time period.
A gun is better used than sitting in a museum. It’s a great disservice to those who built it.
Karl show it to younger guys and tell them the history. keep the history alive
I am surprised the Civilian Marksmanship Program still has rifles for sale after being around all these years. That's pretty neat that you found a note in the butt stock though. Oh and I subscribed to your channel.
the grunts when he pulled the lever back and placing the gun on the bed.... easy killer, gonna snap them twigs off.
What pisses me off is the prices the CMP wants for these weapons. Literally hundreds of thousands of pistols and rifles and wanting over a thousand each depending on grade.
Well now we know what the Turkish guy who works at CMP does all day.
WOW! That's a time capsule.
From some research I’ve done on Turkish mausers, they leave notes in rifles sometimes.
My father-in-law gave me a P-38 that he brought home from Germany with a holster. Inside the holster there were 6 names, all were crossed off except the last guy. Pretty sobering when u see stuff like that inside the holster.
What we used to say was...
Hurry up and wait.
If you had a mission for 10 o'clock then we would have been woken up at 2am to get ready
Super informative and just well done video
Mine is a 1944 re barreled in 1945
Posted it on My TH-cam today
Its interesting but no note
Thats just Epic!!!
Great video
I found a price tag for 25.00 in my buttstock of my garand lmao
Wow, what a fantastic find. Have you shot it much?
Basic training October 1962. M1 Garand. my issue weapon . would love to have it now.
i once bought a BDU flak jacket and found a old ass wrapper for a jawbreaker in it.
Bunda, mean( mother) atur mean (organise)
The letter word like in Asia region can be sound Indonesia word or Philippines deep in rural area
Very cool.
So they were still making these after the war. I would have thought after demoblising thousands of soldiers you would have stacks of these still in good condition
Well the M14 didn't come along until years later. So it makes sense they continue to produce the M1 Garand after the war ended.
Remember, your rifle doesn't have to be the best, it just has to be better than what the enemy has. And even after the war ended, most nations still just had bolt-action rifles.
@@FinalLugiaGuardian I'm a Brit and we were still developing a manufacturing Lee Enfields well into the 50s. Our army takes a long time to get into new fangled things. Like for example Frank Whittle invented the jet engine in the 1930s. But it was too advanced for posh boy Ruperts. That is what we call our officers Ruperts. We wouldn't have been fighting the Battle of Britain with Spitfires but jets.
And the US military is still light years ahead of the rest of the world!!! The newest weapon about to take the battle field is the 5.8 Drone rifle that a soldier can operate remotely!!! It can navigate anything but water at this point! It carries 20 rounds currently! Ditches and rocks are no problem! It is hard to kill even with a mirror! As accurate as a sniper!!! When empty it auto retracts it’s path to be reloaded!!!
Bump
Hurry up and wait ...soldiers age old gripe
Hey Omelette I got a question. My barrel has a lime green more turquoise color inside of it near the end of my rifle? Is this rust or something bad?
That's really cool! Find the guy that wrote it and give him a reward for taking good care of it for ya brother lolz!
interesting piece of history.
i wish i could afford one of these.
Awesome ! How much you want for it ?
Can you put what the words are in the comments. My best friend is an officer in the Turkey Army Reserve. He can tell us exactly what it says ... in context.
Shucks, that's easy: It says "Kilroy was here".
Back in the 70's for 30 bucks I bought a 8mm 1888 gehwer (spelling?) that was a Turkish army rifle.
Pretty cool, I also have an battlefield pickup AK with trench art, thing is beat up but works like it’s new.
if you live near a local college maybe there is a turkish student that goes there and he can interpret the note.
the date is April 1987
Skip to 2:10 for message. Turkish to be translated.
Is this a Turkish language note 📝 🤔?
Years ago I bought an old Winchester 1897 shotgun, get it home and cleaning it up I see it has a piece of paper under the buttplate
Get a screwdriver, take off the buttplate get the note out…” said put the buttplate back on idiot
The Weapon Belong to A Turkish Border Guard Dog .
ROOF ROOF . SIT . STAND UP . ROOF ROOF
Chamber flags? Omg. I can tell the government got to you.
A GREAT FINE! Don't do any thing to it. Leave all the marks ect on the barrel and stock Keep it original as possible! If you do add things to it? KEEP THE ORIGINAL PARTS > This is what makes a gun grow in value over the years. Again don't restore it! Keep it Original ! Shoot it as much as you wish! Some of my WWI guns. The ammo is hard to fine! So i don't shoot them much, and reload the shells. I have some value at 200k with all matching number ect Plus the history to whom it was issue to. SOME GENERALS ect shot and own them > My grandpa use to collect them, while in the war, and my Uncle to! Had some Great guns. When they past, the guns was divided up in the family, and i got a few good ones. There was a few i really wanted bad, 30 ca. carbine. and a German P 38 went to my Uncle son> I got the WWI Mausers 😉Broom handle, and 2 Luger From my Grandpa 😁 Stocks, mag, and holsters that went with them ALL MATCHING NUMBERS 👍👀
The Newest US soldier rifle is a drone rifle that the soldier can operate remotely. It can navigate anything but water currently. It currently has a 20 round capacity And auto retracts Its path when empty. It can navigate ditches and rocks with a little trouble at all. The US Leads weapons research continuously.
I would like to solve the puzzle, it says, let’s go Brandon!.
Muğla is a city.
Volume low.
I found a note in my Cetme rifle parts kit, if anyone wants to see it msg me.
Merhaba
Bu tüfek ABD yardımı olarak Türkiye ye geldi tekrar nasıl ABD ye döndü güzel video teşekkürler
87/4 main apx. 2009
Unroll it, keep it flat, and preserve it flat between two sheets of acid free paper in a dark, climate controlled environment. Don't keep it rolled and stored with the rifle.
My derem
Sorry but can someone please explain CMP to this Aussie? Thanks in advance!
Mark from Melbourne Australia
CMP is civilian marksmanship program.
You can purchase these rifles from them, either through the mail or in person. You have to fill out paperwork, of course and meet some requirements but they are easy to meet for most people. They also sponsor civilian shoots to practice marksmanship. It was originally part of the US Army (Department of Civilian Marksmanship), founded to promote, well, "civilian marksmanship". One part of the government is trying to ban guns and another part (the guns come from the Army still) is selling them and teaching folks how to shoot them quickly and accurately. They also sell ammo when they have it. God Bless America.
CMP is Civilian Marksmanship Program. They have two warehouses full of M1Carbines, M1Garands, M1903 Springfields, pistols, etc. ... the list goes on and on. Civilians are eligible to buy these firearms if they are members of shooting clubs or are involved in documented shooting activities. The warehouses are in Alabama and Michigan.
@@garypulliam3740 The only thing they have these days are M-1 rifles and M1911 pistols.
@@thomasmoran9114 Not true. You can get an M1 Carbine in Alabama but you have to go there to get it.
Well hell Sparky you really cracked the code on that one. Maybe you can tell us where Hoffa is buried.
I thought it translated to, "Epstein didn't kill himself" or "Let's go Brandon", roughly.
Lol……
Somebody send this video to @HasanAbi
What's the body count .! ♠️
It’s in Turkish wtf
İt says 90 days gone keep your distance 88.1 slm means hi all you have to do is stand up and sit down all day thats millitary service here
He sounds like s “happy” soldier… 😵💫
I appreciate this, thank you
Very cool ty
Be really cool to try and find him on the web
As a former soldier I can translate the message. It says being a grunt sucks and I hope I live through this hell on earth. Signed- GI Joe. Every soldier from every country can relate that
Nice job in translating that! I was going to say something similar. Bellyaching is every soldier's god given right!
And I thought it said, "ow!, this thing damn near crushed my thumb".
@@jamesdunn9609 It's when the grunts stop bitching... then you really need to worry. I say that as a grunt myself.
I can verify, but I would do it all again.
Hurry up and wait
go gun barw go gun bar
mesafayi koru keep your distance
burda tak yapma don't plug (stop) here
gereken stan kalk stand up required
burda askerlik bu here is the military
sezgin intuition
This is a 'phrase short-list' for someone serving in a Turkish speaking area, that didn't natively speak Turkish...quick phrases he kept in the buttstock to make sure he was saying the correct phrase (go, gun barred in this area, or don't stop here, or standing is required...no sitting)...
Sezgin meaning 'intuition' is the give-away...so he could say 'I THINK...' possibly, prior to searching someone at a perimeter. We used such 'cheat cards' in the U.S. Marines in various war zones.
One of my mosin nagants had tally marks on the side. Had over 28 cuts on the wood.
😲
"Had"? Past tense?
@@HiTechOilCo sold it
Ryu
Could be kills….
Or could be the near misses that the bearer almost got his own ass shot.😳
@@helidude3502 it was a fun rifle but I sold it for a Springfield 1903a3. The Springfield rifle has battle damage and it looks like it was definitely used in CQB due to gashes on the rear end of the buttstock, possibly blocking a Japanese bayonet charge?
I had a similar experience with my Swiss WWII era K31. A small note with the soldier’s name, address and rank was folded under the butt plate. This is typical of these (superb) rifles. I was very lucky regarding my M1.... Purchased it from a WWII combat vet who was a friend of my father’s, shortly before he passed away. He had acquired his Garand thru the CMP in 1960, because he “wanted to keep close the object that repeatedly saved my life in the war.” The astonishing thing about this 1943 Springfield-made rifle is that it is all matching, with the exception of the stock which was replaced by the San Antonio armory after the war. This pristine specimen takes your breath away.
Thats a great find. I had had a coworker I gave a ride to work & home everyday cause hed lost his license. After he got them back he had no ride so I said I have a old S10 that runs & drives good just a old work truck ill sell you. He was excited & said ok, & to thank me for the rides & selling him the truck on payments he said he had something for me. His uncle had owned a pawn shop & had been a prepper after his death the family found stuff hidden everywhere. When I got to his house be brought out a old early 1970s AR,it was wrapped in 10 pounds of was paper & packed with grease. The upper showed signs of use & the lower witch was fairly new was a custom built DPMS (i know but a Colt lower is so high) 20 inch barrel,🔺 hand guard crazy handle etc this is the rifle everyone is going for in retro builds. He told me it was mine for all the help id given for him, he still owed a little on the truck but I just gave him the title & called it even. When I took it apart to clean up I found 4 He'll Notes in the butt stock folded up in some yellowish plastic wrap. I still have the rifle its a great shooter the iron sights arent the best but I'm not going to put any optics on that rifle except maybe the old type scope that mounted on the carry handle.
That’s cool, the rifle has a story now. Only thing I found in one of mine was an armorer tag 🏷 from a Veterans post north of Atlanta. But the serial didn’t match the rifle, so my guess is the stock was changed out at some point.
Friend recently bought a Winchester M 37 red letter. Shotgun had a chipped but plate so we remove it....There was a roll of newspaper dated 1940 in the stock , before the USA entered WW2.
I used to remove the buttplate on my shotguns and would put strike anywhere matches in the screw hole. Never know when you might need a fire
I guess you don’t know, the Turkish Army was largely conscript. The discipline was fierce. Beating of soldiers for almost. Any infraction, real or imagined, was common. Suicides of conscripts was common. The Turkish Army hierarchy is very strict. If there are 3 privates, their respective rank is easily determined, absent any other rank, date of service, if same date, hour or mi Ute of enlistment. If you’ve ever seen the film “Zulu”, the date of commission thing. The Turkish Army performed valiantly in the Korean War. The Garland has properly been the weapon of more than a dozen Turkish conscripts, it may have been used in one or more coups in Turkey, it may have been used in one or more pogroms against the Kurds.
Turkey, the land of 1955,1956 and1957 chevrolets.bet you wont find that on the computer.
Much like the Japanese army at one point
For translation it says, "We've been trying to get hold of you about your car's extended warranty."
Damn but I HATE those calls...my car is 21 years old.
I just remembered that my dad made me write a note and screw it behind the butplate on a Marlin .22 that my uncle gave me in 1975. My little sinister inherited the farm, so I’ll ask her to see what it said!
Little 'sinister'??? Gotta love that!
“We would like to talk to you about your cars extended warranty”
I’ve never been to Turkey, but plan to dine on some tomorrow so you can be confident that my translation is accurate 😎
Great rifle. Awesome to find the note inside. I have 3 M1 Garands myself. All Springfields.
That's so cool man I finally got my email notification That they received my order I sent it in July 2nd And I'm hopeful they will fulfill my request because they listed them as sold out.
Good luck, enjoy!
Your Garand has the square cut receiver (op-rod area) which is somewhat rare. Springfield later cut a radius area dues to cracks at the 90* area. Lucky find.
I honestly expected that note to be from 1Lt Milo Minderbinder's "M&M Enterprises". =P
“Sit down and stand up” is probably synonymous with the US Army’s “Hurry up and wait” that we used to say. Kinda a service joke about the catch22, oxymoronic or sometimes ridiculousness of how the military seems to do the things that makes no sense.
I never found anything in my M1 but I did find an identification card under the buttplate of my Swiss 1911. Amazing bit of history.
Yeah. In 1971, when I was a sentry doing base security, the Marine CO at the base had bought an old '03 Springfield. He had the Marine Armorer look it over to clean it up and fix anything wrong with it - and the guy found a note in it. The Note said that it was being written on a cold winter night when the guy was on sentry duty at an Air Force Base, some time in I believe the '50's and he had included his home address - saying that if anyone ever found the note - to let him know.
So - my CO did.
Something neat all around.
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Has more on it than my note had that I found in mine. The note in mine only said "post 297 Saint Francis"
When I left home with orders for Vietnam my WW2 veteran father hugged me and whispered in my ear "Remember son butt down, heads up". An old soldier's way of saying don't be an easy target and stay alert to everything happening around you. I wonder if this is not a closer interpretation.
Thank you for your service sir. I had two uncles who served over there.
Ours saying back in 68 army. Hurry up and wait!. On the other hand I have great respect for the fathers saying, it makes more sense...
Always like it when u can get some insight into the history of old surplus rifles.
I bought a Yugo SKS 15+ years ago. Inside the leather ammo pouch I found an old Yugoslavian 50 'dollar' bill a soldier had left and forgotten. Gave it to a collector friend of mine. Only cool thing I ever found like that.
The currency of Yugoslavia was dinar not "dollar".50 dinars was a blue banknote.