Re: help needed on a Colt
Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2021 3:48 pm
Many jeeps, trucks, and firearms were dumped in the ocean at the end of WW2 by the US govt. to protect American industry from plummeting demand due to a flood of surplus items. There are videos from back in the day of perfectly-fine trucks, tanks, and jeeps being pushed off the decks of aircraft carriers. I suspect many of the donated weapons suffered a similar fate for similar reasons.Blackstuff wrote:Yet another shameful page in Britains relationship with firearms.rufrdr wrote:The arms were actually privately own donated and not coerced arms. Not only were standard small arms donated but also binoculars and even some Thompson Submachine guns came from American civilians. The hope was they would be returned and some were but most were not. An article in the American Rifleman stated that many were dumped at sea at the end of the war by the UK government. I'm guessing that action occurred because accurate records were not kept of who actually donated the armschannel12 wrote:In the very early years of the war the American people "donated" miscellaneous arms to the UK. These ended up being issued to the Home Guard and as said above would be marked to show they were not a British calibre. This was especial important with the Pattern 1914 and the Model 1917 rifles, the 30-06 M17 being marked with a red ring around the handguard.