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- Mon Apr 08, 2024 3:14 am
- Forum: Chit-Chat
- Topic: Friendly skies? bummer insignia!
- Replies: 5
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Re: Friendly skies? bummer insignia!
The Boeing P-12 is from the U.S. Army Air Corps, 55th Pursuit Squadron, early 1920s. Some U.S. Spads also wore the swastika emblem, during during WW1. The U.S. Army 45th Infantry division, with many Native Americans, wore a swastika patch from 1924 to 1939. The patch was changed to a 'Thunderbird' c...
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 1:51 am
- Forum: Chit-Chat
- Topic: Friendly skies? bummer insignia!
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Friendly skies? bummer insignia!
A perfectly good U.S. military unit-logo would be permanently ruined, just a few years later.
- Thu Apr 04, 2024 3:20 pm
- Forum: U.S. Military Krags
- Topic: School Rifles with JFC Stock Cartouche
- Replies: 21
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Re: School Rifles with JFC Stock Cartouche
Possible germ of the idea of issuing carbine length Krags to people of small stature. Full-length rifles proved very awkward for Filipinos serving in the U.S. Scouts and the Philippine Constabulary. 'Trapdoor' carbines were a good stopgap. Initially, The Philippine Scouts, at the 1904 - St. Louis Wo...
- Thu Apr 04, 2024 2:16 am
- Forum: U.S. Military Krags
- Topic: School Rifles with JFC Stock Cartouche
- Replies: 21
- Views: 965
Re: School Rifles with JFC Stock Cartouche
Frank Mallory and William Brophy both wrote a chapter on the Philippine Constabulary/School Rifles in their Krag books. The chapters throw some light, but, also create some confusion, at least in my mind, on the subject. Brophy shows pictures of a Springfield Armory produced short rifle with a J.F.C...
- Wed Apr 03, 2024 9:16 pm
- Forum: U.S. Military Krags
- Topic: School Rifles with JFC Stock Cartouche
- Replies: 21
- Views: 965
Re: School Rifles with JFC Stock Cartouche
FWIW - I don't own a 'School Rifle' and have seen more suspect ones, than real ones. To add to the confusion, "Philippine Constabulary carbines" and "School Rifles" are both technically, a "United States magazine carbine, model of 1899, adapted for knife bayonet and gun slin...
- Wed Apr 03, 2024 3:06 pm
- Forum: Chit-Chat
- Topic: How to post pictures
- Replies: 4
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Re: How to post pictures
Up to 5 pictures can be attached to a post. Make sure each picture is below 1,000 KiB (1 MiB) in size. When adding pictures, you click on the 'attachment' button, and then the 'add files' button. This will take you to images on your computer's hard-drive. You mouse click once on an image to choose i...
- Tue Apr 02, 2024 1:24 am
- Forum: Chit-Chat
- Topic: Test Markets
- Replies: 2
- Views: 252
Re: Test Markets
Ned, it's funny to people who know & like Polish food and enjoy the beginning of April!
- Mon Apr 01, 2024 10:32 pm
- Forum: Chit-Chat
- Topic: Test Markets
- Replies: 2
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Test Markets
McDonald's has selected Cleveland and Detroit, as trial markets, for a new 'International Offering'.
Sorry Toledo, Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Milwaukee & Chicago, you lost out, .... introducing "The McPierogi" !
Sorry Toledo, Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Milwaukee & Chicago, you lost out, .... introducing "The McPierogi" !
- Mon Apr 01, 2024 2:45 pm
- Forum: Other Firearms
- Topic: Winter Project Completed
- Replies: 8
- Views: 545
Re: Winter Project Completed
Very nice, but, I would distract 'break-ln' thieves by concealing the entrance, with a liquor cabinet in front of the door!
- Mon Apr 01, 2024 1:46 am
- Forum: U.S. Military Krags
- Topic: Front sight height?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 519
Re: Front sight height?
Out of curiosity, what is the height of your current front-sight combination and where does it group on target at 50 & 100 yards?