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Which is a worse piece of gear, the Reising subgun or the leggings he’s wearing?
Neither. His cover.
Might not be pretty. Might not be glamorus. Someone still has to pull guard duty.
Good thing they did it too. There were Nazi spies and saboteurs who arrived on shore via u-boats.
The threat was real.
this is true.. I remember reading something about this happening pretty frequently on the east coast.
With the bell bottoms they wore leggings were probably welcome.
The leggings may look awkward, but for this guy they probably functioned as gaiters, keeping sand and dirt out of his boots. Given that he probably wasn’t diving in the dirt often, the Reising probably worked fine for him. I seem to recall hearing that it worked well enough for police work.
True about the leggings – especially as he’s probably wearing either low quarters or ankle boots.
The reising was basically given to police departments by the Feds because no one wanted them, compared to the Thompson or even M3 grease guns, the reisings were basically junk.
Basically junk? Far from it. 2/3 the weight, 1/3 the cost and more accurate than a Thompson (as I make something of an apples to apples comparison here), the Reising was a hammer sometimes used for the wrong kind of nail.
We have one in our armory still…
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My Great Uncle Bill was a Coast Guard dog handler in WWII, somewhere in the Pacific. My grandmother told me that when war was over, he begged them to let him bring his dog home with him, but they wouldn’t let him.
There was a time soldiers sailors and airmen didn’t need a fashion statement or 9 kinds of camo.. Still got the job done.
True that
The days before all things “tactical”. LOL
the OD’s were the best camo
Good thing those “damned little yellow airplanes” harassed the uboats enough to make them pull back from the coast or they could have landed a bunch more
That was in reference to the Civil Air Patrol maritime patrols.
My dad was in the USAAF – got his draft notice in the mail on Dec 8, 1941 – and passed through Hawaii on his way out to Abemama and eventually Saipan. He said the beaches were beautiful but the barbed wire on ’em was pretty depressing. I’m still using that as an excuse with the wife to avoid a trip to Hawaii (not that we have the $ anyway…)
That shot was probably taken at Cape May. N.J. that’s where the
Coasties, trained. Still do today. Spent my summers there
Back in the 1940 my dad Walter S Carpenter Sr., served at the Avalon Life Saving Station, in Avalon, N.J. as a surf man and is a picture of him and the crew is listed on the internet under Avalon, N.J. Life Saving Station, Avalon, N.J.