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Post by loggersdaughter on Jul 7, 2012 15:04:23 GMT -8
 I noticed some of you guys like to build the military equipment so I thought you might like to look at these. Sorry it doesn't show more of the truck. These are from Korea. |
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Post by loggersdaughter on Jul 7, 2012 15:05:06 GMT -8
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Post by ap40rocktruck on Jul 7, 2012 16:20:35 GMT -8
That is some line up of WW2 GMC CCKW's
Ap40
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Post by loggersdaughter on Jul 8, 2012 12:15:38 GMT -8
These were in my dad's box of military pictures from his days in Korea. So are these pictures from WW2 Richard or did they use these same rigs in Korea as well?
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Post by Muleskinner on Jul 8, 2012 12:25:12 GMT -8
With only five years between the end of WWII and the Korean War they were carry overs from WWII. Most of the Equipment used in Korea on the ground was carry over equipment, put back into service. Until the Cold War Started to heat up in the 50's equipment for the military remained the same. It all started to change with the arms race between the USA and USSR when better and updated equipment started to make a showing.
When I wain Viet Nam the M-14 Rifle I carried was built in the mid 50's and that was in 1970. The M-16 was just starting to make a showing three years prior but had a lot of problems. It took until 1970 to get all the bugs out of it for issue to all armed forces. Also there wasn't enough 5.56 MM ammo to support large scale use of the M-16 but was an abundance of 7.62 MM to support the M-14 so there was also a factor.
William
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Post by tufftin on Jul 9, 2012 5:51:09 GMT -8
William; I ran a rifle range in the Marine Corp and I think it was about '62 or 3 that we started changing from the M-1 to the M-14 Nato weapon. We did some execises for Headquarters Marine Corps but I don't want to go into the details.
Mike
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Post by Muleskinner on Jul 9, 2012 10:26:05 GMT -8
William; I ran a rifle range in the Marine Corp and I think it was about '62 or 3 that we started changing from the M-1 to the M-14 Nato weapon. We did some execises for Headquarters Marine Corps but I don't want to go into the details. Mike Mike, in the late fifties the M-14 was know as the emproved M1-A1 as most of it components came from the M-1. It actually went thru thirteen different changes before it became the M-14 in 1960, although through the changes it looked like it does today. The very first M-14 looked like an M-1 with a magazine stuck in it from the bottom instead of the Top feed unit used prior to that. It became standard issue in 1961 for Military issue. The original was also a 30.06 unit and was not changed to .308 or 7.62 until NATO began standardizing its Ammo so as to Balance out the number of Compatible weapoms on the Battle field. The British began changing the good old Lee Enfield over to .308 and used it till something else came along. That some thing was the Belgium F.A.L. which was chambered for the standard .308 Nato round or 7.62x54 MM. When the M1-A1 was finally standardized thats when they were issued to the US Forces around 1961 up to the emergence of the M-16. A good note here that a lot of people don't realize now days is a lot of the components for the M-16 were stamped and milled by Mattel Toy Corporation in the mid Sixties. I really never held my first M-16 until I came back to the states and when they give it to me I couldn't hit the broad side of a Barn door at 100 meters I was so used to the weight of the M-14. A lot of us had to be re trained to use it properly. Now days the M-14 in a lot of arms books is now known as the M1-A1 from its former title. I could be wrong about a few points of this But then so are the Officers who drilled it into my head. The Ruger Mini 14 farm rifle I was told, was basically designed off of the M1-M2 Carbine. I have a M-1 Carbine which I bought and have looked at the mechanical workings of some of the components in the Mini 14 and they are layed out basically the same. William |
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Post by tufftin on Jul 10, 2012 6:03:45 GMT -8
The M-14 when in it's infatcy was built by two outfits. The first being the US Government Arsenal and the second was Cadilac Guage in Costa Mesa, California. We displayed the fire power from the CG unit but of course the Gov chose their own.
Mike
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