Six Foot Long Cutaway Model Of The M2 Carbine
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Six Foot Long Cutaway Model Of The M2 Carbine
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The development of the M2, one of the most popular infantry weapons of WWII and Korea, is largely due to the pioneering work of a mechanical genius named David Marshall “Carbine” Williams (1900-1975). While serving time at Caledonia State Prison in Halifax County, North Carolina in the 1920s, Williams invented the short-stroke piston and the floating chamber principles which eventually revolutionized small-arms manufacture. It was the use of his short-stroke piston in the M1 and M2 Carbines manufactured by Winchester and others that brought his greatest fame and his nickname “Carbine Williams.” In 1952 Jimmy Stewart portrayed Carbine Williams in a movie of the same name.
General Douglas MacArthur called this light, rapid-fire carbine “one of the strongest contributing factors in our victory in the Pacific.”
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- Date of Manufacture:1951-53
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- Seller Location:New York, NY
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