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Denver Post has some really good photos in that "Captured" series. The site is kind of hard to navigate though to find them. http://denverpost.slideshowpro.com/albums/001/496/album-101361/cache/pacific022.sJPG_950_2000_0_75_0_50_50.sJPG?1270432779 I don't recall ever seeing a drum on a GI Thompson before. That's not a GI Thompson...it has the Cutts, and adjustable rear sight. Also, didn't the GIs have the cocking knob on the side? |
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Denver Post has some really good photos in that "Captured" series. The site is kind of hard to navigate though to find them. http://denverpost.slideshowpro.com/albums/001/496/album-101361/cache/pacific022.sJPG_950_2000_0_75_0_50_50.sJPG?1270432779 I don't recall ever seeing a drum on a GI Thompson before. That's not a GI Thompson...it has the Cutts, and adjustable rear sight. Also, didn't the GIs have the cocking knob on the side? I think the GIs or should I say Marines had older weapons and I think the .gov had that type of Thompson early on. I think they simplified them later in the war so they where easer to make. If it's army it early in the war. |
| Thousands of 1928A1 Thompsons saw sevice with our armed forces during WWII and all of them would accept drum magazines. The majority of the 28A1s also were fitted with the Cutts compensators. It wasn't until early 1942 with the introduction of the M1 and thru to the M1A1 models that the Thompson wouldn't accept drum mags, the cocking handle moved to the side and the adjustable sights went away. All of those changes were for speeding up production and cutting down costs. |
| Very good find!!! I found out about 2 years ago that my Grandfather served in the Navy. His ship was stationed in Pearl Harbor, and left port about 3 days prior to December 7th. He was pretty choked up when he told me that there were a couple of his buddies on other ships that were lost that day. |
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Denver Post has some really good photos in that "Captured" series. The site is kind of hard to navigate though to find them. http://denverpost.slideshowpro.com/albums/001/496/album-101361/cache/pacific022.sJPG_950_2000_0_75_0_50_50.sJPG?1270432779 I don't recall ever seeing a drum on a GI Thompson before. That's not a GI Thompson...it has the Cutts, and adjustable rear sight. Also, didn't the GIs have the cocking knob on the side? They used the 1928A1 iirc (no front pistol grip) early on, the cost and time to manufacture the Thompson, is what created the simplified Thompson models M1 and the M1A1. |
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The Jarhead just exiting the Higgins boat six pictures up in that same thread can also be seen to be carrying a 1928 with a drum.
Of course, I have to toot the family toot-o-ma-phone, and post this picture of my own father (center) advancing on the Nip airfield on Cape Gloucester, New Britain, December, 1943: 
He joined the 1stMarDiv when they showed up in Australia after Guadalcanal, and survived Cape Glouscester, (Pavuvu), Peleliu, and Okinawa. He got a commendation on Cape Gloucester . He always told me it was the stupidest thing he's ever done. He's still around, and is somewhat disappointed in HBO's "The Pacific", as he says it's spent far too much time making the Marines look like they were all drunks who hated their Officers, and hung out in Looney bins, Though he did say last nights episode showing the landing on Peleliu was about the most accurate he's seen yet. Except that they didn't mention it was 115 degrees and all the water was contaminated with oil... Later he carried a 1928 Thompson with a drum on Okinawa...oddly (to me) without a stock... |
