My Dad too ...

My Dad never went overseas in WWII just served state side. Hardly any of his platoon came back. Paratroopers. I think the youth today have no idea what are parents went through. Thanks for your dad's service and his suffering. My pop is still going at 96. I have an M1 carbine he bought in the 60's for peanuts from the government.

he praised the weapon that never failed him, after all if it did he probably wouldn't have made it home at all

Some call it the 'Korean conflict'...like Vietnam is was no 'conflict'....it was a damn 'war.' Korea was a horrible war that MacArthur should have been allowed to take all the way to China.

I appreciate him for his service because i am a Korean immigrant and without his service and other Americans’ sacrifice i wouldn’t even exist. RIP

@judas380, there was a Texan named Audie Murphy that is kinda famous that used an M1 Carbine. Well, and a few times 50 BMG. He was around a whoping 112 pounds. So your grandfather was in good company.

Good man.

God Bless your grand pa.thanks for your story thumbs up.

My grandpa was in the battle of the bulge too. 106 infantry,company M. MG gunner. I own a early inland m1 carbine and my dad has a '44 rock ola. They are great guns. God bless you friend. Maybe our grandpas crossed paths.

That was a beautiful story, I respect you and your grandpa

You're lucky to have that. A couple of years later no one was allowed to do that. I had found a brand new AK-47 left on the field after a fire fight in '69. I kept it until I was ready to go back home but was not allowed to take it with me. A year earlier I think it was allowed but the barrel had to be plugged with lead first; then they stopped even that. Thanks to your Dad. I remember working with some the 5th SF briefly. They lived with the Mountanyards.

My dad told me about the M1 he carried during the second world war!

I also like M1 so much.

I have my dad's M1. I clean and oil it every 2 years. 3rd Army, Patton. Saw duty in the 21st Century Oakland, CA. Carried it to recover my Stolen truck :)

전쟁터에서 혹사를 당한 ㅇM1 CARBINE는 30야드 탄착점이 2인치입니다.

you dun just let the ATF know your family secret

Please, state your full name and street address and move away from that weapon

Don't worry its a war story, he came back from Vietnam and bought the carbine at the hardware store. They use to sell pistols and rifles at the hardware store before the communist gun control act of 1968.

My dad never said, but he was a head cook in the CBI, Staff Sgt., but he was part of the peacetime draft and probably had a 1911. He shot my Mom's carbine very well, Mom got it in a swap for room rent from a Marine that had it in a stateside duffel bag so it was probably a souvenir. Dad would be 101 this year.

My dad would have been 94. I miss him

Sorry for lose I thank him for defending our country God Bless you and your family

My mom's mother has her grandfather's m1 carbine which is special because it was personally autographed engraved by carbine Williams himself

At least they have the imagination to make up pronunciation lol

Aztec Warrior But it’s wrong

If I agreed with you, then we'd both be wrong.

Awful Penguins They sure are :D

old is gold

Awful Penguins lpwpwwpwos

I like all of his videos with old guns, and almost all with new guns, best channel by far on youtube.

Awful Penguins true :D

7.7 and some teeth. Miss you Gramp.

....the French shared that view in Indochina...where the M-2 was quite popular......

Where does the other 90% go?

I love the videos in which you talk about the history surrounding a given firearm. That is what makes these old guns so attractive to many of us; even more so when stories can be associated with a specific gun. For example, my CMP M1 Garand has a serial number that dates to the 50s. The gun is immaculate except for the butt plate, which is ground up and chewed looking. My guess is that my gun did guard duty somewhere during the Korean War. If our guns could tell tales....

Hickok' Check your magazine spring in the bad magazine it may be installed the wrong way around ie: the high portion of the spring pressing on the wrong end of the follower? It appears the primer side is lower than the nose of the shell not allowing bolt pickup of the last round?maybe the spring high end is pressing on the forward part of the follower?Jim

hickok45 thanks Hickok!!!!

Audie Murphy used his M1 Carbine to end a whole bunch of Germans. Probably more than when he used the 50 Browning on that burning Tank Destroyer. So in the right hands . . . it's VERY deadly.

I recall reading a news article about police in England shutting down a whole street as a crime scene because someone found a .22 cartridge. What happened to the country that birthed the Magna Carta?

@@srtaylor1911 Government.

Alan, at the conclusion of the Second World War, the industrial output of the United States was fully half of that for the entire world. They didn't call us "The Arsenal of Democracy" for nothing! In Detroit, the Willow Run plant (constructed by Ford Motor Inc.) making B-24 Liberator heavy bombers was the longest, largest assembly line in the world at the time. More than a mile in length, entirely under one roof.

The Greatest Generation. They literally saved the world.

The guy in jail, David Marshall Williams, was a relative of mine.

Carbine Williams👍

Brings back memories of basic training at lackland AFB. Before entering the service in 1965, I used to go deer hunting with my dad so I was familiar with a bolt action 30 06. When they handed me the m1 carbine I thought you've got to kidding but that little rifle was amazingly accurate. After basic, when we qualified it was with the M16.

My Dad also carried an M1 Carbine as well. He was in the 104th Division (Timberwolves) the entire time they were in Europe and carried an M1 Carbine since he was the company bugler and a runner. Growing up, he never spoke of his Army experiences, whether he liked his M1 Carbine, and didn't like hunting. Watching war movies with him he would always yell at the movie saying, "Keep your head down damn it." or "That's the gun I carried." He basically said to my brother and I that he didn't like guns. He discarded everything from his Army days immediately after getting home when we asked about where they were as young boys. All we have of his time in the Army is pictures and one of his medals. Not until late in life did we come to realize why he felt as he did. My brother and I found out after both parents were invited to an early teen classroom (in San Diego) to discuss their WWII and Depression-era experiences. My brother videoed the event and mailed me a CD copy. They were both in their early 90s at the time. (The teacher in the classroom was my brother's stepdaughter and my niece.) Later in the discussion, a young student asked my father if he ever killed any Germans. Watching the video of the event and not expecting the question, I was stunned at his answer. Apparently, after injuring his hands with barbed wire (another long story where he was awarded the Bronze Star), he was on limited duty until he recovered. He was ordered to take German prisoners by himself to the rear. When he asked the officer "How am I going to shoot with these hands", the officer responded, "Can you still use your trigger finger?" while wiggling his own. When he responded that he could, he was ordered to guard them while taking them down the road. He said he was also ordered to shoot them if they tried to escape. Although my father never said in the video whether the Germans understood English or not, I reasoned they couldn't but obviously could see he was injured. In the video, he said he told them "No funny business." Down the road, they went. Later, the Germans broke and ran trying to escape. After ignoring his order to stop, he said he shot and killed all three. I was stunned and immediately called my brother to discuss it. He was expecting my call and said he was just as stunned. Soon after this trip to visit my brother on the west coast, my father came down with cancer and died 3 months after it was discovered. I've often thought of the shooting incident and understood his dislike of guns, why he discarded his uniform and most of his medals, and why he never spoke of the war. Although a very strong-willed and hard man in his early years, he had mellowed as he aged. I reasoned he felt guilty about shooting those prisoners given how he was raised Catholic and sent all my siblings to Catholic school. I wish during those short months before he passed that I had told him "Dad, you were doing your duty and forced to shoot them when they tried to escape; especially since you were ordered to shoot if they did". Perhaps he never told us while we were still young since he feared we would think badly of him. Nothing could be further from the truth. We were all proud of him as a father and as a man. He was a shining example of what a parent is supposed to be; both him and my mother. I own an Inland-made M1 Carbine today that I will never sell since it's in honor of my father.

se per will you stop peeing on parrots?

William Large My dad was in the 82nd Signal Battalion in the early 1960s, and he still has his old M1 carbine in his gun cabinet.

Thanks for your service, and for understanding about how well made the M1 Carbines really were! Not even the AR of today has that reputation for quality!

Brave men who went into battle, with such a tiny weapon!!

@@rmd8873 ....also the weapon of choice for night time sniper work with the infra-red scope...(M-3)...sold mine awhile back..got leery of carrying that wet battery...[complete with acid]..on my back!...definition on that scope was sharp and clear out to 100 meters or so...better than the starlight that replaced it....

if you fire one these days..or depend upon it for defense...be sure to load it with hollow points..it will deliver about the same amount of smack as a .357.....

CarBEAN... rhymes with farSEEN!

Hahaha thats funny yea really

This rifle to me is as big as an m1 Garand is to a normal person

@@frankpienkosky5688: Within 50 yards, .30 Carbine is a phenomenal hunting cartridge for Deer, but you're probably good out to 75 yards easy.

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Nautilus Mine would probably be the Karabiner Kurtz 98 or the PTRS-41. As for sidearms, probably Colt's .357 magnum that was used at the time. The Tokarev, or however you spell it, is pretty cool too. Most guns the Japanese used were based off of other countries' designs (type 98 = British Bren machine gun, type 99 = German Mashinepistole 30) so those don't really count.

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Ron Real I would love to own one, but they're a little out of my price range.

Ron Real I had the same in Hellenic Air Force together with a G-3. I loved it.

Originally on the M-1 for me, later on the M-16. Loved both of them...

@@danielbush5438 get a new price range

@@andreasfilis9001 huh, the Greeks had M1 carbines? How long ago was this, out of curiosity? I know they still use the G3 today.

Korean War Soldiers were shooting past 250m at advancing Chinese Infantry. The .30 Carbine is most effective to a maximum of 150m to 200m. Otherwise, it's a little cartridge with really big bite.

I have read the the .30 cal carbine round is equivalent in power to .357 magnum round.

Treasure it.

Same, I have my grandpas M1 from The Battle of the Bulge. I cherish it more than all my others.

That's one hell of an inheritance, don't take it for granted, take care of that precious thing!

Why isn't this guy on primetime ?

The price-tags on these things nowadays are just criminal. Price gouging galore.

When I went to basic in 1984, we shot the M-16 with a .22Lr converter bolt. We never even saw a 5.56mm.

Go buy one. It will make you feel good. Kind of a connection with the past and your father. My father hated it and carried an M1 rifle in Korea as a platoon and company commander.

god bless him

A lot of complaints came from soldiers who were shooting far beyond the m1's maximum effective range. The 30 carbine round flies at 2000 fps and has great penetration, meaning that with ball ammo it's probably going to pass through. No 30 carbine expanding round is pretty devastating, they're used quite often against Hogs.

Most of the complaints are from people who never fired the carbine are as has been said they are comparing it to the 30.06 Garand. Different rifles have different uses just as you have different shovels for different uses.

smart men

They werent nazis

@@lucaslaino7292 Warriors that got caught in a dynamic not of their making.

@@wisconsinfarmer4742 dont think they were so much warriors either .if they were warriors tjey would fight.anyway good for that fella with the carbine

Hell if I had an American Windchime pointed at me I'd surrender too 😂

Treasure it.

Lt. Audie Murphy.... atop that flaming tank destroyer.....

There's a lot of famous people who had m1 carbines

My mom's grandfather met carbine Williams the inventor of the weapon. Carbine William's name was engraved on the butt of the gun, and the gun hasn't been fired in possibly decades. Im not telling a lie, it's true and probably worth thousands of dollars because of the engraved name of carbine Williams.

CoD WaW, that's what I'm talking about

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Treasure them.

What is the market value for one today?

@@paulegelhoff1391 I got mine for $900 but I have seen them range from $1000 to $1500. A correction about mine, the barrel is dated 8-44 and the receiver is 43.

I was your 69th like

Don't change it

Yes!!

Treasure it.

I've read the Rockola made ones are some of the most expensive to buy nowadays.

Thanks, but I don't recall ever having heard it pronounced differently from the way I say it. I can't imagine any other way to saw it.

You'd be surprised how often people mess it up.

Only one way to say it: "May God almighty curse this Sag-in-awe recirculating ball power steering pump, that hath stained His faithful's new driveway once again. From its Creation day to endtimes will this design shed fluid so long as fluid remains in its reservoir"

It's simple to pronounce really... never heard it mispronounced.

Only utter idiots could mispronounce it.

.256 Winchester Magnum. Holy cow that's a caliber I've never heard before and I didn't know they made M1 Carbines for that caliber.

Treasure them.