Hi,
I'm not a C&R person but I figured y'all might know.
My grandfather was a Lieutenant (2nd I think?) on USS Gosper in WW II. There's a photo of him I remember on a beach somewhere, wearing a sidearm.
Would that have been an M1911A1? If so, outside of getting the real vintage deal (which I figure would set me back $2k-ish???), what's the closest thing I can get now? Does anybody produce 1911's like the service ones from that time?
He also had some huge 6" or 8" knife which he told me they used against the Japanese who would swim up to the anchored ship and climb up at night and try to knife the men standing guard on deck. That's what I remember anyway (I was 6 when he told me this, so I might not have it exactly right).
Incidentally, IIRC he manned one of the guns (I don't know which) and described trying to shoot down kamikazes, and that the two ships anchored on either side of them were hit.
But about the arms....?
Thanks.
I'm not a C&R person but I figured y'all might know.
My grandfather was a Lieutenant (2nd I think?) on USS Gosper in WW II. There's a photo of him I remember on a beach somewhere, wearing a sidearm.
Would that have been an M1911A1? If so, outside of getting the real vintage deal (which I figure would set me back $2k-ish???), what's the closest thing I can get now? Does anybody produce 1911's like the service ones from that time?
He also had some huge 6" or 8" knife which he told me they used against the Japanese who would swim up to the anchored ship and climb up at night and try to knife the men standing guard on deck. That's what I remember anyway (I was 6 when he told me this, so I might not have it exactly right).
Incidentally, IIRC he manned one of the guns (I don't know which) and described trying to shoot down kamikazes, and that the two ships anchored on either side of them were hit.
But about the arms....?
Thanks.