Eugene wrote:
>You should all be ashamed not to know what a 1941 Johnson is !!!!
>Five minutes in the corner gents...on your knees. It was in competition
>with a certain other battle instrument and lost out to Government
>beaurachracy......was adopted in small quantities by the Marines...and was
>adopted by a foreign country....Netherlands....
Hold on, are you forgetting that a 1941 Johnson could be, not as you
are saying, that excellent rifle designed by the great genius and
Marine, Melvin M. Johnson, but the excellent 12.5lb, magazine fed, recoil
operated, locked breech, rotary bolt, air cooled 1941 Johnson Light Machine
Gun? This weapon was of course designed by Melvin M. Johnson too.
Jim Gilmore MVPA # 5843
Member Ist Michigan AOD Chapter MVPA
Great Lakes Chapter MVPA
Ohio Motor Pool Chapter MVPA
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Ontario Military Vehicle Association
Midwest Military Vehicle Assocation
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