From: m35products (m35prod@optonline.net)
Date: Mon Jan 12 2004 - 11:25:06 PST
...or your mouth ;)
----- Original Message -----
From: "chance wolf" <chance_wolf@shaw.ca>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 12:07 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] Normandy Trivia
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <m151@cox.net>
> To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
> Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 8:10 AM
> Subject: Re: [MV] Normandy Trivia
>
>
> > I had no idea how rare my cresent was! I have an ambidextrous
comination
> metric/stand cresent wrench!
> > Military issue with an XM-1 model number.
> >
> > I should try to get rich on e-bay, what should I start the bid at? Or
> maybe that guy will trade me his half track for it!
>
> You have to come up with a good story. Everyone likes a good story.
>
> "The XM-1 Combination Metric/SAE Crescent Wrench was first field-tested at
> the Army's Aberdeen Proving Ground evaluation facility in 1943, and
adopted
> for use in the European Theatre in February, 1944. The wrench was rushed
> into production in March 1944 in anticipation of D-Day requirements, and
all
> existing stocks were sent to Portsmouth, and then transferred to the
Liberty
> Ship 'William J.Clinton'. The Clinton was lost to enemy action in the
early
> hours of June 6, 1944, sending all existing stocks of 'Wrench, Combination
> Metric/SAE XM-1' to the bottom of the Atlantic off the French coast.
There
> the story would end but for a band of intrepid salvage divers who
discovered
> the wreck in 1968, and recovered the cargo. The wrenches (still packed in
> Cosmoline and in their original paraffin-paper wrapping) were warehoused
in
> Carentan until a fire destroyed the warehouse and contents in 1989,
leaving
> but a sole, salvageable item: one, single, solitary example of 'Wrench,
> Combination Metric/SAE XM-1'. You now have the chance to own this
> undeniably unique and rarest example of America's wartime manufacturing
> might for little more than a First Mortgage, and make no mistake - this
> opportunity will not reoccur in your lifetime!"
>
> Man. I feel...unclean. Like I should go wash my hands or something. :)
>
> P.T. Barnum
> MVPA #0001
>
>
>
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