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Early ce 1941 unmolested

Wow, probably one of the nicest ce 41s I've ever seen. Well done ajs, and thanks for posting. Mike is right, pic stickied for ref. :thumbsup: ajs, is it a blank siderail?
 
That's cool, mine is a blank as well, I think an Erma subcontract. Again beautiful ce 41. Did an ANZAC bring it back?
 
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Wow, probably one of the nicest ce 41s I've ever seen. Well done ajs, and thanks for posting. Mike is right, pic stickied for ref. :thumbsup: ajs, is it a blank siderail?


I have a ce 41 with a b suffix. The side rail has the Mod 98 on it and it has one WaA359 and
two WaA37's. Very nice rifle ajs.
Bob32268
 

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bob32268 : Would like to see more of your b suffix rifle , more pic's ? :biggrin1:

O.K. Roofus, here are the attachments. This rifle is very interesting (at least, to me). I have a capture
paper with it. It was brought back by a Sgt. J. W. Darden who was in the Co A, 526th Armored Inf.
Batt. The unit fought on the "north shoulder" of the Bulge facing SS units. It was called upon to defend Stavelot from Peiper's spearhead. You can check out the whole store in Battle of the Bulge, Vol. 2 byHans Wijers, published by Stackpole.
The rifle has seen a lot of heavy field usage, has a m/m bolt and the f/p is a WWI.
I feel there might be a 50-50 chance this rifle was used by the Waffen SS.
I also like the two digit serial no., only one that I've ever had.
Tks,
Bob32268
 

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bob ....very nice and yes, very interesting to me as well. My dad was a T4 tank driver with Patton { 610th TD Battalion } and was at the Bulge, Bastogne, etc. He would rarely talk about any of it, like most who were there.
When he was still alive I never had a lot of interest in the war, but since he passed away in 2002, I have really gotten into it. Wish he were here today, I have a ton of questions !
Again, NICE rifle, have you shot her ?
 
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No, I haven't fired this one yet. It has a very nice bore (well taken care of). But one day
I will get it to the range and try it out. So sorry to hear that your father has passed away.
They were truly the Greatest Generation. I had 5 uncles in WWII, two of them would actually
talk to me about it. One uncle was in tank battalion attached to the 45th ID, and another was
a BAR man with the 100th Inf Div. These last two would really talk to me about it, all have passed
away by now. They are really missed.
Tks,
Bob32268
 
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Picture of my dad next to his "ride " !! Unsure of the year, and location, as he did not have many pic's taken during the war .
 
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Great pic, the T/D he is standing by looks like an M10 with a 76m/m gun.
I'll bet he saw a lot of action in his unit.
Tks,
Bob
 
Unsure when and where the picture was taken, but the following is a very brief history of his unit, compliments of the Tank Destroyer Website : tankdestroyer.net


610th Tank Destroyer Battalion :

Unit History: Activated on 11 April, 1942, at Camp Barkley, Texas, as a towed battalion. Arrived Greenock, Scotland, on 11 June, 1944. Landed at Utah Beach on 31 July. Committed to action 10 August near Craon, France, and participated in elimination of Falaise Pocket. Raced east to the Moselle River by September. Converted to the M36 in September–October, the first unit to do so. Helped clear Maginot Line fortifications in November. Ordered to the Ardennes on 21 December. Helped eliminate the Bulge in January 1945. Battled through Siegfried Line in February near Brandscheid. Transferred back south in March. Crossed the Rhine at Worms on 29 March. Raced through central and southern Germany in April and reached the vicinity of Munich by month’s end. Ended war in Ingolstadt. Attached to: 4th, 26th, 35th, 42d, 80th, 87th Infantry divisions; 101st Cavalry Group.

Combat Equipment: 8/44 - Towed 3" Gun; 9/25/44 - M36.
Code Name/s: Nuisance, Highshoe

Campaign Credits: Northern France...............Jul. 25, to Sept. 14, 1944

Rhineland........................Sept. 15, 1944 to Mar. 21, 1945

Ardennes-Alsace..............Dec. 16, 1944 to Jan 25, 1945

Central Europe.................Mar. 22, to May 11, 1945
 

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