1941 M1 Carbine. Inland Div #539771 serial making this a Dec 1941 receiver and Underwood May 1944 barrel. Rock Island build.
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The entire 6 million+ .30 cal carbines made by Inland Div of General Motors between 1941 and 1945 had no bayonets. After the war U.S. armories “went over” most carbines and added the bayonet, peep site and other updates for Korea and later Nam.
This carbine has all the right marks in all the right places for this typical post WWII build. Like most armory Korean “bring homes”, it was “put together” from a 1944 barrel and a late 1941 receiver and bolt. 5-44 Underwood barrel. Receiver is stamped 539771 making it from the #1 production run in 1941.
Bayonet and oil can have I. S. logos, for Thomas I.S. Bork, manager of Winchester foundering at Saganaw. The three receiver bolts are W, for Winchester, S.G. for the Saginaw Works and the third too worn to tell. Stock is stamped with the cherry bomb Inland Div stamp, Rock Island stamp and the patina is remarkable.
Condition? I’m not up on lingo but I’d offer B+ to A-.
Fully operational.
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UNDERWOOD 5 – 44 with Cherry Bomb/Falling Bomb stamp.
Inland Div Cherry Bomb / Falling Bomb stamp. Obvious R.I. Rock Island armory.
