An ad from the June 1945 issue of The American Rifleman. This was a gift from ASM826 - beach reading he said, and was precisely right. It's very interesting, because the assumptions of an age long gone are preserved, like an insect in amber, in the articles and ads. Like the Irish policeman here (Shimerin' shamrocks!).The June issue would have been shipped in May, and so would have been put together in April. The war in Europe was still going on then, but it's pretty clear that everyone expected things to be over in months, not years. I wonder how much this expectation led to the decision to drop the atom bombs, rather than move forward with Operation Olympic.
I plan to most much of this issue over the next month or so. Thanks, ASM826!
I have that one or one close to it.
ReplyDeleteI think Omar Bradley is on the cover.
They are a window into a forgotten era, aren't they? Wait till you get to the classified ads, you could buy a revolver, send him a check, and he would box it up and mail it to you. No government intrusion. The same way you would order a set of binoculars or a book.
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