Posted on 12/31/2004 3:00:06 AM PST by csvset
The Associated Press
MILFORD -- A fisherman found a heavy machine gun on the ice of a creek near Fort Riley, and Geary County sheriff's deputies later found two more.
The three Browning .50-caliber guns were all in working condition, Sheriff's Lt. Sandy Popovich said, but none was loaded.
Sheriff Jim Jensen said he didn't know how the guns got there, and the Army's Criminal Investigation Division is looking into the matter.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers owns the land, Jensen said, and soldiers from Fort Riley have used it for training. The guns were found in an area accessible to the public.
The guns were turned over to the Army.
Popovich said the fisherman found the first machine gun at about 9 a.m. Wednesday at Madison Creek, about two miles north of Milford.
He gave it to the Geary County Sheriff's Department, which searched the area and found a second gun under the ice and the third in the grass on the creek's bank.
Jeff Coverdale, a Fort Riley spokesman, said no missing weapons had been reported to his office.
It is definitely a machine gun...
My attitude is "FINDERS KEEPERS"!
Ok, so I won't be able to play with them an can only visit them when the wife is gone and after dark and no one is around!
I can't afford to feed them and there are too many people in the area who might get suspicious of the rata-tat tat! So all I can do is look!
Hint: they were in the wings of a wrecked plane that had crash-landed under some trees on Kahoolawe Island and that plane was still sitting there, undiscovered until I found it in 1975.
For the Freeper airplane buffs: what kind of plane was it? Bonus points if you can tell me what year it crashed - it had the star and white bar national insignia on it.
How come I never found any machine gun when I went fishing?
Of course, it may be the Liberator or Maurader [spelling?] -- B-24 & B-26 -- but I don't remember them having as many .50 Cal guns.
Republic P-47 ?D "JUG" 1944...
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Think : Blender set to 'Frappe'...
Yeah, a P47 that's gotta be it. Corsair only had six guns, P51 had four? Bombers had 12+.
If it went down late in the war, it could have been the P-47N, which was designed specifically for pacific operations, but the '42 ammo suggests to me that it was an earlier model.
What say you, USMCVet?
Yep. You guys have to be correct. I was surprised about the lack of information but when Mo mentioned the Thunderbolt I knew he was correct. The P-47 was the only fighter we had in World War Two which carried eight .50 caliber machine guns in the wings.
Well, there's this 10-foot area between my house and a nice wooden backdrop of a nursey-school.
Perfect.
LOL! Very clear explanation!
Carolyn
Bump!
Only problem is, they're talking about machine guns.
My guess is it was a Navy craft...Wildcat?
I'm pretty much the same way with women.
I think the Grumman Wildcats only had 6 MGs in the wings
Republic P 47D Thunderbolt. The white bar insignia was introduced on August 14, 1943, and was used until 1947. As the plane was used as an escort for B 29s, and was lost on a training mission, I will go with 1945. I figure they were burning older ammo for training purposes.
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