[DoughtyOne]

With appologies I should have referenced post 58, not 48. Thanks.

[ArrogantBustard]

M-14. Sort of. It's acutally a Fulton Armory M1-A. That is, a rifle made with a new, civilian production, semi-auto only receiver, but otherwise on the same pattern (and with some actual GI parts) as the military M-14.

[Redleg Duke]

Yep, those are Thompsons. They were the later models that took the stick magazines. The original ones took a 50-round drum with a coil spring you wound to feed the cartridges.

[Shooter 2.5]

As I believe you already found out, The sergeant in "Combat" carried a Thompson. The rest of the squad carried M-1 Garands and "Little John" carried a BAR[Browning Automatic Rifle].

No M-14's were used in the program. The major differences between the two rifles is the designers moved the gas system from the end of the barrel and added a box magazine to the M-14 which were major improvements.

Just to throw out a little confusion, the designation of M is just the first Military plan that was approved. The helmets, canteens and hate to tell you this, but the Thompson machine gun also was titled an M-1. Later there was an M1A1 Thompson.

Paratroopers, drivers, officers and support troops carried the M-1 Carbine. I found we produced more M-1 Carbines than any other weapon in history. My book that reports that is a little old and I'm sure by now, the M-16 had surpassed that.