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PTO Marine Question.

jon math

jon math

Rifleman
I've always looked at the MG team of DML's Hunt and Peck and wondered if they were armed correctly. Would a USMC light 30 team have been issued just a pair of .45's. as defensive personal weapons? I figure the gunner has the MG to carry, he's not going to be able to fire a carbine. The assistant is carring the tripod and an ammo can, he too would find it hard to operate a carbine. Once the gun is set up the gunner is running the gun, the assistant feeding it and helping site the weapon, again no time to be shooting a carbine. The gun itself would have riflemen around it making sure they were not flanked, so again no need for the crew to be shooting a carbine. If the gun were to be taken out, and the crew not killed, I'd have to imagine there would have been plenty of "spare" rifles about to pick up and continue fighting with. Many of the photos I've examines really don't tell the story, and I've never run into a member of a Marine MG team. BAR gunners, riflemen yes, many in fact, but MG guys seem to be rare. Any help would be appriciated.
Thanks
Jon
 
For what it's worth, a friend of mine's uncle was an army mg man in the pacific. He describes being armed with a carbine as well. The DID '30 cal guy, with the addtion of a machete and a carbine is a good place to start.
I know it's not marines, but it's PTO, and I doubt they would have been that different.

My pals uncle still has his carbine.
 
Thank you! I was contacted by another member who has a relative who did time in the PTO on a MG team and he also conformed that carbines were common among the MG teams. Thanks to all for the info.
Jon
 
As a matter of course in the Marine Corps, any member of a machine gun team that is not actually pulling the trigger would be armed with a rifle (or carbine) from the time the Corps started using machine guns through today.

Every Marine is a rifleman.
 
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