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My buddy's uncle was on a crash boat in the Pacific during the end years of the war. These boats were basically PT boats without the offensive armaments. They were used to pick up downed pilots that had to ditch and manned by Army air corpsmen not Navy. He mentioned to me that his uncle told him that they had a Remington Double barrel shotgun on board. I thought that was a mistake and ridiculous to boot. So, he goes online and does some research since the uncle is long gone at this point. I have to ask the question, did the military buy some of these from Remington before they went out of production even well before WW1 started? Were they model 1900's or 1894's? Maybe the Army had some stock stored somewhere and this was deemed a good place to use this obsolete equipment? Anyway, here is the link for the specs of the boat. Click on Armaments for a list of small arms that they carried. https://warboats.org/crashboat.htm
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Interesting question.
My dad was in the Navy and went around the South Pacific to the islands we bypassed to tell the Japanese the war was over. The armory on board had Winchester 95 lever actions in 30-06.
After the first shot the rest are just noise.
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USAF RET 1971-95 ![[Linked Image from jpgbox.com]](http://www.jpgbox.com/jpg/57865_80x60.jpg)
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Interesting, I've never heard of the US using crash boats in WWII. This isn't entirely on topic, but based on the information at the link many of the crash boats were bigger than the standard 80' ELCO PT boats that were used throughout the war and a bit slower than the PT Boat as well. Some more information for those interested: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crash_boats_of_World_War_II
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I have become addicted to English hammered shotguns to the detriment of my wallet.
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Some of those WWII crash boats were built near Cambridge MD. The boat builder that built the deadrise I owned had worked there and from then on built his boats with a curved stem like he had learned there.
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Mom's middle brother operated a crash boat near a Gulf coast flight training base during WW2.. Mom was a young girl and took the train from Savannah to Gulfport to visit him. It took two days as they were constantly pulled over to make way for troop trains which had priority. Gil
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Interesting. My father was Navy captain of a crash boat during WW II. He wouldn't talk much about it; he did recall the story of their rescue of a Japanese pilot who had been shot down and had an automatic pistol hidden under his hat or helmet. The other Gil
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My buddy's uncle was on a crash boat in the Pacific during the end years of the war. These boats were basically PT boats without the offensive armaments. They were used to pick up downed pilots that had to ditch and manned by Army air corpsmen not Navy. He mentioned to me that his uncle told him that they had a Remington Double barrel shotgun on board. I thought that was a mistake and ridiculous to boot. So, he goes online and does some research since the uncle is long gone at this point. I have to ask the question, did the military buy some of these from Remington before they went out of production even well before WW1 started? Were they model 1900's or 1894's? Maybe the Army had some stock stored somewhere and this was deemed a good place to use this obsolete equipment? Anyway, here is the link for the specs of the boat. Click on Armaments for a list of small arms that they carried. https://warboats.org/crashboat.htmCould these have been over and under Remington model 32’s, they were in production till 1944?
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