Carbine Photo of the Day

The magazine is a 30r hardback

Mag in Matt's recent post should look longer, but it is being pushed into his jacket.

It is two mags welded together.

Not too many people know who Herbert "The Cat" Noble was.  He was a Texan and...lets say...a bit of an underground figure in Dallas.  He was a gambler by trade and a man of the rackets. He ran a well-known backroom for gambling called "The Airmen's Club" and had a significant piece of the action in Dallas in the 40s.  This of course led to some "territorial disputes" between him and others along the same lines of profession. He became known as "The Cat" in the late 1940s when he survived many attempts on his life, 8 by some counts, more by others.  Time/Life sent a reporter and photographer to do a piece on him in April of 1951, when things were getting quite hot for him.  His wife was exploded by a car bomb not long before.  By the time the photographer from Life was with him, he had taken to being armed at all times.  Photos of him from the Life archive show him driving around with an M1 Carbine with 30 round mag on his lap, safety off, ready to go.  Without bayonet lug.  I wonder how many Carbines were out in civilian circulation by 1951?  Not that a man of his connections wouldn't be able to lay hands on one regardless.  Anyhow, in August of 1951, not too long after these photos, he let his guard down and went to go check his mail.  The bomb in the mailbox finally took the last life of The Cat, spreading him across the Dallas suburb pretty evenly.  I'm sure I've left big parts of his story out, but needless to say it's fascinating.  He even had a Beech Staggerwing airplane at one time that he wanted to use to bomb some of those who were after him.  Anyhow, here are some links about him, the story that Time/Life did, and the photos with the Carbine.  Enjoy!

https://books.google.com/books?id=jlEEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA69&dq=%22herbert+noble%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiOiZu8qMeCAxVfE1kFHdSnBhgQ6AF6BAgJEAI

https://books.google.com/books?id=kE8EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA40&dq=%22herbert+noble%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiOiZu8qMeCAxVfE1kFHdSnBhgQ6AF6BAgHEAI

https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,859260,00.html

https://www.nolandalla.com/nine-lives-herbert-cat-noble/

https://www.texasmonthly.com/true-crime/benny-and-the-boys/

"Viets had kept French Army weapons, abandoned when leaving Indochina"

Charlie-P777

Viets had kept French Army weapons, abandoned when leaving Indochina, that can explain the flip sight still on

US Special Forces instructor teaching bayonet use has a Type 3 Bayo lug, but also a rear Flip Sight