The Annoyed Man
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My Old Ithaca 1911-A1
I just wanted to share this because it's an interesting pistol.
Gun history: My father was a 2nd Lt. in the Marine Corps, E Co., 2nd Btn, 9th Marines, 3rd Div., who was WIA in Cushman's Pocket on Iwo Jima - one of 10 survivors of The Pocket. When he was medically evacuated, his personal sidearm - a Government model .45 he had privately purchased at a hardware store in Glendale, California before shipping out, was taken from him. Later, having recovered from his wounds (he was shot through and through, the bullet hitting him in the solar plexus and exiting his back, just left of his spine about half way down, with a Japanese rifle round), he had been promoted to Captain and was training on Guam for the assault on Japan when the war ended. During that training, one of the men in his company, a PFC, was screwing around in his barracks tent with this particular pistol, when he had an accidental discharge which blew off a large piece of his other hand. My father confiscated the weapon and kept it as his own sidearm until he was discharged after returning stateside in late 1945 or early 1946. Figuring that the Marine Corps owed him one Government Model .45 which was never returned to him, he took this one home with him, and it has been in my family ever since. I inherited it when he died in 1990 of Pancreatic cancer.
I'm not a pro photographer, but these pictures should do.
Minor Mods:
I just wanted to share this because it's an interesting pistol.
Gun history: My father was a 2nd Lt. in the Marine Corps, E Co., 2nd Btn, 9th Marines, 3rd Div., who was WIA in Cushman's Pocket on Iwo Jima - one of 10 survivors of The Pocket. When he was medically evacuated, his personal sidearm - a Government model .45 he had privately purchased at a hardware store in Glendale, California before shipping out, was taken from him. Later, having recovered from his wounds (he was shot through and through, the bullet hitting him in the solar plexus and exiting his back, just left of his spine about half way down, with a Japanese rifle round), he had been promoted to Captain and was training on Guam for the assault on Japan when the war ended. During that training, one of the men in his company, a PFC, was screwing around in his barracks tent with this particular pistol, when he had an accidental discharge which blew off a large piece of his other hand. My father confiscated the weapon and kept it as his own sidearm until he was discharged after returning stateside in late 1945 or early 1946. Figuring that the Marine Corps owed him one Government Model .45 which was never returned to him, he took this one home with him, and it has been in my family ever since. I inherited it when he died in 1990 of Pancreatic cancer.
I'm not a pro photographer, but these pictures should do.
Minor Mods:
- Pachmyer wrap around grip (my wedding band scratches the front strap, so I put this grip on to protect it.)
- 18 lb. recoil spring and a nylon buffer pad on the recoil spring guide. I shoot the pistol semi regularly, and I'm just trying to protect it a bit from modern ammo.
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