Visitors to the NC Museum of History who view the workshop of inventor David Marshall "Carbine" Williams get only a glimpse of the colorful character who died 37 years ago this month.
Raleigh Times staff writer D.I. Strunk described some of the story in Williams' obituary.
He was a colorful backwoods man turned inventor-genius.
But he also was a man who lost his freedom and then regained it, in a
sense, with guns.
In 1940, in 14 days, he developed the weapon that
became the M-1 Carbine. He was honored by the late Gen. Douglas
MacArthur, who praised the weapon Williams invented as "one of our
strongest contributing factors to our victory in the Pacific."
A motion picture, "Carbine Williams," released in 1952 and starring Jimmy Stewart, was based on Williams' life.
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