Tuesday, December 10, 2013

NC: Carbine Williams, an amazing story

Via comment by Mike  on Object of desire: M1941 Johnson rifle




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.


Read more here: http://blogs.newsobserver.com/pasttimes/behind-the-carbine-williams-story#storylink=cpyMmm

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