25 “Illegal” Weapons WWII GIs Built From Scrap

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25 “Illegal” Weapons WWII GIs Built From Scrap

In February of 1945, a corporal from Dayton, Ohio waded onto the black sand of Iwo Jima carrying a machine gun that appeared on no Army list, cut out of a wrecked dive bomber by a sergeant in his own division. Much of what won that war came out of no factory at all.

Wait until you see Number 14: it started life as the empty can a man's dinner came in, and it guarded a perimeter better than a sentry could...