union switch an signal 1911a1

[Sergio Natali]

Originally Posted by padredan

unc's union switch & signal served him well ,as did my Remington rand , both are war horses to be passed down . a bit of a back story I serve as a chaplain to the men and women residents of a war veterans home and have for nearly 15 years while recently talking with one of the female world war two residents , she asked me did I carry a .45, told her yes I did while in viet nam , I told her a Remington rand . then she told me ,well I worked at singer for awhile and inspected the pistols there and then went to union switch and signal ,where she inspected them . I showed her the picture and she told not all had been parkrised , next few days I will take it by for her to look at .

padredan

FWIK the parkerizing machinery was installet at the US&S plants for Carbine components only in August 1943 unfortunately it was too late for use on pistols because of the impending contract callcellation, that's why all US&S pistols were finished with DU-LITE which has kind of a blue tint to it.
If you lay a "parkerized" pistol next to a real US&S in good light, you'll see the difference.

Best regards.

[padredan]

ty, what I am finding out , I knew no way unc's pistol was ever refinished and was stored mostly in a trunk with all his other world war two items , including a couple of lugers ,a browning hi power and a c 96 mauser , which I inherited .

[padredan]

this picture will show the difference in the two

[padredan]

shown is the pistol belt and holster that my uncle wore on the night of june 6 1944 when he parachuted into france , he never told me much about the union switch and signal he carried in it ,accept if you kept it half way clean ,it would always shoot .