So not HK but still pretty interesting. Plus, I haven't posted for a while.
I have been playing the CMP lottery for a couple years now and sent in my application for a Round 3 1911A1. I received a Rack Grade1943 Remington Rand. Pretty nice pistol for a Rack Grade. It is a Type 2 Remington Rand and I believe still has the original finish as there are no arsenal re-marks. It does have some replacement parts, i.e., the barrel and grips. Shipment info from WW2 indicated that it was most likely sent off to the Navy in Norfolk.
After I received it, I started sending off FOIA requests, first to the Army. Army reported back that they had received it from the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Indiana in the '90s, So, I then sent off a FOIA request to the Navy.
After several weeks, I finally got a response. The pistol first resurfaced (lol) in April 1975 in the DoD Small Arms Registry as being issued to the ballistic missile submarine
USS Alexander Hamilton (SSBN-617). After the
Hamilton was decommissioned in 1993, the pistol was sent to the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Crane, Indiana, then later to TACOM in Anniston, Alabama, and the finally out of the DoD to the CMP......then on the me
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