Howdy Bordo:
BTW, very cool!
-Same, been living here in Sandy about 20 years, not from here originally, but, in spit of a few quirky things, it's a great state. Most of the people are very friendly, the mountains are georgeous, S. Utah is spectacular and there's no shortage of outdoor activities from which to choose. Thanks for the warm welcome, Guntha!
I had a house on E. Diamond Way, just north of Sego Lily Drive (2006-2015). One of those quirky things is having to pay for the instant background check if you don't have a CCP, and not having to do the instant background check if you do. I do miss the gun shows in Sandy and Gallenson's gun shop up in Salt Lake. That's were I got most of my reloading stuff.
Maybe he knew my dad. Dad was also at Saipan on board an LCI gunboat. They supported the Marine landings. He picked up a samurai sword, I think an Ariska rifle (his had the bayonet permanently attached under the muzzle and it swung up and out and locked. The bayonet in my earlier post, from what I remember him saying, is a training bayonet. One of the few stories he told me about the war was while on Saipan and before his ship sailed to Guam for that invasion he made a beer run through the jungle. On the way back to the ship he fell into a shell hole and screwed up his back. He celebrated his 30th birthday during the Guam invasion. His ship got shot up by Jap 75mm shore batteries and half the crew was killed or wounded. Dad never got a scratch. He fired the rockets from the ship to shore as the Marines were 1,000 yards from the beach.
