Try to make a long story short. I saw some Army 1911s in my travels that weren’t standard. The picture of those guns is burned into my head. So decided I was going to have one like it built down the road and started chasing parts. I wanted a Contract Replacement Hard Slide with the drawing...

Here are a few images with information from my web site showing the pistol and doctor I spoke of in another post. I thought I'd shared this here before, but didn't see the thread when I checked. Anyway, it was nice to read of another Marine who was also wounded at Saipan, but also returned...