Earliest pic of a carbine with bayonet lug

[ccmax]

Hello,

 

What is the earliest dated photo of an M4 carbine with attachment for bayonet that you have seen? Not talking about the field improvised lugs but actual factory applied pieces.

 

Regards

Cesar.

[BOB K. RKSS]

Haven't seen a dated photo, but the m-4 carbine Bayonets should have first use in mid-1944.

[Gliderinf]

mid 45 in the US,(possibly) stop looking for an excuse

[Greg Robinson]

I've seen photos of the M4 bayonets in the field during WW2 since they replaced the M3 trench knife as a general purpose "bayonete-knife" and so was not necessarily intended to be used with the M1 Carbine. But the carbines with bayonet adapter didn't see field use until mid 1945, at the earliest. I've heard reports of some used on Okinawa, probably by Army troops since I seriously doubt the Marines got their hands of them that early.

[2ad82recon]

Hi Cesar..late February 1945 in Camp Maui on Hawaii..there is a picture of some Marine Officers in Harlan Glenns book on the USMC.

 

But this is open to interpretation as the date is only speculative.

 

The only one that carries any creedence is of Black Army troops on Okinawa in July 1945

 

ALL other photos after that are of Occupation Troops

 

NO pictures have yet surfaced of ETO troops with bayonet lugs

 

Regards

 

LLoyd

[Guest boyt44]

 

 

 

Here is a photo from "A Pictorial History of the Second World War", an 8-volume set published around 1946-47.