Original Wood Film Prop M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle From Ellis Props - As Used in Sands of Iwo Jima Lewis Gun Released from British Government Stores

Released from British Government Stores in the early 1990s we were fortunate to obtain a very few examples

moving coil speaker

and there is also a leather scabbard cover that goes over most if it

Original Item: Right from our illustrious Nepalese Cache of 2003

with just a few spots of oxidation

Original Wood Film Prop M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle From Ellis Props - As Used in Sands of Iwo Jima Lewis Gun Released from British Government StoresOriginal Item: Only One Available. Sands Of Iwo Jima (1949) is one of the most acclaimed WWII movies ever made. So accurate a portrayal of the famous Battle of Iwo Jima, culminating in the famous "Raising of the Flag" over Mount Suribachi, that the Marine Corps allowed the production to not only use the actual flag that was raised on that fateful February 23rd, 1945, but utilized three of the actual Marines who originally held the flag up in the scene