Help identify a WWII rifle?

[Toast]

Can someone tell me what the top rifle is? Its hanging in the National WWII museum in New Orleans. If you haven't been there, go. Thanks in advance.

 

[hmb]

That would be a Johnson Rifle.

 

[Prebanpaul]

^^^^^^^^^ what this guy stated. IT is a really cool rare rifle.

 

[Punisher29073]

My! What a big Johnson rifle..... Awesome 90's reference.

Ryan


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[Hink]

I was in there earlier - excellent museum, with the small exception that the descriptions of the exhibits don't always match laterally with the exhibits. This is one of these - the rifle description is below and to the side of the rifle itself.

Did you see the two MoH? And Jack Lucas's exhibit?

Another question - in looking through both the Atlantic and Pacific, I saw Springfields and Garands, M1 carbines, and even a collapsible M1 carbine, but no Enfields. Was the use not prolific enough to be included in an exhibit or is there just not such an example in the museum's inventory?

 

[Toast]

Yes, I saw the MoH's. First time I've seen a real one. I thought I saw an Enfield or two in the European theater. The 4D movie was great. You get driven over by a Tiger Tank. They drop the nose of a B-17 out of the ceiling in front of the screen and the flash of the Atom bomb was blinding. Next stop, WWI museum in KC.