A real machine gun on the side of the road

[sloughfoot]

It has been there for a long time in a glass box on the side of the road. A Colt "potato digger" machine gun. It has deteriorated over the years, but it is in public view on the side of the road.

Anybody else know where it is in Indiana?

 

[indyjohn]

It has been there for a long time in a glass box on the side of the road. A Colt "potato digger" machine gun. It has deteriorated over the years, but it is in public view on the side of the road.

Anybody else know where it is in Indiana?

Ft. Wayne VFW?

 

[sloughfoot]

Ft. Wayne VFW?

Nope.

 

[M67]

Terrible Hut

 

[sloughfoot]

Terrible Hut

?

I will try to get a picture posted tomorrow.

 

[BogWalker]

Neat, I'd like to see that. My courthouse has some sort of WWI-era artillery piece in front of it. They gave it a nice new painting and repaired the wheels here two or three years ago I think.

 

[sloughfoot]

Neat, I'd like to see that. My courthouse has some sort of WWI-era artillery piece in front of it. They gave it a nice new painting and repaired the wheels here two or three years ago I think.

It isn't in front of a courthouse or any public building. It is on a street corner on a state highway and a county road intersection.

 

[jjtroy912]

Must Have PHOTOS!

 

[Kentuckyblue]

38th and Lafayette rd?

 

[wtfd661]

South Milford

 

[Jeremy1066]

 

[rvb]

It isn't in front of a courthouse or any public building. It is on a street corner on a state highway and a county road intersection.

Is it 156.6 miles SW of Camp Perry??

-rvb

 

[sparkyfender]

I have no idea. But my interest is piqued........

 

[ctbreitwieser]

I hope it's not transferable. That would be a sin.

 

[jedi]

 

[KoopaKGB]

South Milford

That one is a prop. Pretty crude looking when you get close too.

 

[sloughfoot]

Yeah. South Milford. I didn't know it was a prop. I've been told that it's been there since 1923. If it is a prop, I apologise for misleading anybody.

Here is a pic...

 

[BogWalker]

Looks like a pretty decent mockup to me. Is there any reason it's there, or just because? Wonder if they have any problems with vandals.

 

[wtfd661]

The only reason I knew what you were talking about is we have a camper at Gordon's Campground and have driven by it quite a few times in the spring, summer and fall for the past 8 years. Never have stopped always look at it when driving by though, never have heard the story on it.

 

[rob63]

Very cool, it would have fooled me too.

It would make an interesting thread to show photos of all of the oddball military stuff you see here and there.

I was very surprised to discover that there is a 30 lb Parrott Rifle from the Civil War in a cemetery next to the Noblesville High School.

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