{"id":16530,"date":"2020-08-23T09:00:14","date_gmt":"2020-08-23T14:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2020\/08\/23\/tab-episode-72-the-us-m1917-in-british-home-guard-service\/"},"modified":"2020-08-23T09:00:14","modified_gmt":"2020-08-23T14:00:14","slug":"tab-episode-72-the-us-m1917-in-british-home-guard-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2020\/08\/23\/tab-episode-72-the-us-m1917-in-british-home-guard-service\/","title":{"rendered":"TAB Episode 72: The US M1917 In British Home Guard Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mcSDkhENoh4?autoplay=1&#038;controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>In May 1940, with the threat of invasion, Britain raised the a militia force. This Home Guard would eventually number more than a million men. The challenge was how to a these men, many would eventually be equipped with the US M1917 &#8211; in this video we explore the American rifle&#8217;s service with the British Home Guard. <\/p>\n<p>Chapters:<br \/>\n0:00 &#8211; Intro<br \/>\n0:50 &#8211; Early history P13, P14 &#038; M1917<br \/>\n03:45 &#8211; The M1917 enters Home Guard service<br \/>\n04:55 &#8211; A closer look at the M1917<br \/>\n05:25 &#8211; The M1917 at the range<br \/>\n08:55 &#8211; Archival footage of Home Guard Training<br \/>\n11:10 &#8211; Conclusion <\/p>\n<p>Be sure to check out our accompanying article for this video here &#8211;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/armourersbench.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/armourersbench.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you enjoy our work please consider supporting us via Patreon, TAB is a viewer supported channel and any help is very much appreciated!  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This Home Guard would eventually number more than a million men. The challenge was how to a these men, many would eventually be equipped with the US M1917 &#8211; in this video we explore the American rifle&#8217;s service with the British&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2020\/08\/23\/tab-episode-72-the-us-m1917-in-british-home-guard-service\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">TAB Episode 72: The US M1917 In British Home Guard Service<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":16531,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}