September 7th is the 98th birthday of
Richard
Cole, (born, 1915) who is one of just four living Doolittle Raiders. He was General
Doolittle's co-pilot.
Today is also the birthday of Dr.
Ludwig Vorgrimler (born 1912 in Freiburg, Germany; died 1983) Vorgrimler was
the designer of the Spanish CETME rifle, from which sprang a plethora of
roller-lock descendents from HK including the G3, HK21, and MP5. His bolt
design was also copied by the Swiss for their excellent PE57 and SIG 510
rifles. (Although the Swiss felt obliged to mount a "beer keg"
charging handle on the right side of the receiver, for the
sake of familiarity to Schmidt-Rubin rifle shooters.)
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