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Doing a rewatch of Saving Private Ryan.
This always struck me as someone getting the props wrong:
That sure looks like the same flashlight I carried at the end of The Cold War.
For the first time since the movie came out, I had the internet at my fingertips to check to see if the otherwise excellent propmasters had fucked up or not.
Turns out, it's no fuck up.
The MX-991/U is a descendant of the TL-122 which was a development of the Eveready 2964 dating all the way back to 1927!
Captain Hamill's is most likely a TL-122-B or -C and the plastic would have been OD green Bakelite.
Wow, I knew the lights we used in the 90's were old but had no idea they were THAT old... But it does fit with the "WWII era" gear we (Engineers) were issued for a lot of things... Neat!
ReplyDeleteI'm old enough to remember buying WWII surplus stuff for use in Boy Scouts. Canteens, rucksacks, flashlights, mess kits, etc. Nothing cost more than a couple of dollars. But you're right, you were carrying them toward the end of the Cold War. We were using them in the Marines in the 1980s.
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