.30 Carbine. 18" barrel length. SN: 781888. Parkerized metal finish with high wood walnut pistol grip stock and mounting a side folding stock with leather cheek rest. Semi-automatic gas piston driven carbine fed by detachable magazines. Top of receiver marked INLAND DIV. over the serial number. Chamber marked U.S. CARBINE / CAL. 30 M1 in two lines. Stock with an IO on the bottom of the pistol grip and {Circle-P} on the rear face. Folding stock with cast buttplate with B257614 * 4 marking on interior edge with leather cheek rest attached with three brass rivets. Two-rivet hand guard marked IO on interior. Barrel marked in three lines: INLAND MFG. DIV. / GENERAL MOTORS / 7-43. Blued flat bolt top, S marked Type I rear sight, S marked front sight, unmarked Type I barrel band with UI marked swivel, Inland logo marked trigger housing, WI marked hammer, M marked magazine release. Includes a 1943 dated Atlas Awning jump bag, an OD Green sling, a single U marked 15-round Type I magazine, and an oiler. A nice, early war M1A typical of the guns used by the 82nd and later the 101st Airborne during their early jumps.