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===M1 Carbine===
===M1 Carbine===
[[M1 Carbine]] rifles are used by the sergeants and officers in the film including Sgt. Keck ([[Woody Harrelson]]), Sgt. McCron ([[John Savage]]), Cpt. Gaff ([[John Cusack]]), Cpt. Staros ([[Elias Koteas]]), and 2nd Lt. Whyte ([[Jared Leto]]).
[[M1 Carbine]] rifles are anachronistically used by the sergeants and officers in the film including Sgt. Keck ([[Woody Harrelson]]), Sgt. McCron ([[John Savage]]), Cpt. Gaff ([[John Cusack]]), Cpt. Staros ([[Elias Koteas]]), and 2nd Lt. Whyte ([[Jared Leto]]). M1 Carbines were issued only after the Battle of Guadalcanal.
[[File:M1CarbineLateModel.jpg|thumb|none|450px|Korean War Era M1 Carbine, with Birch Stock, Adjustable sight, bayonet lug, and twin magazine pouch - .30 Carbine]]
[[File:M1CarbineLateModel.jpg|thumb|none|450px|Korean War Era M1 Carbine, with Birch Stock, Adjustable sight, bayonet lug, and twin magazine pouch - .30 Carbine]]
[[File:TRLM1Carbine-1.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Capt. Staros ([[Elias Koteas]]) has an M1 Carbine slung over his back. Note the carbine has on the barrel an anachronistic bayonet lug found on the M1 from the Korean War and on.]]
[[File:TRLM1Carbine-1.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Capt. Staros ([[Elias Koteas]]) has an M1 Carbine slung over his back. Note the carbine has on the barrel an anachronistic bayonet lug found on the M1 from the Korean War and on.]]
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[[File:TRL-FieldGun1.jpg|thumb|none|600px|The gun seen on the left as Colonel Gordon Tall ([[Nick Nolte]]) needs to talk with Capt. Staros ([[Elias Koteas]]) after the assault.]]
[[File:TRL-FieldGun1.jpg|thumb|none|600px|The gun seen on the left as Colonel Gordon Tall ([[Nick Nolte]]) needs to talk with Capt. Staros ([[Elias Koteas]]) after the assault.]]
[[File:TRL_type38_2.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Colonel Gordon Tall ([[Nick Nolte]]) thinks about what happened which allows a rear view of the Type 38.]]
[[File:TRL_type38_2.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Colonel Gordon Tall ([[Nick Nolte]]) thinks about what happened which allows a rear view of the Type 38.]]
The Thin Red Line is the 1998 World War II film directed by Terrence Malick and is the second movie adaptation of the James Jones novel, the first being a 1964 film of the same name. This film features a very accurate, almost complete arsenal of genuine WWII Japanese weapons, a stark contrast to the original film where not a single Japanese weapon was seen. The film is a fictional account of engagement by the U.S. Army to capture an entrenched Japanese position during the Battle of Guadalcanal in World War II. The majority of the film was shot in Queensland, Australia, in the South Pacific, far more accurate to the location of the Solomon Islands than the original film's filming in Spain. One of the notable characters in the film is Cpt. Staros (Elias Koteas), an intelligent, sensitive Army captain who refuses to send his men to their certain death on a futile frontal assault on a fortified Japanese position, which puts him at odds with the ambitious Lt. Col. Tall (Nick Nolte). Other notable characters include the cynical and shrewd 1st. Sgt Welsh (Sean Penn), Pvt. Bell (Ben Chaplin) who is heavily devoted to his wife, and Pvt. Witt (Jim Caviezel), a deserter who hates the Army, but loves the men of Charlie Company enough to rejoin them during the battle. The film's title derives a quote from Jones's book which reads, "they discover the thin red line that divides the sane from the mad... and the living from the dead..." Despite its seven Academy Award nominations, this film is often overlooked due to its release in the same year as Steven Spielberg's World War II film Saving Private Ryan.
The following weapons were used in the film The Thin Red Line:
M1 Carbine rifles are anachronistically used by the sergeants and officers in the film including Sgt. Keck (Woody Harrelson), Sgt. McCron (John Savage), Cpt. Gaff (John Cusack), Cpt. Staros (Elias Koteas), and 2nd Lt. Whyte (Jared Leto). M1 Carbines were issued only after the Battle of Guadalcanal.
A native scout is briefly seen with a British Lee-Enfield No.1 Mk.III* rifle during the landing on Guadalcanal. Another scout carries an SMLE in a deleted scene.
Pfc. Doll (Dash Mihok) steals an M1911A1 hanging from a bunk in the ship carrying Charlie Company to the island. He notably uses it when he charges a Japanese machine gun emplacement and fires it at them. Basically, every other U.S. soldier also has an M1911A1 as their sidearm, although only a few soldiers such as Captain Gaff (John Cusack) are seen using them.
Several U.S. soldiers are seen using yellow MK II Hand Grenades. Before having the more appropriate olive-drab color, Mk. II grenades used on Guadalcanal were painted bright yellow to show they were high-explosive. At one point we see Sgt. Keck (Woody Harrelson) straightens the folds on the pin of his grenade, which proves to be a fatal mistake on his behalf when the pin pulls too easily while still attached to his belt.
Japanese soldiers are seen mainly using Arisaka Type 38 rifles. A few Arisakas are carried by U.S. soldiers after the Hill 262 battle, as well, Pfc. Beade (Nick Stahl) in a deleted scene.
The issued sidearm of the Japanese Imperial Army is the Nambu Type 14 Pistol. One soldier is seen using it to commit suicide when refusing capture after Hill 262 is taken. Later in the film, we see Pfc. Doll (Dash Mihok) showing off a Nambu pistol to fellow soldiers in a personnel transport truck, likely taken off a dead Japanese soldier on the Hill.
