Jungle style

The practice of "jungle style" magazines originated in World War II for the M1 carbine, M3 "Grease Gun", and Thompson submachine gun. Audie Murphy, one of the most decorated American combat soldiers of World War II, was reported to have utilized taped M1 carbine magazines. Thompson submachine gun users frequently taped two 20-round magazines together to speed reloads and compensate for the limited capacity. This spurred the official development of the 30-round Thompson magazine, which included an experiment welding two 20-round magazines face-to-face (dropped in favor of the 30-round magazine). The United Defense M42 submachine gun was occasionally issued with two 25-round magazines welded face-to-face. Taping magazines together to speed up reloading became so common among troops using the M1 Carbine that the U.S. military experimented with the "Holder, Magazine T3-A1", which came to be referred to by some infantrymen as the "Jungle Clip". This metal clamp holds two M1 Carbine 30-round magazines together without tape. == Image gallery ==

File:Ethiopian Soldiers Korean War.jpg|Ethiopian soldiers deployed with U.S.-made weapons in Korea, 1953. The M1 Carbine magazines are taped together. File:SEAL MP5N.JPEG|U.S. Navy SEAL with MP5 SMG and two magazines clamped together during Operation Desert Storm in 1991. File:Magasin d'un F ass 90.jpg|Detachable box magazine for a SIG 550 with studs for stacking multiple magazines together. File:SIG-551-p1030048.jpg|SIG SG 551 with three magazines held together. File:OSN Saturn special purpose unit (506-19).jpg|Vityaz-SN with a fastening device that joins two magazines together. File:10-22 Jungle Magazines.png|Two Ruger 10/22 magazines attached. File:AR-M16-Tape-Jungle.jpg|M16 magazines attached with duct tape. File:M1 Carbine Magazine Clipped.jpg|Two 15-round M1 Carbine magazines attached by a clip. File:United Defence M42.jpg|A United Defense M42 with magazines welded together. == See also ==