My buddy's uncle was on a crash boat in the Pacific during the end years of the war. These boats were basically PT boats without the offensive armaments. They were used to pick up downed pilots that had to ditch and manned by Army air corpsmen not Navy. He mentioned to me that his uncle told him that they had a Remington Double barrel shotgun on board. I thought that was a mistake and ridiculous to boot. So, he goes online and does some research since the uncle is long gone at this point. I have to ask the question, did the military buy some of these from Remington before they went out of production even well before WW1 started? Were they model 1900's or 1894's? Maybe the Army had some stock stored somewhere and this was deemed a good place to use this obsolete equipment? Anyway, here is the link for the specs of the boat. Click on Armaments for a list of small arms that they carried.
https://warboats.org/crashboat.htm
