14 March 2024 Garand Picture of the Day

[Mark in Rochester]

was drafted into the United States Army for a term of two years. Stationed in Swansea, Wales, he helped ferry supplies across the English Channel to Normandy. After the war ended, he completed his service in March 1946 at Fort Lewis, Washington.

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[browningautorifle]

He'd have been posted to the north fort of Ft Lewis, most of those shacks are gone now. Just an open area. Google maps shows buildings but when you go to the ground outside the perimeter fence it's all gone. I remember being there in north fort watching daily as they tore down the shacks down south fort from world war one. That was about 1975...