D-Day Garands in lower Normandy!!!

[seanl]

I have just returned from a 3 week trip to Europe where I had the opportunity to tour the American D-Day Landing Sites including Utah and Omaha Beach as well as Pointe du Hoc and Sainte-Mère-Église where there is a nice little Airborne Museum (housing several Garands). Now I don't where the Museum sourced these Garands from, but all are date correct and could have come ashore during the invasion...

-Serial # 534299 has the original lockbar sights and equipped with a grenade launcher
-Serial # 1438086 also with lockbars
-Serial #957764, lockbars and "Betty" engraged in stock

I actually took a full day tour and of course have a ton of pics, here's as small sampling. For anyone traveling in France, if you're near Paris, it's only 2 hours and change by train to Bayeux and the D-Day Beaches.

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