15-019 Garand Picture of the Day

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[Bill Hollinger]

PING!!!

[mmppres]

great picture casing an clip all in the air an looks like the gi is realy squinting

[Bob Seijas]

Yes, PING, so now it's time for the crafty enemy to charge LOL

[Mark in Rochester]

101st Abn on the island. Market Garden

[RudyN]

Walkie Talkie in the foreground.

[CINDERS]

Plenty of evidence under his weapon of consistent engagement

[Mark in Rochester]

Combat Infantry: A Soldier’s Story
Donald E. Anderson
P119

With two Garand rifles in each hole, there was the potential for a lot of lead going out into the jungle at a rapid rate. The problem was, if both men fired simultaneously, they would often run out of ammo at the same time. The Japs began to count the shots from the hole from their positions twenty to thirty feet away. Hearing the “ping,” they knew they just enough time to jump up and charge across the last few yards to get at us with the bayonet before we could reload new clips.

After we had been attacked and infiltrated several times, we devised a little trick.
In each Hole, one man would rapid-fire a full clip as fast as he could. His buddy would load a full clip and hold his fire. As soon as the empty clips ejected, the Japs would assume that all the weapons were empty and jump up and charge. The rest of us would open aimed fire as soon as the enemy was up and running toward us. The shocked Japanese would be shot in droves, as the massed fire from all those rifles cut them down within a few seconds.

This worked for a short time until the enemy figured out what was happening.