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4 Sept 2023 Garand Picture of the Day
GIs of the 357th Regiment, 90th Infantry Division have just received word that their squad will be granted a thirty day furlough at home, plus two months of travel time. Every soldier pictured here received The Purple Heart in the battle of Dillingen, Germany
, February 6, 1945.
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose
There are no great men, only great challenges that ordinary men are forced by circumstances to meet.
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War's over for them. Smiles are more than understandable.
34a cp., btg. Susa, 3° rgt. Alpini
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Yep, they'll survive. Now, what's the weapon the guy at left is holding? A captured sporting rifle or shotgun?
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Originally Posted by
Mark in Rochester
thirty day furlough at home, plus two months of travel time. Every soldier pictured here received The Purple Heart in the battle of Dillingen,
Germany, February 6, 1945.
Thus, the smiles I suppose.
Men like these knew sacrifice and privation, came home and built a better country and did their best to make our country and the world a better place.
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Normal every day challenges back home must have seemed insignificant for the most part after daily life at war !
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Yep, they'll survive. Now, what's the weapon the guy at left is holding? A captured sporting rifle or shotgun?
It appears to be an O/U shotgun, but then it's not a great photo.
"You are what you do when it counts."
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Shotgun
"Dreilings" were popular in Europe, that's a double barrel shotgun over a rifle. Collectors here call them "Drillings." In Europe a hunter usually got a day assigned to him and had to be ready to shoot whatever presented itself: grouse, rabbit, boar, deer. A drilling was a prized GI souvenir.
Real men measure once and cut.
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That makes sense too, something at the time that a guy wouldn't have seen.
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Probably not a guy in there that's seen his 29th birthday. At least they'd most likely see another one now at this point.
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