Marines sitting on a bench with their rifles at the Parris Island training base.
Location: Parris Island, SC, US
Date taken: November 1941
Photographer: Dmitri Kessel
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Marines sitting on a bench with their rifles at the Parris Island training base.
Location: Parris Island, SC, US
Date taken: November 1941
Photographer: Dmitri Kessel
https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...44_large-1.jpg
The DI with the 1903 probably shows the troops how to shoot tens all day long.
Thee were no "TENS" on the tagets in 1941- only Fives.
Strange that they would have Garands at Parris Island towards the end of 1941 and then be shipped off to the first large Pacific engagement (Guadalcanal) almost a year later with 1903's. Either the Brass preferred the 1903 over the Garand or the U.S. industrial base couldn't gear up fast enough to produce enough Garands for both the Army and the Marines.:confused:
Those guys had no clue that December 7 was just around the corner.
That line reminds me of many observations from the Pearl Harbor books At Dawn We Slept (Gordon Prange) and Day of Infamy (Walter Lord). Lord, especially, relayed the events with a wistful irony that portrayed America's gullible lack of awareness of what was coming.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pattern14
Bob