11-261 Garand Picture of the Day - Ordance

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Landing boats pouring soldiers and their equipment onto the beach at Massacre Bay, Attu Island, Alaska. This is the southern landing force on May 11, 1943. The American and Canadian troops took control of Attu within two weeks, after fierce fighting with the Japanese occupying forces. Of the allied troops, 549 were killed and 1,148 wounded -- of the Japanese troops, only 29 men survived. U.S. burial teams counted 2,351 Japanese dead, and presumed hundreds more were unaccounted for. (LOC) #

Here are some photos of the two tone (green & brown) helmet nets used by both the Canadian and US Army units. The Canadian 13th Inf used the M1 helmet with the two tone net at Kiska in Aug 1943

Looks like an 03 leaning against the gas can. What is just behind it? Looks like a scoped rifle, but looks too big for an 03A3.

That's an M1 leaning against the gas can. I think you'll find that's not a scope in the background but other equipment lying with a rifle.

You're probably right. I thought it looked like an 03 striker knob just above the pistol grip.

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James Franklin Bell (January 9, 1856 – January 8, 1919) was Chief of Staff of the United States Army from 1906 to 1910.


USS J. Franklin Bell (APA-16) was a Harris-class attack transport that served with the US Navy during World War II.

J. Franklin Bell (AP-34) was laid down in 1918 as an Army transport by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation of Camden, New Jersey; completed March 1, 1921 as a passenger and cargo ship named Keystone State; turned over to the Pacific Steamship Company May 28 and renamed President McKinley June 9, 1922; and transferred to Admiral Oriental Lines December 21 to operate in the Pacific until laid up in Seattle in 1938.

The Army purchased her October 26, 1940, renamed her J. Franklin Bell, and converted her into a military transport. She was transferred to the Navy on December 26, 1941; and commissioned in ordinary before commissioning in full at San Francisco April 2, 1942, Captain H. J. Grassie in command.