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D-Day Invasion Glider Pilots On Landing Craft Return 1944
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D-Day Invasion Glider Pilots On Landing Craft Return 1944
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did anyone find the M1?
More than one, too.
2 rifles. One in the foreground, down low on the picture, the other one on its right. You see the stock on the rope.
Few Glider Pilots had issued M1's, as Brit/Canadian Glider pilots didnt have 303's. Every Glider pilot I ever interviewed were Browning pistol wearers.
This is a great photo, taken at a time of guys chewing the fat, and caught without any posing......totally natural...brilliant;) The guy in the foreground with a cigarette appears to have a PARA wings on his shirt???
Can't really say, since I don't know exactly how that looks like, but I enlarged the picture and found a third rifle. Just behind the first one.
Really great picture!!!
Gil, the collar dog is actually a winged propeller, WWII USAAF officer collar 'brass'.
Their air force was part of the army until 1947, so USAAF personnel wore 'branch insignia'.
That Sir, is the sum total of everything I know about WWII US uniforms.
note the three Gi's with helmet scrim, leather gloves and one with rigger made leg pouch another with a gas brassard - perhaps pathfinders?
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Glider pilots were part of the USAAF. They were withdrawn after landing and sent to the rear. Pathfinders were all infantry with additional skills. They remained in the fight with their units and were detached back to make up Pathfinder sections when another drop was planned.
BEAR
No date on the photo, but judging from the face hair they were in the field a day or so, fighting to stay alive.