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Upper picture caption should read: "after you qualify today you never do this with your sling again"

They are Marines could be late as 1942

Interesting jacket, is that a field jacket liner?

Webster's book "Parachute Infantry" is a must read.

Dad was with the 40th Inf. in the Pacific, he told me he carried the pick rather than the shovel, he would break the ground with the pick and scoop it with his helmet, said he could get low fast. On...

Probably four more guys with weapons at ready with the photographer.

Well you got Ike, Bradley, Churchill and two USA generals, they need the music...;)

Guadacanal

Keep your interval.

They could be airborne a couple of them have trousers that look the part, but I don't think they are Marines--none of the gear looks stolen LOL,

Marketgarden?

I bit on the Stoner upper from Midway a couple of years ago. I have had a lot of fun with this setup. After I had a couple of light strikes on the primers I read about the enhanced firing pins and...

Manila?

Maybe the lighting but the receiver on the Garand almost seems to be in the white...

Must be England
The boxes look like mortar bomb cans.
These pics must be pre-D-Day exercise shots, pants have pressed creases, the guys are too clean.

On the M-1 in foreground is that an M-3 cleaning rod attached to the side, handle down?

I have read of a Korean man drafted into the Japanese army fought against the Russians in Manchuria, taken prisoner conscripted into the Russian army, taken prisoner by the Germans and THEN was taken...

The rifle on the right, what's that around the pistol grip of the stock?

Robert McNamera, whose parents were never married, came from Ford Motor Company to the Defense Department, was famous for saving money, insisted on using the wrong gun powder in the 5.56 rounds,...

U.S. Military Dates of Manufacture

"A Rifleman Went to War" by McBride, WW1 sniping. He also wrote "The Emma Gees" both books first hand account of an American ex-National Guardsman in the Canadian Army

The rifleman has yet to shave but is carrying two bandoliers and wearing a cartridge belt too, hope he didn't need all those rounds.

Armscor is offering a $2 rebate per 50 rd. box of the .30 Carbine

GI to the driver's left smoking has a nice bullet crease in his helmet.

This one works well:

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Well, now that link takes you to a full page of scopes the top one is the one I use, it is 5m long in case you have a long barrelled...