I am sure the Germans were confused!!!

[A. F Medic]

No Magazine??

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[gunner]

More about the the delicious thing in the "Kochgeschirr" :-) Today we are confused if there are no Japanese at Neuschwanstein castle.

よろしく( hope thats right)

Gunner

[A. F Medic]

I do not know what he is eating in the mess tin. Dried eggs rehydrated!

[gunner]

It looks like these kind of dogfood that we had in the army ! We exchanged the most of it against fresh eggs and chicken or ham with our farmers. Funny, they liked this food. Only the cookies where usable. We mixed them with shoecream and used it to start a fire.

Regards

Gunner

[Jim K]

I don't get the point. Is the picture from WWII? Is it of interest because an oriental-looking American soldier is eating scrambled (powdered) eggs? Is it because his M1928A1 doesn't have a magazine in it during a break?

There were plenty of Americans of both Chinese and Japanese descent in the WWII U.S. Army, including a whole regiment of Japanese-Americans. (They told German prisoners that Japan had changed sides!).

Those powdered eggs were no better in the 1950's than in 1943.

Since having a loaded magazine in a TSMG could be dangerous, it was always removed and the bolt let go forward except under combat conditions.

Edited to add: The patch looks like that of the 34th (Red Bull) Infantry Division, while the Japanese-American 442nd RCT was, IIRC, an independent unit.
FWIW, the 34th was originally formed from the National Guards of Iowa, Minnesota and the Dakotas.

Jim

[DaveHH]

He was in the 2nd SS Panzer Div. "Das Reich" He told me that the German soldiers had never seen people like the Japanese American or African American soldiers before. When they finally were able to surrender to an American unit, there were black US soldiers and his men thought they were Senegalese or Africans, not Americans. Thus the surprise.

[John Sukey (Deceased)]

I wonder it the germans thought the japanese had changed sides?

[A. F Medic]

John.

In several books that I read that the Germans had thought that exactly. They were told that also by the capturing Japanese Americans!