Saw this picture

[JimF4M1s (Deceased)]

I don't remember which site it was on, but it was dated 1944.

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[shadycon]

Lady carrying water can??GK

[USGI]

I think I have a caption for that one saved somewhere - and another picture taken within a few minutes of that one. I'll see if I can locate them. - Bob

[gsimmons]

Are they glider infantry or just infantry? Notice the M1A1.

[browningautorifle]

I'm thinking glider infantry.

[USGI]

Jim, I found my picture with the file name I had added "M1A1 in Normandy" - that didn't help much, but then I found I had saved the following link. Hope this helps. - Bob

http://www.90thidpg.us/Research/Orig...rbineNormandy/

[browningautorifle]

It says this pretty clearly...

More likely than not, he is a forward observer for the 90th Artillery, which was in direct support of the 82nd AB Division in the first week after the June 6 landing. In gratitude for their outstanding fire support, the 82nd AB gave a dozen M1a1 Carbines to the 90th Artillery.

[JimF4M1s (Deceased)]

I liked the polka dot dress

The M1A1's were just a bonus.

[imarangemaster]

One of my favorite:



Funny thing is, re-enactor "stitch nazis" say that Carbine users seldom had the pouch on the stock, and almost never had more than one pouch of spare mags. This picture shows two pouches on the belt and one on the stock. I have seen numerous pictures to the contrary of what the "experts" says. My dad said on Iwo, he used a pouch on the stock and another on his belt.

PS: I know from being a Civil War re-enactor, and being an American History teacher, that often the "stitch nazis" crave a uniformity that never really existed. They quote statistics from photographs. The first thing the Instructor told me in my college Statistics 101 class was that "Statistics is the art of making numbers say what ever you want them to say."

[firstflabn]

84.2% of statistics cited on the internet are made up on the spot.

I can't help it, but when someone says "more likely than not," what I hear is: "I have nothing to back up my opinion, so I'll impute a false precision to it by claiming to be authoritative." (hence the parody above)

Now if someone says it like this: "I've seen about a dozen instances and 6 or 7 of them looked the same", then I can readily accept that. "More likely than not" means more than a 50% chance. How would he minimize other possibilities - like finding it laying on the ground?