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26 May 2021 Garand Picture of the Day
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05-25-2021 03:19 PM
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I want to examine those M1s, in 1940...
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(M1 Garand/M14/M1A Rifles)
Examine away...
Weren't these the maneuvers where they were so short of tanks they painted up signs saying "TANK" and hung them on the sides of trucks?
We snicker, but the U.S. Army had a couple of things going for them: the Garand
rifle and a nearly unlimited supply of deuce and a half trucks. What is it they say? "Amateurs talk about strategy; professionals talk about logistics." Between Fire and Maneuver and the trucks, we had things reasonably covered, even if we didn't know it.
Bob
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I don't know if that a defect in the photo but it looks like smoke from an aircraft to simulate an aerial gas attack which makes the soldiers appears to shooting at an attacking aircraft. The target being a field artillery caught on the road. The field guns in the background looks like American copies of the French 75mm guns;'
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Originally Posted by
Bob Womack
Examine away
I mean the markings, they would have been the earliest of the lot. All the original parts we seek...would like to have seen the serial numbers of that unit.
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The marks to his upper left look like high altitude contrails to me.
Bob
"It is said, 'Go not to the elves for counsel for they will say both no and yes.' "
Frodo Baggins to Gildor Inglorion, The Fellowship of the Ring
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