12-127 Garand Picture of the Day - China

[Mark in Rochester]

9,000 ammo rounds piled around soldier.



Location:China

Date taken:May 1957

Photographer:John Dominis







photo credit :ryochiji's

The sign next to the M1 says “中国重庆造”
Chongqing was the WWII war-time capital of Nationalist China. With so much aid from the United States going over to the Nationalists through the Burma road and transport planes flying “over the hump” from India, it is very likely that the tooling for M1 Garand production was transferred to supplement Nationalist armories.

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[oldcarjunkie]

Cool pics !!

[browningautorifle]

I'll take one of those...did you get a load of the markings?

[Paul S.]

Somebody at LIFE need to go to remedial mathematics. 500 rds per box times 17 boxes equals 8500 rounds.

[Bill Hollinger]

Note in the first photo the heal markings a backwards swastika??? Wow!

[Mark in Rochester]

The "left-facing" variant is favoured in Bön and Gurung Dharma; it is called yungdrung in Bon and Gurung Yantra in Gurung Dharma. Both the right-facing and left-facing variants are commonly employed in Hinduism and Buddhism.

[Bill Hollinger]

Thanks Mark. I just find it odd that a swastika, in any configuration, is on a US M1 Garand even if it isn't really US.