13-3-31 Garand Picture of the Day

**Mark in Rochester** · 03-30-2017 11:28 AM

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**Highly Recommended** · 03-30-2017 11:28 AM

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**Bob Womack** · 03-30-2017 11:47 AM

Winter gear, thank goodness.

Bob

**browningautorifle** · 03-30-2017 12:40 PM

Yuk...winter warfare...even with winter kit it sucks.

**Flying10uk** · 03-30-2017 03:38 PM

Do you have a date for the picture please Mark?

**Mark in Rochester** · 03-30-2017 04:09 PM

Originally Posted by Flying10uk

Do you have a date for the picture please Mark?

No date, I was searching on Belgium icon

so this would put in December-January 1944

Snow started showing up around 19 December if that helps

**fjruple** · 03-30-2017 05:40 PM

It does look cooold!!

--fjruple

**Flying10uk** · 03-30-2017 06:05 PM

Around the Battle of the Bulge time then.

So would those U.S. cargo trucks in the 2nd photo be diesel or petrol powered? If diesel I'm guessing that they would be having problems with the fuel freezing/waxing.

**Paul S.** · 03-30-2017 09:04 PM

I'm guessing petrol powered and not diesel because the one facing the wrong way at the side of the road has a 'GASLOLINE' sign on its front end. I'd guess they were using it (that truck) as a mobile filling station, hence the sign.

**browningautorifle** · 03-30-2017 10:37 PM

Originally Posted by Paul S.

they were using it (that truck) as a mobile filling station, hence the sign.

That's the way I took it too.

**Flying10uk** · 03-31-2017 10:30 AM

I didn't notice the gasoline sign probably due to the small screen of my lap top and so assumed that the truck on the side had simply broken down.

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