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17-8-25 Garand Picture of the Day
Jul 1944: Men of 2nd Regiment, 2nd Division, US Marine Corps coming off the front lines after 20 days of combat, Saipan, Mariana Islands
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There are no great men, only great challenges that ordinary men are forced by circumstances to meet.
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Yep, the real thing... look at all those bandoleers.
Real men measure once and cut.
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20 days in straight combat, living in the ground. A real test of men and equipment durability. I'd love to see what a new M1
rifle would look like after that particular episode.
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Never enough credit for those guys.
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I'd love to see what a new
M1 rifle would look like after that particular episode.
here you go
On 13 October the 164th Infantry, the first Army unit on Guadalcanal, came ashore to reinforce the marines
Guadalcanal campaign 7 August 1942 – 9 February 1943 (6 months and 2 days)
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He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose
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I sort of mean in my hands, I'd like to clean and examine it completely...
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3rd GI rear rank is the only one really smiling to be away from it all the others are probably just relieved to be rid of the horrors we have all seen the doco's and pictures what the PBI went through in the Pacific campaigns, a master stroke on MacArthur to sway Roosevelt with his Pacific campaign whilst others wanted to by pass them and starve the IJA out it turned out to be a very costly campaign of American lives.
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... a master stroke on MacArthur to sway Roosevelt with his Pacific campaign whilst others wanted to by pass them and starve the IJA out it turned out to be a very costly campaign of American lives.
My dad who was a veteran of the Pacific Campaign had no love for MacArthur. A lot of the PNG and Western Pacific veterans that I've known over the years shared my dad's opinion of the man.
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I was going to add Truman probably did the right thing in removing him at Korea before WWIII started but thought that would inflame a debate they all had their strengths & faults its just the PBI had to suffer when they got it wrong just like Market garden!
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