10-137 Garand Picture of the Day - Iwo Jima

[Mark in Rochester]

Waiting for the signal to advance over the ridge in the foreground to the Motoyama Airfield on Iwo Jima, Marines of the 1st Battalion, 25th Marines, wait beside a railroad in a shell crater. Iwo Jima - February 19, 1945

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[Bill Hollinger]

Does that BAR have a verticle foregrip???

[browningautorifle]

It does look like someone added something...wonder what he took it off?

[Mark in Rochester]

bayonet scabbard from the marine behind him

tip is exposed on the other side of BAR

[AZPhil]

bayonet scabbard from the marine behind him

tip is exposed on the other side of BAR

No look further down !
It does look like a VG on that BAR.
Good eye's Bill

[Mark in Rochester]

No look further down !
It does look like a VG on that BAR.
Good eye's Bill

OK I see it now

[frankderrico]

That verticle grip could be from a 1919a1 or an M9, than bolted to the BAR grip. Marine to the left has a granade launcher on his carbine and a 1911 on his hip.....Frank