is that a gas trap?

[Mark in Rochester]

This GI is thoroughly enjoying this handful of French bread given him by liberated Frenchmen as the Allied Army penetrates further into France. Near Caf, France. 11 June 1944

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[browningautorifle]

It DOES look like the thinnest buttplate I've ever seen...but after D-Day?

[RCS]

Mark, Winchester continued to manufacture the solid buttplate & stock until mid 1942 while Springfield changed to the trapdoor buttplate in the fall of 1940.