13-075 Garand Picture of the Day

[Snafu]

Okinawa, 11 May 1945
The caption on this photograph reads "Teamwork-Riflemen draw sights on a Jap hillside position as a flame-throwing tank shoots a tongue of flame at the enemy. This photo was found in the camera of a wounded combat photographer."

From the Photograph Collection (COLL/3948), Marine Corps Archives & Special Collections

OFFICIAL USMC PHOTOGRAPH






March 1943
The lead article was about Marine combat photographers, an issue that came out while I was in basic training at Camp Swift, Texas.

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[Bill Hollinger]

Is that a Reising?

[RCS]

That is a Reising, he is holding the 12 rd magazine too, alot were dumped by the USMC. It could never be a Thompson, they should have sent the Reising to Russia as Lend Lease in the M3 tanks

[Bill Hollinger]

12 rounds does seem like a whole lot for an automatic

[RCS]

The Reising also used a 20 round magazine too. Eugene Reising designed this smg before WW2, H&R produced around 100,000 by 1945, both the Model 50 with the wooden stock and the Model 55 with the wire folding stock, most of the production going to the USMC. The Reising fired both semi and full auto from a closed bolt and used a bolt retarding mechanism. The Reising was not a sucessful military weapon, but was better used as a Police or plant guard weapon, there weren't enough Thompsons available.