12-212a Bonus Garand Picture of the Day - Rangers

[Mark in Rochester]

United States troops of the Ranger Battalion in training with British Commandos, somewhere in the United Kingdom. U.S. Rangers performed their first raid alongside British Commandos at Dieppe in 1942. (National Archives photo)




Darby and his Rangers return from a mission in 1944. (Photo courtesy of the Darby Foundation)

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[browningautorifle]

Is that not a 1903 down on the far end?

[emmagee1917]

Yep , prob'ly the squad's grenader . The first picture has another early BAR , but unlike the other one , this one looks to have had the wood fore end cut down for cooling .
Chris

[browningautorifle]

I took the wood on this one to be the new style of BAR forend...

fore end cut down

[Bill Hollinger]

That top picture looks more like the Aleutians to me.

[Paul S.]

That top picture looks more like the Aleutians to me.

Most likely, it's the Loch. Small boats training was a part of syllabus.

Map: The Commando Dark Mile

[emmagee1917]

Picture is blurry , so I'm not positive. The butt does not have a shoulder rest , so I assumed all early . I could be wrong .
Chris

[CINDERS]

There was also an RAF operative landed on Dieppe as part of the raid with a specific task in mind, his guard had orders if it looked that their capture was imminent then he was to kill the RAF person without hesitation from memory I do not think the RAF operative knew of the executive order.
Damn good read "Green Beach" By James Leasor