6-13-18 Garand Picture of the Day - Guadalcanal

[Mark in Rochester]

Guadalcanal

Battle-stained American infantrymen cleaning their weapons next to foxhole after a bloody battle for a 1,500-ft. peak euphemistically called the Grassy Knoll.


Location:Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands

Date taken:1943

Photographer:Ralph Morse

Information

Warning: This is a relatively older thread This discussion is older than 360 days. Some information contained in it may no longer be current.

[#1oilman]

You would want to be certain of no counter attack field stripping a gun to that extreme on the battlefield

[browningautorifle]

That would be why so many showed up for rebuild in such dire conditions after those long campaigns. Lots of corrosive primers and no down time, wet conditions and continuing action...make for a beat up rifle.