26 May 2021 Garand Picture of the Day

[Mark in Rochester]

Army Maneuvers
Date taken: June 1940
Photographer: Phillips

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[browningautorifle]

I want to examine those M1s, in 1940...

[Bob Womack]

Examine away...



Weren't these the maneuvers where they were so short of tanks they painted up signs saying "TANK" and hung them on the sides of trucks?

We snicker, but the U.S. Army had a couple of things going for them: the Garand rifle and a nearly unlimited supply of deuce and a half trucks. What is it they say? "Amateurs talk about strategy; professionals talk about logistics." Between Fire and Maneuver and the trucks, we had things reasonably covered, even if we didn't know it.

Bob

[browningautorifle]

Examine away

I mean the markings, they would have been the earliest of the lot. All the original parts we seek...would like to have seen the serial numbers of that unit.

[fjruple]

I don't know if that a defect in the photo but it looks like smoke from an aircraft to simulate an aerial gas attack which makes the soldiers appears to shooting at an attacking aircraft. The target being a field artillery caught on the road. The field guns in the background looks like American copies of the French 75mm guns;'

[Bob Womack]

The marks to his upper left look like high altitude contrails to me.

Bob