21 Dec 2021 Garand Picture of the Day

[Mark in Rochester]

Soldiers with 120th Infantry Regiment, 30th Infantry Division enjoy Christmas care packages sent from home, December 1944.

The 30th Infantry Division (nicknamed Old Hickory in WWI) landed at Omaha Beach on Jun. 10, 1944, and entered combat five days later. The division took part in every major campaign in the Europe's western front: Normandy, Northern France, Rhineland, Ardennes – Alsace and Central Europe.

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[browningautorifle]

Nice flat slider sling foreground...

[RAM1ALASKA]

Great picture! A long ways from home for Christmas that's for sure!
The guy on the left has a Thompson shouldered, but what is the weapon he and the M1 are leaning against ??
Looks like some kind of artillery rounds lower right, maybe ?

[browningautorifle]

Because of the lack of concern for the exposed ammo lying in the mud, I'm thinking it's a captured enemy 37mm? That's what the ammo makes me think of.