24 Feb 2022 Garand Picture of the Day

[Mark in Rochester]

Marines Bayonet Practice
Date taken: May 1942
Photographer: John Florea

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[Daan Kemp]

Lots of left handers there. Might be left handed equipment and rifles too.

[browningautorifle]

Might be left handed equipment and rifles too.

Well, top pic has the instructor with a left handed M1916 holster, which didn't come out until IMA brought them out a few years back.

Also the bandage on his finger, I had that exact same thing happen with an M7 bayonet...had my hand wrong and the student got me...

[ssgross]

I laughed at the m1 paper cut.

To my knowledge, no left-handed garlands were every made. Photo's showing lefty equipment are reflections, either by the mechanism of the camera or for print/formatting purposes. Here is how it really happened...

...unless of course he was holding his garand left handed all along. can't tell in the photo. I can't make out the screw head on the bayonet grip - so I think it's a reflected picture.

[browningautorifle]

I think it's a reflected picture.

Yes of course it is...a common fault with photogs.

[Flying10uk]

I think it's a reflected picture.

A well known UK militaria dealer did it with a photo of a Sten Gun a few years ago. Very confusing because the mag was sticking out the wrong side.

[browningautorifle]

a photo of a Sten Gun mag was sticking out the wrong side.

Yes, very interesting, experimental model left hand Sten...

[Daan Kemp]

The three in the other picture are all left handed too...

See that often on youtube, the left and right transposed.

[Flying10uk]

The three in the other picture are all left handed too...

Ok then.................

[BEAR]

M1917 scabbard. They were used while new M3 hard scabbards were being manufactured.

BEAR