8 Feb 2023 Garand Picture of the Day

[Mark in Rochester]

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[Bill Hollinger]

Just a liner, no steel shell. Hum....

[browningautorifle]

Just a liner

Saw that this morning, won't stop much frag. Looks like someone's about to get shot though.

[CINDERS]

Is that a 30/06 AP round in front of him black tip bullet pointed towards him, hard to tell in B/W could be trace or Icnd is there a colorised version Mark.

[browningautorifle]

Is that a 30/06 AP round

There isn't a caption for this one I could find but the pic is from Korea so since they used almost exclusively AP in the M1 rifle it follows...it's an AP.

[Flying10uk]

On a recent documentary (Desert War?) it said that steel helmets were sometimes/often not worn on night time patrols because the wind blowing round the helmet could create sufficient sound to be heard by an enemy. I haven't heard this before and, obviously, it would depend on how close you found yourself to any enemy, but could it? Could the wind blowing round a steel helmet be heard by an enemy, especially in the desert at night, if you were close enough.

[browningautorifle]

t said that steel helmets were sometimes/often not worn on night time patrols because the wind blowing round the helmet could create sufficient sound to be heard by an enemy.

I wore them and I've never heard that either. Sounds like an "Expert" opinion. I've heard the odd wind sound because the strap bails were right beside my ears... I didn't like helmets on patrol and generally we didn't wear helmets on patrol because...you couldn't hear anything and they were clumsy for creeping around. Had nothing to do with this other rumor.

[Ovidio]

On a recent documentary (Desert War?) it said that steel helmets were sometimes/often not worn on night time patrols because the wind blowing round the helmet could create sufficient sound to be heard by an enemy. I haven't heard this before and, obviously, it would depend on how close you found yourself to any enemy, but could it? Could the wind blowing round a steel helmet be heard by an enemy, especially in the desert at night, if you were close enough.

This sounds a bit like the legend of the clanking of the clips giving out one's empty rifle condition.
I have shot my Garand just last week and it occurred to me... Never really believed it. Maybe, but just maybe, in a close combat situation, urban combat. But then, I could throw a clip on the ground as a deceit while my buddy is shooting a couple rounds. Surprise!

[Bob Seijas]

The bandoleer suggests combat.

[Flying10uk]

It was specifically the "brodie style helmet", i.e. with a rim that the veteran was referring to. I couldn't really see it when he said it but he was recounting something that had occurred more than 70 years previously.