5 June 2023 Garand Picture of the Day

[Mark in Rochester]

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[Jakeroub]

I’m new here and gotta ask… why is this the “5 June 2023 Garand Picture of the Day” thread, when today is 2 June 2023?

[HOOKED ON HISTORY]

why is this the “5 June 2023 Garand Picture of the Day” thread, when today is 2 June 2023?

My boss would say "because if you are not early you are late."

[pickax]

Jake, Mark sometimes gets ahead when he posts these great pics. scroll back to earlier ones for more with good comments.
Welcome to a good forum!

[HOOKED ON HISTORY]

The first thing to look at @ sign on. Real treasures and greatly appreciated. Early, late, I will take them any way they come.

[browningautorifle]

Note the grenade, when REAL grenades were yellow...

[Mk VII]

Yes, they were yellow; so were bombs etc. The camouflage implications of this for large ordnance dumps caused the change to O.D. with yellow markings. Naturally large stocks of the old ones had to be used up first.

[browningautorifle]

large stocks of the old ones had to be used up first.

We see that with the first pics of the Pacific campaign and troops using yellow frag.

[fjruple]

Close only counts in horse shoes and hand grenades.

[BEAR]

And thermo-nuclear warfare!