21 Aug 2024 Garand Picture of the Day

[Mark in Rochester]

Date taken: May 1951
Photographer: Michael Rougier

[Low & Slow]

The two guys on the left could probably find a better position.

[eb in oregon]

The two guys on the left could probably find a better position.

Which leads me to believe the picture was posed. Nobody with brains sits behind a bazooka when it is fired.

[Bill Hollinger]

Which leads me to believe the picture was posed. Nobody with brains sits behind a bazooka when it is fired.

Or looks directly down the back end of one!

[browningautorifle]

Which leads me to believe the picture was posed.

Of course it was.

[Bob Seijas]

Not as bad as the later 106mm Recoilless... ran a range for it once, the standard show for visitors was to pile empty ammo boxes 20 yards behind it, fire the gun --- a cloud of splinters!

[browningautorifle]

106mm Recoilless

My room mate was 106 Pl and I was Mortars so we were always on the adjoining ranges same time. They were always a great lightshow at last or first light...or when we fired illum.