22 Mar 2025 Garand Picture of the Day - No rear sight

[Mark in Rochester]

81st Infantry Division soldiers taking hill during training exercises. '3-14-44. Wallis. First Platoon, Co D, 1st Bn, 323rd Inf, 81st Div, covers the advance of the Inf with rifle and machine gun fire on Area 1-A during a field problem at Camp San Luis Obispo, Calif. Advancing Inf is approx 100 yds below the 1st Platoon and are not pictured. 168-L-44-858.' Army Signal Corps photograph Photographer: Wallis. 14 March 1944

[browningautorifle]

I took a few parts rifles to the field when I was training troops. You'd end up canabalizing your rifle so theirs worked...ended up having a written order to cease that sort of thing though. Just return the damaged rifle and quit stripping yours.