17-4-23 Garand Picture of the Day

[Woodsy]

My Dad (NZ Engineers), having survived two years in the Pacific campaign, was sent to Egypt and spent the last 6 months of the war clearing minefields, both British and German. They blew most of them but a fair number still had to be done the hard way. Bugger that for a comic song! Luckily he came home in one piece and lived until he was 85.