I went to the D-Day / National WWII museum in New Orleans yesterday and gathered data on the lone 1903 represented.

It is a Remington in a 2 bolt S stock sn 3048272. All I could see of the barrel stamp was a 2, so I presume it's a 1942. It was in similar condition to the Greek return CMPicon rifles.

The museum itself is a must see. It was my first time to see a Germanicon 88, about which Ambrose wrote that the 88mm converted more men to Christ than Peter and Paul combined! Most of the museum tells the story of WWII and has many personal narratives. Also interesting were invasion maps carried ashore by our troops and a panoramic photo left on board a landing craft at Normandy.

I think my favorite humorous story was a gunner on a cruiser, I think it was the USS Augusta. In the heat battle on D-Day, he saw the ship's pennant break free and fall, so he left his post and caught it before it went overboard. On his way back to his post he was confronted by none other than Omar Bradley, who just said, "I think you should get back to your post." The man was so scared he would be court martialed for leaving his post under fire he hid the pennant. After the battle the Captain ordered a search. Now he was so scared he wore it around his waist under his clothes till he could smuggle it home.
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