12-127 Garand Picture of the Day - China

**Mark in Rochester** · 05-05-2012 12:26 PM

9,000 ammo rounds piled around soldier.

Location:China

Date taken:May 1957

Photographer:John Dominis

photo credit :ryochiji's

The sign next to the M1 says “中国重庆造”
Chongqing was the WWII war-time capital of Nationalist China. With so much aid from the United States icon

going over to the Nationalists through the Burma road and transport planes flying “over the hump” from India, it is very likely that the tooling for M1 Garand production was transferred to supplement Nationalist armories.

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**oldcarjunkie** · 05-05-2012 03:54 PM

Cool pics !!

**browningautorifle** · 05-05-2012 11:11 PM

I'll take one of those...did you get a load of the markings?

**Paul S.** · 05-06-2012 12:19 AM

Somebody at LIFE need to go to remedial mathematics. 500 rds per box times 17 boxes equals 8500 rounds.

**Bill Hollinger** · 05-09-2012 09:49 PM

Note in the first photo the heal markings a backwards swastika??? Wow!

**Mark in Rochester** · 05-10-2012 12:36 PM

The "left-facing" variant is favoured in Bön and Gurung Dharma; it is called yungdrung in Bon and Gurung Yantra in Gurung Dharma. Both the right-facing and left-facing variants are commonly employed in Hinduism and Buddhism.

**Bill Hollinger** · 05-10-2012 01:51 PM

Thanks Mark. I just find it odd that a swastika, in any configuration, is on a US M1 icon

Garand even if it isn't really US.

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