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13-142 Garand Picture of the Day - Salerno 9 Sept 1943
Last edited by Mark in Rochester; 05-22-2013 at 12:20 PM.
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Does it look like the first guy is carrying an 03?
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Posts on the deck were apparently mount points for davits:
LST-1 high and dry on the North shore of the Brittany Peninsula during operations against Brest, France
, Sept. 1944.
Bob
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I does look like an 03 or an A3 for the first guy.
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I thought we looked at this one time and figured these were engineer or some such thing...thus the 1903 (A3)? in the order of battle.
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I thought we looked at this one time and figured these were engineer or some such thing...thus the 1903 (A3)? in the order of battle.
#2 Soldier has M1 – off to the right is medic
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I think the posts are ventilation stacks that were present on the first design of these ,venting the exhaust gasses from the tank deck , being removed after # 542. # 491 was the first to replace the aircraft type elevator between the top deck and the tank deck with a hindged ramp set up to allow quicker unloading.
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