15-193 Garand Picture of the Day

[browningautorifle]

I was kind of being sarcastic. Besides, he's got the BAR right there...

[Paul S.]

Jim, no worries Mate. I'm married to the Empress of Sarcasm and most of it still escapes me.

[13Echo]

I think most of the Marine's equipment shortages during WWII could be blamed on Admiral King and not the Army. He begrudged the grunts every dime spent.

[SA M1Dom]

Was all equipment puchased from the army orwas that only small arms?

[Bill Hollinger]

Was all equipment puchased from the army orwas that only small arms?

Not so much as the Marines had all their own design of equipment. From leggings to suspenders, uniforms to canteen pouches, the Marines had different stuff. Weapons were their own also as far as I know. They started out on Guadalcanal with the 1903 because the commandant of the Marine Corps was convinced it was a better rifle. In the book Guadalcanal Diaries there are a number of accounts where Marines took the M1 rifles from fallen Army troops of the 164th ID.