16-203 Garand Picture of the Day

[Flying10uk]

Were U.S. War correspondents ever armed in WW2 as a gun rack is being fitted to a press Jeep? I have never heard of British War correspondents being armed although I believe that they were technically members of the armed forces in case of capture and so would be treated as P.O.W., not as a spy.

[Paul S.]

War Correspondents as such were and are civilians and hence non-combatants. Ernie Pyle and Edward Ward (7th Viscount of Bangor) of WWII fame are two examples. Today's version are the blue helmet, blue body armour mob you see on the nightly news.

The jeep most likely belongs to an army photographic unit. Army Combat Photographers were serving soldiers.

[CINDERS]

Attachment 74209Here ya go BAR pic of one with 4 x 20 round mags with the 30 round one installed in the rifle.

[browningautorifle]

4 x 20 round mags

Those are 15's...

[CINDERS]

I took the pic off a gun site advertising them as 20's could they be an aftermarket affair

Here Jim follow this link and then click view page here's a copy of the add they had for the sale,

5 unused M1 Carbine 20 round magazines
This is a group of 5 (you get all 5) M1 Carbine magazines that are unused. All five are still in the red cellophane wrapping. I believe all 5 are marked "UI". I will not ship to California, DC, Chicago or anywhere not allowed.

This is a group of 5 (you get all 5) M1 Carbine magazines that are unused. All five are still in the red cellophane wrapping. I believe all 5 are marked UI.

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[browningautorifle]

5 unused M1 Carbine 20 round magazines

I understand that...but they didn't make them. The seller is wrong, perhaps his forte is egg frying and he sells guns as a sideline... I just looked at them, they're just standard NOS mags. Not like cut down AR mags these days...or the 5 rd mags they did for carbine.

[fboyj]

Ernest Hemingway went around covering the war in Europe heavily armed and he loved sniping at the retreating Germans. He is very lucky he was never captured because by rights he could've been summarily executed.

[Bob Seijas]

Dig up the old movie "84 Charlie Mopic" it's excellent.

[fjruple]

It interesting all of the Jerry cans in the back of the Jeep. Probably out getting stuff done with trading material. It's not uncommon to see an anvil in an Ordnance unit. Probably used to make the bracket for welding the gun rack to the Jeep's fender.

--fjruple

[Bill Hollinger]

Aftermarket 30


Aftermarket 20