I don't think old John can see much with a standard sight cover on a M1903A3...... I think these men are equipment / boat operators that lost their equipment, rounded up to go back for more, but needed for defense and issued M1903A3 rifles for the emergency. Remember the Japanese attack on the Army Air Force tents late in the battle, saved, by the way, by the USMC 5th Pioneer Battalion (Black).

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