31 Aug 20 Garand Picture of the Day

[Bob Seijas]

Reporters and GIs love to attach some prejudicial name to a weapon, they called the B-24 Lib the "Flying Coffin." I guess it's human nature.

[rcnanman]

Deep wading mod

[browningautorifle]

Deep wading mod

Exactly, some had the official square kits as issued and some were these designed to be welded by the Seabees and just use a 55 gal drum. Here are a couple of model kits done up to show one with the square and barrel and the other shows two barrels installation so you guys get the idea...

[CINDERS]

Funny you should say about the invulnerability of the Tiger Mark.
I remember Pat Dias at an interview commanding his M4 Sherman how he took on Wittmanns Tiger head on at about 75 yards range firing 2 A.P rounds out of the 75mm and watched them bounce off the frontal armour of Wittmanns Tiger.
Not sure if Balthasar Woll was his gunner in that encounter but Pat's words still come back ~ "I fired twice and the shots just bounced off, he fired once and the shot did not bounce off." "It blew me out of the commanders hatch and killed two of my crew."
I am not saying the Tiger did not have flaws but take punishment it could and dish it out as well at long range still the answer for us was in air power find the Tiger call up the "Tiffies" with rockets and deal with them that way.

I've yet to read all my Tiger books but Otto Carius Tigers In The Mud and the German Tiger Tank Battalion 503 by Von Rosen are not bad reads.

Sledgehammers is very good as it goes into great detail about the flaws and weaknesses of the Tiger also how they were deployed like in Russia using them to clear anti personnel mine fields with resultant damage to their running gear and other stupid antics like that worth getting a copy.

Death Traps is another good read as well on the M4.

[Mark in Rochester]

Evidently the 'Ronson' myth appeared post WWII?

yes it appears to be post war as no war time ads used the slogan

Some time in the 50's the first time every time slogan shows up

more discussion here: The Tank and AFV Blog: The M4 Sherman Ronson: "Lights First Every Time"

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1950's

[CINDERS]

That one from 1944 with the 2nd tank coming out of the LCT looks like a Sherman Mark !

[fjruple]

Exactly, some had the official square kits as issued and some were these designed to be welded by the Seabees and just use a 55 gal drum. Here are a couple of model kits done up to show one with the square and barrel and the other shows two barrels installation so you guys get the idea...

Learned something new today!! Thanks

[Sarge1998]

I've read and watched what I thought was a lot of history, yet it's Threads such as Garand Picture of the Day that I still learn today things such as this. My thanks to Mark in Rochester who continues to locate what I believe are previously unpublished (or very select) photos from WWII or later that contain the topic M1 Caliber .30 Garand Rifle. And another thank you to all the members who respond to a photo with questions such as what are those 50 gallon drums doing on the engine lid of that Sherman?

[Surpmil]

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