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Soldier talking Cover and Firing his M1 Garand
Soldier in good cover taking Aim and Firing his M1 Garand. Looks like he needs a New pack a Lucky's. No Caption other than Soldier in Good Cover Firing his M1 Carbine and what was written below. I thought there would be a Movie Title, but there wasn't.
M1 GARRAND
It was the first standard-issue semi-automatic rifle.Called "the greatest battle implement ever devised" by General George S. Patton, the*Garand officially replaced the bolt-action M1903 Springfield as the standard service rifle of the United States Armed Forces in 1936.
During World War II, the M1 gave U.S. forces a distinct advantage in firefights against their Axis enemies, as their standard-issue rifles*were more effective than the Axis' slower-firing bolt-action rifles. The M1 is an air-cooled, gas-operated, clip-fed, semi-automatic, shoulder-fired weapon. This means that the air cools the barrel; that the*power to cock the rifle and chamber the succeeding round comes from the expanding gas of the round fired previously;
It is loaded by inserting an en-bloc (i.e., it goes into the rifle's action and functions as part of the rifle) metal clip (containing eight rounds)*into the receiver; and that the rifle fires one round each time the trigger is pulled. After the eight rounds have been shot, the empty clip* automatically ejects with an audible "ping" noise.
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Don't forget "Lucky strike goes to war!"
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My Father told me Stories about people that didn't smoke would trade there Cigs. for extra MRE ' S or just sell them or Keep them and then when someone got a crappie detail or just needed help they would offer them to the Smokers. I never knew that the Marine Corp would issue them to the GI ' s I couldn't believe it, but the times were different than now.
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I remember when we went up to Fairbanks to train with the Airborne there in '75...and they issued rations with the smokes in them. Some we got in Coronado a few months earlier must have been Marine issue, there were cans marked 1945, I forget what they were...olive drab and served on the beach.
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MRE 's haha... I was thinking about my time...I forgot in my Fathers times they were called C-Rations. Thanks Jim for reminding me. When I saw your post and you said Rations. Yes he told me they were issued Cig's with there Rations.
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You could trade almost anything for a can of peaches
I remember the C-rats, a three-pack of unfiltered cigarettes (usually Chesterfields), two Chiclets, and certainly NO hot sauce. I actually LIKED the scrambled eggs and ham, but I have always been a bit strange. My favorite mess hall meal was creamed chipped beef on toast (SOS), the most expensive meal on the Army menu. Twenty years later we had a Partner's Dinner in a private dining room at "21" in NYC and they had it on the menu... I ordered it and was knocked out. My partner remarked, "All he needs now is a helmet liner to sit on." LOL
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Originally Posted by
imntxs564
C-Rations.
We were issued C's and K's... The MREs came way later. I remember those too.
creamed chipped beef on toast
Another that I'd heard of but never even saw when we happened to be in a US fort or camp...I was lead to believe it was an acquired taste. And I thought the smokes were in a four pack...could be wrong. It was very long ago too.
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pound cake.
And that was what it weighed when it was in your gizzard...but I must admit, I did eat that sort of thing. Mostly because there was nothing else.
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