Soldier talking Cover and Firing his M1 Garand

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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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