16-156 Garand Picture of the Day

[Mark in Rochester]

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[browningautorifle]

That one looks like it took an HE round squarely inside...the back is bulged out.

[CINDERS]

Looks like Tarawa but could be any atol

[henry r]

the more pictures i see, the more i read, the more video's i watch, the less i can even begin to comprehend what it must have been like to experience this.

[Bob Seijas]

Read "With the Old Breed" and you will know for sure... awful.

[25-5]

I gave my son, my copy of Eugene Sledge's book so he could understand better why I think about my country like I do. An emotional read.

[Bob Womack]

That one looks like it took an HE round squarely inside...the back is bulged out.

Looks like a ...short... round.

Bob

[henry r]

i have read with the old breed several times. an amazing book i'd recommend to anyone. i re-read it whenever i'm feeling flat as it reminds me that regardless of what is going on in my life i've got nothing to complain about.

i can't explain why, but the older i get and the more life experience i acquire, the less i can get my head around living like these men did.

as an aside, the copy of with the old breed i read was given to a good friend by henry (hank) boyes for going out of his way to look after him in his nursing home and arranging for him to go to lodge for the first time in years. there is a picture of henry "hank"boyes poking a pencil through a bullet hole in his forage cap in the book. one of the head nurses kept putting an asian woman on his room at night so he would wake up to an asain face above him... my friend, matt liked him and used to talk to him whenever he had some time so had an idea why this was stressing henry so much. after repeatedly trying nicely, matt ended up tearing strips off the woman (basically his boss) to get it to stop.

[Bob Womack]

I had a friend who was a Marine communications specialist who went ashore on Betio on the third day of the fighting. After the fighting ended, the 2nd Marine troops packed up and shipped back to Hawaii to lick their wounds. The 6th Marines cleared as much of the carnage and munitions as they could and moved on for the next campaign in the Marshalls. The airfields on Betio were used for that campaign but everyone slowly island-hopped west. Eventually my friend and a small airfield operations detachment were all who were left, essentially marooned on the bypassed atoll for the rest of the war, rarely visited by ship or plane. He said they lived off stockpiled goods. They went down to the beach every morning for a swim after breakfast and spent the rest of their time trying to keep from being killed by unexploded ordnance.

Bob