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13-009 Garand Picture of the Day - 1955 U.S.M.C. EQUIPMENT
Marine equipment for atomic combat displayed on ground, including guns, ammo, clothing, mess kit, also two fully equipped Marines on see-saw showing difference in weight of old and new outfits.
Location: US
Date taken:February 1955
Photographer:Hank Walker
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He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose
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01-09-2013 12:28 PM
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My rifle is a 1955 vintage CMP....I wonder if it's one of these? How I'd love to know its stories.....
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No grenades for light man?
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There are two in the foreground on the right and two on the left on the blanket.
Bill Hollinger
"We're surrounded, that simplifies our problem!"
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Missed those
Real men measure once and cut.
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the guy on the right has a lot less stuff.
Perhaps they did not think he would live as long in the atomic age.
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose
There are no great men, only great challenges that ordinary men are forced by circumstances to meet.
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