13-362 Garand Picture of the Day

[Snafu]

Not sure
M1 or 03?

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[browningautorifle]

Springfield rifle. Doesn't matter though, we like them too...

[RT Ellis]

Interesting image, obviously taken on a North Carolina, South Dakota or Iowa class battleship.

IMO the rifle in the hands of what appears to be a Marine is an M1 - buttstock and pistol grip looks more like M1 than M1903, although the muzzle end does looks more like an '03. The dark object he is wearing is a life jacket that is open at the front?

This appears to possibly be a colorized half tone print, or just a well traveled color print. The sailors in the background with red caps an interesting detail. Anyone enlighten me what the red caps signify?

[browningautorifle]

Yup...here we go... If you look in front of the receiver you see what appears to be the whole rear sight base. The same area on an M1 is all wood. The stock group in front of the magazine isn't as pregnant as the M1...not as deep.

[Snafu]

Caption-"P-47 Thunderbolt pilots inspect a Panther they destroyed
Ok added M1 for sure this time

[Mark in Rochester]

Good one nice detail

[browningautorifle]

Little bit of everything in that one.

[CINDERS]

See possibly 3 pilots as they are not wearing gaiters without helmets different shoes not boots and wearing leather jackets one facing has map/flight plan bottom Rt leg, interesting story how the P-47 pilots came up with killing the Panther and Tiger tanks with only 50 cals came from behind and fired at the ground at the back of the tank the rounds hit and bounced up through the thin armour of the floor and then bounced around inside doing what they do well.

There is footage of this on the doco on a P-47 Thunderbolt squadron in WW II where a crew of reporters followed the whole shebang to give the populace an insight it was in colour and towards the end of the war very good footage of ground attacks.

[Shake Rag]

Do you have a link to that film? It sure sounds like it's interesting.

[Paul S.]

There are at least 7 pilots in the picture - all the guys in leather flight jackets including 3 wearing baseball style caps (sitting in foreground, leaning on the tank, standing), 2 with helmets (standing facing camera, back to camera in middle pic) and 2 bare headed (backs to camera with hands in pockets).