Garand Picture of the Day #212

[Snafu]

This Airborne Yank has solved his personal transportation problem over the areas flooded by retreating Germans near the French coast. 11 June 1944. (6/11/1944)

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[Dan Shapiro]

NEVER walk when you can ride!

[Mark in Rochester]

This is from Currahee A Screaming Eagle at Normandy

Presidio press

Donald Burgett A Co. 506th

" One trooper wore a brace of luger pistols, cowboy fashion, and rode a white horse commandeered from the late Russian cavalry. He was with a with a group of us that was foraging for wine , when we ran into a German machine gun in a house of the right side of theroad, just thisside of the first bridge. The gun opened up on us with long bursts and we hit the ditches on either side of the road, but the trooper on horseback spurred his mount , and yelling , "Hi Ho Silver!" charged the machine gun with both pistols blazing.

He rode within a few yards of the machine gunwhile it ripped long bursts around him and his mount,then, wheeling around, he dashed back to us and the safety of a hedgerow."

The second charge did no end so well.

Burgett's series is excellent - 4 book series on A Co. 506th

[John Kuhns]

Looks like a lock bar on the rear sight.