10-188 garand Picture of the Day More Normandy

[Mark in Rochester]

American troops searching for German snipers in ruins of French village after Allied D-Day invasion of Normandy.
Location: Normandy, France
Date taken: June 1944
Photographer: Frank Scherschel

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[paul1440]

This is one of my favorite pictures of USGI gear. Look at all the color differences - OD3, OD7, same pants different hues. It's one of the things that when you look at a group of modern reenactors they all look exactly the same trying to look real and in reality there was a lot of variation.

[Bob Womack]

Yeah, I noticed that everyone looks like he's modeling the same fresh ODs for a Sear catalog while in period pics you'd rarely see any two guys with identical rigs.

Bob