11-180 Garand Picture of the Day -Buna, Papua New Guinea

**Mark in Rochester** · 06-26-2011 08:42 AM

American soldiers awaiting orders in a slit trench near the front lines during the campaign to oust Japanese icon

forces from the area.
Location: Buna, Papua New Guinea
Date taken: 1943
Photographer: George Strock

American soldiers cross makeshift Japanese-built bridge connecting Buna Station to main island during the campaign to take back New Guinea from the enemy.during the campaign to oust Japanese forces from the area.
Location: Buna, Papua New Guinea
Date taken: 1943
Photographer: George Strock

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**Bob Womack** · 06-26-2011 08:58 AM

Just about no finish left on the gas cylinder.

**browningautorifle** · 06-26-2011 01:04 PM

Just about no finish left on the men either. Lower pic looks like a 1903 in front. Can anyone enlarge that?

**Harlan (Deceased)** · 06-26-2011 05:37 PM

Good catch, Jim!
I think you're correct. I can't see the front sight post either and wonder if it might be a 1903-A4

**LimeyCarbineLover** · 06-26-2011 06:01 PM

Also guys in that top pic is it my eyes or has the GI in the foreground got hobnails in the soles of his "Roughouts" ?? and i go with Harlan and Jimon this....looks like a M1903A4 to me too.

Regards

Lloyd

**Bill Hollinger** · 06-26-2011 06:12 PM

I think it may just be a build up of mud and crud stuck to the bottom. The pattern, what I can see of it, of the boot screams low quarter. Don't know

**LimeyCarbineLover** · 06-26-2011 06:29 PM

Hey Bill good evening to you...look again and you will see what appears to be a set of symettrical rounded studs....on his boot soles.

but then again it is late over here.....

Regards

Lloyd

**browningautorifle** · 06-26-2011 06:33 PM

So...if it's hobnails, 'cause it DOES look like them to me too, those would have been frowned on for shipboard duty. How would they have survived that long? And yes, I'll buy it's an '03-A4 in the top pic.

**Bill Hollinger** · 06-26-2011 06:37 PM

Lloyd, they could be I just don't know. Did low quarters have that sole? I always thought they were the flat sole.

**Harlan (Deceased)** · 06-26-2011 06:38 PM

I can't really tell about the hob nails, and they could have been added, but they look like they're probably the earlier low top, rough side out field shoes ('Boondockers') and you can see the strip from the leggings.

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