12-003 Garand Picture of the Day

[Snafu]

A U.S. First Cavalry Division tank takes on the appearance of a Times Square subway train at the rush hour as GI's pile aboard, on March 14, 1951 for a ride across the Hongchon River near the former Red supply base of Hongchon. (AP Photo/Jim Pringle) #

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[browningautorifle]

As the Germans said "A yard driven is a yard gained"!

[Harlan (Deceased)]

Great photo, SNAFU!

It looks like by that time most people were wearing 'double-buckle' boots.

I like the mix of M1's and M2 carbines too. There were many who used carbines as front line weapons there.

We've discussed this on a helmet collector forum, and it's been noted that in the majority of period Korean War photos Army soldiers didn't have any type of helmet covers or nets at all. There were many GI's who wore British-made nets (with the tie-string) in WWII, and the U.S. made it's own net cover in the spring of 1944 in time for D-Day, but they didn't seem to issue many nets or covers for the new soldiers that were outfitted for Korea. In late 1952 a general who had just gotten there noted how many helmets didn't have covers and they reflected light even on snowy and cloudy days because so many were wet. He threw a fit and they rushed an order through and made a huge number of solid OD green covers using the same pattern as the camo USMC cover, but the ship that were transporting them sank. A few made it over later just before the end of the war, and some were used early in Vietnam by American advisers, but there are many plain OD green covers still around in mint condition that were never issued. (Just more useless trivia)