13-084 Garand Picture of the Day - Normandy July 1944

[Mark in Rochester]

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[gtodan]

Looks like a two-star getting directions from a platoon or company commander. Anyone recognize the general?

[Mark in Rochester]

9th inf Div 2 Star

[gtodan]

Looks like General Eddy.....CO 9th ID

[Roadkingtrax]

Doesn't that 2nd picture look like the setting for Saving Private Ryan scene when they lost the medic?

[maxim]

One of the hedgerows permeated by a tank retro fitted with 'sharks teeth' perhaps. Really flatten that baby out. The distance between the rows re-enforces of why they were so hard to over come, what with the enemy dug in every 100 yards. No wire cutter on the jeep being July and in Normandy. Experience has not yet taught the need for one.

[Thaine]

Anybody else catch the souvenir Luger on the foremost GI's right hip? My Dad was in the invasion and took a round through the leg, shortening it by an inch sometime after they had gotten inland. He didn't talk much about it, but he did tell me he had a pair of P38s he had liberated that disappeared when he was in field hospital. War was short for him, but recovery was long. I can't help but wonder if this fellow and his Luger made it back home together.

Thaine

[browningautorifle]

I thought it was an eagle badge that he'd put on his 1916 holster. It looks like a .45 to me...

[frankderrico]

I'm with Jim.....Frank

[Thaine]

I would agree, but what makes me think Luger is the round shiny spot on the butt, i.e. the round knob on a Luger magazine. I just had it up to 600x and it is just not clear enough to tell, although the holster looks to be a 1911 variety.
Thaine