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    Soldier talking Cover and Firing his M1 Garand

    Soldier in good cover taking Aim and Firing his M1 Garand. Looks like he needs a New pack a Lucky's. No Caption other than Soldier in Good Cover Firing his M1 Carbine and what was written below. I thought there would be a Movie Title, but there wasn't.

    M1 GARRAND

    It was the first standard-issue semi-automatic rifle.Called "the greatest battle implement ever devised" by General George S. Patton, the*Garand officially replaced the bolt-action M1903 Springfield as the standard service rifle of the United Statesicon Armed Forces in 1936.
    During World War II, the M1 gave U.S. forces a distinct advantage in firefights against their Axis enemies, as their standard-issue rifles*were more effective than the Axis' slower-firing bolt-action rifles. The M1 is an air-cooled, gas-operated, clip-fed, semi-automatic, shoulder-fired weapon. This means that the air cools the barrel; that the*power to cock the rifle and chamber the succeeding round comes from the expanding gas of the round fired previously;
    It is loaded by inserting an en-bloc (i.e., it goes into the rifle's action and functions as part of the rifle) metal clip (containing eight rounds)*into the receiver; and that the rifle fires one round each time the trigger is pulled. After the eight rounds have been shot, the empty clip* automatically ejects with an audible "ping" noise.
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    My Father told me Stories about people that didn't smoke would trade there Cigs. for extra MRE ' S or just sell them or Keep them and then when someone got a crappie detail or just needed help they would offer them to the Smokers. I never knew that the Marine Corp would issue them to the GI ' s I couldn't believe it, but the times were different than now.

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    I remember when we went up to Fairbanks to train with the Airborne there in '75...and they issued rations with the smokes in them. Some we got in Coronado a few months earlier must have been Marine issue, there were cans marked 1945, I forget what they were...olive drab and served on the beach.
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    MRE 's haha... I was thinking about my time...I forgot in my Fathers times they were called C-Rations. Thanks Jim for reminding me. When I saw your post and you said Rations. Yes he told me they were issued Cig's with there Rations.

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    You could trade almost anything for a can of peaches
    I remember the C-rats, a three-pack of unfiltered cigarettes (usually Chesterfields), two Chiclets, and certainly NO hot sauce. I actually LIKED the scrambled eggs and ham, but I have always been a bit strange. My favorite mess hall meal was creamed chipped beef on toast (SOS), the most expensive meal on the Army menu. Twenty years later we had a Partner's Dinner in a private dining room at "21" in NYC and they had it on the menu... I ordered it and was knocked out. My partner remarked, "All he needs now is a helmet liner to sit on." LOL
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    Quote Originally Posted by imntxs564 View Post
    C-Rations.
    We were issued C's and K's... The MREs came way later. I remember those too.

    Quote Originally Posted by Bob Seijasicon View Post
    creamed chipped beef on toast
    Another that I'd heard of but never even saw when we happened to be in a US fort or camp...I was lead to believe it was an acquired taste. And I thought the smokes were in a four pack...could be wrong. It was very long ago too.
    Regards, Jim

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    Canned pound cake.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bob Womack View Post
    pound cake.
    And that was what it weighed when it was in your gizzard...but I must admit, I did eat that sort of thing. Mostly because there was nothing else.
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