10-7-18 Garand Picture of the Day

[Mark in Rochester]

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[Paul S.]

Possible caption: "Yeah, you're right. We're f*****g lost."

[CINDERS]

O'er! the positioning of that M-1 is rather delicate on the monster G.I!

Guy Rt rear ~ "Can any one read me, we're in a forest and cannot find our way out."

The forest being that small brush in front of them!!

[Charlie303]

Interesting camo on the helmets...

[browningautorifle]

I thought at one point we had uncovered that the men here were Marine Raiders in the early days...thus the painted cam on helmets.

[Charlie303]

I wondered if they might have belonged to the 82nd Airborne Div? They had painted camo on their helmets in Sicily and Italy in 1943. But the rest of the gear doesn't look quite right.

[RichardX]

They could be airborne a couple of them have trousers that look the part, but I don't think they are Marines--none of the gear looks stolen LOL,

[Charlie303]

M3 knife, shoulder holster (.45?). Not your average infantry weapons. Maybe they are Airborne?

[mmppres]

but i dont like were that m1carbine is pointing

[Charlie303]

I guess the clue to who and where may be in the name of the image...

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