Garand Picture of the day

**Mark in Rochester** · 03-30-2009 11:16 AM

On the morning of 23 December 1944, elements of the U.S. 3rd Armored Division were retreating from the Germans in the Ardennes Forest near Fraiture, Belgium icon

. A sergeant in a tank destroyer spotted an American digging a foxhole.The GI, a Private First Class of Co. F, 325th Glider Infantry Regiment, looked up and asked, "Are you looking for a safe place?

"Yeah," answered the tanker.

"Well buddy," he drawled, "just pull your tank in behind me... I'm the 82nd Airborne and this is as far as the bastards are going!"

The 325th Glider Infantry Regiment (GIR) during World War II

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**goo** · 03-30-2009 02:47 PM

the things i like about gliders is that yopu don't have to worry about loosing an engine
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http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3033/...g?v=1238438556
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...plus.. they don't have any software to keep track of. (f14d convertible, no rio)
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http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3019/...3aa0c356_m.jpg

**Ozark Gary** · 03-30-2009 07:59 PM

My Dad was in the 17th, but he said all the troopers were pretty cocky. If they weren't that way before, they sure learned to be that way in jump school.

**twobravo** · 03-30-2009 08:28 PM

A pic from a WWII album I have. Photos are from the 107th Tac Rec Sqd.

**Bob Womack** · 03-30-2009 09:36 PM

Originally Posted by twobravo

A pic from a WWII album I have. Photos are from the 107th Tac Rec Sqd.

In an eerie development, a large group of gliders showed up again near Arnhem in aerial mapping photos shot by KLM Airlines, more than twenty years later. It was discovered that the gliders on the raid were torched in 1944, permanently branding their outlines into the heath.

Bob

**gunsmith** · 03-30-2009 10:11 PM

Look at the aerials and note the lack of and bomb craters......

how things would be different today with pin point bombing.

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