28 May 2021 Garand Picture of the Day

[Mark in Rochester]

Local Gela resident welcoming American soldiers w. a pitcher of wine folllowing a successful attack by Allied forces to take the area from Axis hands.
Location: Gela, Sicily, Italy
Date taken: July 1943
Photographer: Bob Landry

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[Bill Hollinger]

1943 and carrying an 03.

[RCS]

The M1903 and M1903A1 were used for rifle grenades until the M7 launcher/cartridges became available.

You could set the range by using the leaf sight and slide on the 1903.

With the M1 rifle, only the Squad Leader or Assistant Squad Leader were trained and issued the M7 as I recall

[browningautorifle]

Wonder what proof that booze the Pisano has is...50, 80...100? Home hooch...dad told me about some of the wine they got into there.

[Bob Seijas]

Probably not quite as good as the troopers who pillaged Goring's cellar got

[browningautorifle]

Goring's cellar

I understand that sight was breathtaking. Like a current liquor warehouse for stock...

[rayg]

Just wondering if they are really US soldiers. Maybe Greek/Turks? The O3 is a bit unusual and so is the older gas mask..

[Bill Hollinger]

I was thinking Greeks also.

[Mark in Rochester]

Probably not quite as good as the troopers who pillaged Goring's cellar got

Cricova's marketing director Alexandru Alexeev gives me a guided tour. He stops his golf buggy beside an alcove filled with dusty bottles. "This is Herman Goering's private collection, taken by the Red Army from Berlin in 1945," he says.


I grab a bottle of the Mosel white, rub off the dust and hold it to the light wondering if this had been touched by Hitler's henchman. It's murky, bits of cork appear to be floating in the liquid.

"Don't remove the dirt, even the dust is valuable," Alexeev admonishes. "How valuable?" I ask. "Well, each bottle is worth £15,000(18,291.00 USD) and there are 129 of them," he says.