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23 Feb 2022 Garand Picture of the Day
Berlin 7Th Army
Date taken: 1961
Photographer: Hank Walker
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That is a tad late to be armed with a Garand in Germany... IMHO.
The Soviets would have been much more modernly equipped, as were the East Germans.
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Originally Posted by
Ovidio
That is a tad late to be armed with a Garand in
Germany... IMHO.
The Soviets would have been much more modernly equipped, as were the East Germans.
Ovidio- Not really, the Berlin Brigade was the first to get the M14 in that time frame as it was the show case of the West in Berlin. Other units followed over time. My father's unit in West Germany did not get the M14 until early 1963. As I remember it quite well.
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Hi Frank. Thanks for the interesting info.
I meant that being armed with Garands in 1961 was generally late and not at the Soviet's level, especially thinking about the units in Germany.
Already in Korea the UN forces faced lots of Simonovs and the AK was already existing and widely in use in the USSR in '61.
Good that they got the new M14s first. Sensible decision. I would have imagined that the units of the US forces in Europe would be the first to be upgunned.
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