Picture of the day

[ipscgraz]

I hope this will fit here

US Springfield Armory M1 Garand serial no. 1,000,000 presented to inventor John C. Garand, November 1942.

from Rock Island Auctions

 

[x westie]

John Garand came from a very humble background,he had very little formal education, he started sweeping floors in a textile mill when he was 12 or 13 ,in Massachusetts, he learned English while at work, as his background was French Canadian, I believe he took correspondence courses to learn about running a lathe , later working in precision tool factories, he was a a self taught genius when it came to designing and producing the M1 rifle

 

[CV32]

Great looking wood on that Garand.

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

Looking to Werf some Nebels:

 

[CV32]

General Andrey Vlasov and troops of the Russian Liberation Army.

 

[Brno8x57]

Looking to Werf some Nebels:

My father-in law said that the most terrifying sounds he heard on the battlefields of Normandy were the "moaning minnies" and Hitlers buzz saw.

 

[Grizzly Adams]

John Garand came from a very humble background,he had very little formal education, he started sweeping floors in a textile mill when he was 12 or 13 ,in Massachusetts, he learned English while at work, as his background was French Canadian, I believe he took correspondence courses to learn about running a lathe , later working in precision tool factories, he was a a self taught genius when it came to designing and producing the M1 rifle

He was a tool maker, so he could integrate design with production techniques, good combination.

Grizz

 

[Rob]

And he liked to skate in his house:

http://ww3.rediscov.com/spring/VFPC...gar/details.IDC,SPECIFIC=4039,DATABASE=BIBLIO,

 

[Sharps '74]

That Garand belongs in Canada.

 

[Edenchef]

 

[220]

Now that should have been in every Canadian newspaper!

 

[AP]

that would be an AT-4 Spigot on the BMP - effective too

 

[AP]

And again

 

[AP]

Doubletap

 

[Grizzly Adams]

I hope this will fit here

US Springfield Armory M1 Garand serial no. 1,000,000 presented to inventor John C. Garand, November 1942.

from Rock Island Auctions

The bottom pic is an M 14.


Grizz

 

[diopter]

Blackbird with a cold and nasal drip.

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

Sergei screwed up. Got drunk, called Comrade Commissar a "Pizdec", fell asleep under a truck and woke up to find the column had moved off without him.

Lucky for Sergei, Comrade Captain needed him alive for a job. Unlucky, for Sergei, necessary job was driving the refueling tank:

The TR-26C was designed to allow a tank column to carry refueling capability with it. That's 2000 liters of go-juice, conveniently located just above the driver.

No word on effectiveness or longevity in service. But if a Hitlerite could get within rifle range of it, it could be a bad time for Sergei.

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

An ME-323, or the sad remnants thereof:

In happier times. What's that she's eating?

Much was made of the 323's voracious appetite for materiel. What else did she eat?

Medical supplies:

Arty:

Better aero engines than she herself had:

Anti-tank guns:

...and their tractors:

Bicycles?

Big-ass trucks:

The injured:

Italian sheep:

Someone else's horses:

Her own feet:

...and a bunch of guys who are very relieved to have arrived alive:

 

[grelmar]

A little bondo, some touch up paint, and a new tire, and he'll be good to go...

Circa Benghazi, 2014...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2839442/Motorist-finds-live-mortar-wedged-bodywork-vehicle-fierce-shelling-Libya.html

 

[diopter]

I'd take potholes anyday, even Montreal potholes.