More of his war stories. When I was talking to ARladies grandpa, he was telling me that the initial shelling of infantry usually brought about some pretty stiff counter-battery fire that led to all out arty wars. The US arty would often move, set up, and continue again to make the Germans have to recalc where they were firing. We had a big advantage in speed and movement with lots of mech. equipment to relocate the guns. I guess a lot of the German arty was still horse drawn, and could not move as quickly.
ARlady asked (demanded, then ordered is more apporpriate) me to acquire a 1903A3 when she found this bayonet. From what he said, this is what he carried most of the time. Apparantly all the Garands were going to infantry units, and it took the carbines a while to trickle down.
Pretty cool in all. I'm sure they is lots more stuff in his basement to setup a nice little memorial.
I would like to do the same for my grandpa. He flew, PBYs, PB4Y1 (the navy B-24) and PB4Y2s, mostly on ASW mission. He had his issue 1911, but my Grandma made him sell when they had grandkids. Apparantly it was mint. The witch!
I'll stop rambling now, I need to get back to work.