German Soldiers Clean Up

[LAH]

arm full of M1 Garand's and Thompson's...



only can wonder where they are today.

[Dean-DGR]

I don't why I feel this way, but I hope the two Germans both got M1 thumbs from the Garands! Dean-DGR

[Allen]

All I can think of is: One dead American soldier for every gun they are holding.

[kcw]

I'm thinking that picture was probably only a couple of days old on this date 70 years ago.

[Roadkingtrax]

Id drop my K98 too...

[UUURah]

If they only knew that they have in their hands some items that would be worth probably $100,000 in 70 years.

[kcw]

Their U.S. counterpart is pictured on page 24 of the Jan., 2015 "American Rifleman" under the caption "Bring Enough Guns?". The photo, dated 10DEC44, shows a GI laden down with German machine guns and submachine guns. The grin on his face seems to say, "Hey mom, look what I found!".

[Hefights]

They were on borrowed time.

[2111]

All I can think of is: One dead American soldier for every gun they are holding.

Lets hope that, at worst, the American soldiers ended up in a POW camp and came home at wars end to live a long and happy life. God bless Americas "Greatest Generation".

[remus]

Those guys probably wish they had a comparable battle rifle issued to them. The 98 was a great bolt gun, but the M1 was a lot better.

[LAH]

I thought it was an interesting photo. I have seen many photos of US Soldiers with enemy small arms, but this was the first I've
seen with M1 Garand's in the hands of enemy soldiers.

[meterman]

I once saw a pic of a German using an M1 carbine. He was standing alongside a tank or something.

[mike24d20]

It has always been common pratice for the victor in battle to scronge the field of any serviceable weapons an ammo.

[StockDoc]

the Germans made use of everything they could find. But capture an American with a luger, so the story goes, and he is shot on the spot.

Germans with Carbines

http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u195/TITS-airsoft/germanswithm1carbine.jpg

http://www.rjmilitaria.com/images/m1carbine/m1ref8.jpg

[hkp7fan]

I once got to talking with a German bus driver about their gun laws and how they have so many restrictions. He shrugged and said "Jeder hat etwas zur Seite gelegt..." (Everyone has something set aside...). I always figured they were German weapons, but they could just as easily have been foreign.