M1903 with M1905 bayonets, Jan. 1943 pic found

[Garandy]

Can anyone see grasping grooves, or are the RA's?

[Garandy]

[Garandy]

Note M1911A1, M1923 belts, I tried fixing the pics, but they went back on their sides

[Mike D]

Rifle on the left might have grooves, hard to tell. What's in the chests?

Mike

[CPC]

They appear to be officers, etc. With guards and pistols, it appears to be pay day and those are stacks of cash. I suspect they are disbursing officers doing their duty. I did it as a 2nd and 1st LT and it looked the same as in the picture. That was before check to bank, and pay day musters were really pay day musters...

[Fred]

Yea, I remember going to Finance and signing for a paper sack with over $150,000.00 in it after it'd been counted out in front of me (a little too quickly I always felt). I'd walk back to our company area with it and sit behind a table within an empty quanset hut with everyone in the battalion lined up outside. I'd have a .45 1911 in a shoulder holster and there'd be one of my guy's (usually Huggy Bear, my tank driver) from my platoon standing next to me with a loaded M-16. I'd always paid him first of course.