Mean Looking Guy

[Subdeacon Joe]

Faces of War: US Marines moving supplies during the Battle for Cape Gloucester, New Britain Island.

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Original description and photo sourced from the US Department of Defense

 

 

[Tex Jones, SASS 2263]

That's a M 1917 Browning Machine gun.  No tripod or ammo, but the complete package weighed over 100 lbs

[Trailrider #896]

Thousand yard stare?

[Subdeacon Joe]

24 minutes ago, Trailrider #896 said:

Thousand yard stare?

 

I think more a "Why do I have to hump this thing up that damned hill?"

[Alpo]

46 minutes ago, Subdeacon Joe said:

 

I think more a "Why do I have to hump this thing up that damned hill?"

I think he looks like Tony Randall.

[Irish Pat]

I think he is ticked off after seeing the guy in the keep with no helmet and stretched back

[Joke 'um]

Dysentery.  Jungle rot in every fold of skin.  Immersion foot, a.k.a. trench foot.  A leech for each and every body orifice.  Hasn't had a dry square inch of skin in six weeks.  Rain.  Rain.  Rain.  Mud.  Mud.  Rain.  105F.  "Don't even open your mouth, Sir."

[Subdeacon Joe]

Here it is not cropped as much:

 

https://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USMC/USMC-C-Gloucester/index.html

 

https://www.history.navy.mil/browse-by-topic/wars-conflicts-and-operations/world-war-ii/1943/beyond-guadalcanal/cape-gloucester.html

 

https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history-magazine/2010/april/waging-war-rain-forest

 

 

 

 

 

[Utah Bob #35998]

6 hours ago, Tex Jones, SASS 2263 said:

That's a M 1917 Browning Machine gun.  No tripod or ammo, but the complete package weighed over 100 lbs

79 lbs without water in it, or tripod