German Soldiers Clean Up

[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/u...hm1carbine.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.

[Major Tom]

My French friend says the same. Rural area farmers, etc. seem to always have something in their barns/cellrs.