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M3 Grease gun issued prior Dday ?


nicolas75
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Hello to all

 

I do have seen pics of the M3 SMG Grease gun for Dday

 

But does anyone has pics of it beeing issued prior to Dday in ETO or MTO ?

 

Thanks

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Here is what I have found (below) and since mid 1944 - pictures before DDay might not have occurred?

 

The M3 was intended as a replacement for the Thompson, and began to enter front line service in mid 1944. Due to delays caused by production issues and approved specification changes, the M3 saw limited combat use in World War II. The M3A1 variant was used in the Korean War and later conflicts.

 

 

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Among the first combat operations in which the M3 saw use was in the hands of some paratroopers of the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions during the Normandy drop as part of the D-Day invasion

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Salvage Sailor

Photo from a scrapbook - Jungle training in Hawaii (probably on Maui)

 

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Dr_Sutton

27 May 1944 Biak, Dutch New Guinea. These soldiers are from the 41st Infantry Division which was already a veteran unit that had several operations in the Spring of 1944 and was in constant combat from April at Hollandia to still mopping up Biak in August. A sister regiment of the men in the photo (163rd Infantry) assaulted Wakde Island to the east 10 days previous.

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For its size Biak is a particularly poorly documented battle due to MacArthur being personally embarrassed by overestimating the time table he gave to the Navy to match their Marianas Campaign that Biak's capture was supposed to support from the south. With many parallels to Peleliu only 3 months later the 41st Division task force had to be reinforced and staff officers had to get creative how to dispose of the dug in defenders, a reinforced Regiment of the Japanese 36th Division.

 

M3 SMGs were in common use by the summer of 1944, including the Pacific Theatre. This is a forward detachment of the Headquarters Company of the 33rd Infantry Division at Finschhafen I think in July 1944. 1944NewGuineaFinchhaven33rdIDHQDetpersonnelformationM3.vanWestrop.jpg.500fcb579678e49ab183023aa45ec2bf.jpg

The 77th Division also had them for Guam in August.

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