Helmets in Use #2, WW2 Medic M1 Steel Helmet

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70th Infantry Division medics help a wounded man back from the front near WingensurMode

 

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Picture taken during the Battle for Rome - June 1944

LIFE Magazine Archives - George Silk Photographer

 

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An American Medic with the rank  S/Sergeant takes cover from artillery among the rubble and with men from the 274th Infantry Regiment 70th Infantry Division

 

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1 hour ago, doyler said:

An American Medic with the rank  S/Sergeant takes cover from artillery among the rubble and with men from the 274th Infantry Regiment 70th Infantry Division

 

Wouldn’t a medic hold a technician rank?  T3, T4 or T5. 

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5 hours ago, gap said:

Wouldn’t a medic hold a technician rank?  T3, T4 or T5. 

True, this would normally be the case but, there were those who were medics who were indeed Sergeants.

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Members of the US Army 6th Engineer Special Brigade on USS LST-317 look at a German Phrase Book while on the way to Normandy for the DDay Landings - June 5, 1944

LST-317 landed at “Easy Green” Omaha Beach on June 6, 1944

 

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GI with an M1A1 Bazooka on the outskirts of Rome - June 4, 1944

LIFE Magazine Archives - Carl Mydans Photographer

 

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American soldiers wade and drive a Jeep across the Moselle River in September 1944,

 

 

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US troops in the back of a M3A1 Scout Car with an M2 .50 MG and two M1919 .30 MGs during training at Fort Huachuca, Arizona - 1943

Note the absence of ammunition belts

During WW2, the 92nd and 93rd Infantry Divisions trained at Fort Huachuca. The Fort is still an active US Military Base despite a brief closure from 1947 to 1951.

LIFE Magazine Archives - Charles Steinheimer Photographer WWP-PD

 

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80th Inf Div February 1945.

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69th Div Medics, see the division patch was on the medic helmets too.

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Post War 1946 or 47, a Medic of the 82nd just hitting the ground gathers his gear during training.

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Looks like he's attending to someone.

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19 hours ago, sundance said:

Looks like he's attending to someone.

By George you're right, thanks, good eye, thought it was Main Chute Bag OD, the Reserve Chute, Field Pack etc etc.