World War II

PERIOD PIECES?

ON PAGE 33 OF THE JUNE 2019 ISSUE is a photo of three soldiers before D-Day [above]. I don’t recognize the rifles. One in the foreground seems to be a bolt action—an ‘03 in 1944? The other one has a black stock; what is it?

BUD BRAKMANN

ORLANDO, FLA.

Regarding the photo in “These Final Days”—Peter Caddick-Adams’s feature in the June 2019 issue—captioned “American GIs play a

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