I hope I don't step into a problem, in the hopes I credit this all correctly.
I was emailed a link to a website showing photos of towns in June 1944, with the same views photographed in 2014. One of the photos is of a soldier standing next to a town water fountain in Sainte-Marie-du-Mont on June 12, 1944. He has a rifle slung over his shoulder, and in my ignorance of military ordnance I do not know what it is. It caught my attention because it appears to have a folding stock of sorts. Or, are my eyes just not seeing what is there? So, can anyone identify this for me? Thanks...
Photographs by Galerie Bilderwelt/Getty and Peter Macdiarmid/Getty
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