Getting a lift when you could
These four GIs represent the informal passengers of armored warfare: infantrymen perched on a vehicle, smoking and waiting while the next move is decided. Their mixture of rifles, a Thompson and a BAR gives the group the feel of a small body of troops travelling together.
Riding on the outside of a tank offered transport, not an armored passenger compartment. That distinction gives an apparently restful scene a harder edge. The set is about the intervals in a campaign, when men used whatever space was available before climbing down to continue on foot.
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