An American captain named Arthur R. Trelease, shows Soviet soldiers an M3 "grease" submachinegun at Torgau, Germany, on the river Elbe. The Russians are offering up wine in return; April, 1945.

Nice gun, let's drink to it

Forcemen of 5-2, First Special Service Force, with an M41 Johnson light machine gun, Anzio beachhead, Italy, ca. 20-27 April 1944.

L-R): Canadian Pvts. W.P. Lelievre and L.E. Roussy

(U.S./Canadian First Special Service Forces (FSSF)
 read more here - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Special_Service_Force

The Johnson Model 41 LMG had a 21-inch barrel, 42-inch overall length and a trim 12.5-lb. weight. The LMG functioned by delayed recoil and featured a nearly straight-line design to minimize muzzle climb. The Johnson fire selector was on the left - up for safe, back for full-auto and forward for semi-auto. On full-automatic, the gun fired from an open bolt allowing cooling, but, flip to semi-auto and the gun fired from a closed bolt so there was no loss of accuracy from the action slamming forward to fire.
 The single column magazine held twenty .30-06 cartridges. A spring steel gate held them in until the magazine was inserted in the well on the left side of the gun. Insertion lifted the magazine’s gate, allowing the cartridges to push into the gun and up against the feed lips. The magazine well was long enough to let the shooter load five more cartridges through the trade-mark loading gate on the right.
 Read more here - http://www.sadefensejournal.com/wp/?p=3073

(Photo source - Library and Archives Canada - 3378973)

(Colourised by Jecinci)
taken from fb

 Johnson Model 41 LMG 

The 442nd is also known for accomplishing what no other U.S. Army unit had done before: the capture of an enemy submarine. A Nisei soldier noticed what looked like an animal in the water but upon closer look it was actually a one-man German submarine. The German and the submarine were captured and handed over to the U.S. Navy. On March 23, 1945, the 442nd Regimental Combat Team sailed back to Italy and returned to the Gothic Line. 
