56 items in this album on 3 pages.
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US Marine M2 Browning machine gun crew, Bougainville, Solomon Islands, 1943-1944 | Armorers loading belts of .50 caliber ammunition into the four ammo trays in one wingtip of a P-47 thunderbolt, date and location unknown. | Four Browning M2 .50 caliber machine guns mounted in staggered positions in the wing of a P-47 Thunderbolt, date and location unknown. | Weary US Marines taking a cigarette break, Namur, Kwajalein, Marshall Islands, early Feb 1944; note 37mm anti-tank gun and Browning M2 machine gun |
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US Army troops off the Kwajalein invasion beach, Marshall Islands, 1 Feb 1944 | Armorer cleaning the bore of a 75mm cannon mounted in a B-25G Mitchell bomber of the 820th Bomb Squadron, Tarawa, Gilbert Islands; Mar-Apr 1944 | The helm of PT-295, a Higgins 78-foot motor torpedo boat, 1944. Note the mast in the lowered position, two twin Browning .50 caliber machine gun mounts, and a 20mm Oerlikon gun forward. | Princess Elizabeth of the United Kingdom christening the B-17G Fortress ‘Rose of York’ by breaking a bottle of English cider against the nose at RAF Thurleigh, Bedfordshire, England, 6 Jul 1944. |
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US Army combat photographer Staff Sergeant Andrew Yusko, Jr. posing with a M2 0.50 caliber machine gun aboard a B-24 Liberator bomber in Australia, 8 Jul 1944 | US Navy officers train in ordnance maintenance at Jacksonville, Florida, United States, Jul 12, 1944. In this case, they are installing a Browning M2 .50 caliber machine gun into the right wing of an F4U Corsair fighter. | Armorers SSgt George Townsend and Sgt George Barker make ready the dorsal quad Browning .50 caliber machine guns of a P-61 Black Widow night fighter, Saipan, 19 Jul 1944. | M8 Greyhound armored car of US Army 102nd Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron passing under the Arc de Triomphe, Paris, France, 29 Aug 1944 |
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American soldiers with Browning M2HB machine gun in a town in Normandy, France, 1944 | US Marines fighting on Peleliu, Palau Islands, 1944 | Ordinancemen load .50 caliber ammunition into the wing mounts of an F6F Hellcat while the wings are folded aboard the USS Enterprise southeast of Okinawa, 10 Oct 1944. | General Douglas MacArthur traveling by PT-Boat across Leyte Gulf off Tacloban, Philippines aboard PT-525, an Elco 80-foot PT-Boat of Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 36 (MTBRon-36), 24 Oct 1944. |
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PT-131 between PT-152 and PT-130, all Eclo 80-foot Motor Torpedo Boats of MTBRon-7, alongside tender USS Wachapreague in Liloan Bay, Philippines preparing to patrol the Surigao Strait, 24 Oct 1944. | PT-370 of MTB Squadron 18 on patrol in the Philippines, circa Nov 1944. PT-370 was a 70-foot Canadian boat and only four such boats were built. All four were outfitted as Elco 80s despite being 10 feet shorter. | US Army anti-tank infantry searching for the position of a German machine gun that had fired on their vehicle, the Netherlands, 4 Nov 1944 | PT-196, an Elco 80-footer of Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 12 (MTBRon 12) astern of PT Boat tender USS Wachapreague, Philippines, late 1944. Note the name “Purple Shaft†just below the windscreen. |
56 items in this album on 3 pages.