Archive Photo of the Month: July 1998
By Robert Bruce
From the Robert Bruce Collection
Firing Practice: British Army Officers instructing members of the U.S. Army’s 306th Machine Gun Battalion, 77th division, in use of the Vickers Machine Gun. Due to severe shortages of US machineguns and US caliber .30-06 ammunition, the American Expeditionary Force was almost exclusively armed with British and French weapons. Credit:US Army Signal Corps (USA) and Robert Bruce. Copyright 1997 (ROBERT BRUCE PHOTOGRAPHY).
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This article first appeared in Small Arms Review V1N10 (July 1998) |
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