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U.S.S. Iowa, machine gun - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

U.S.S. Iowa, machine gun - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Public domain photograph of American ship, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

U.S.S. Vixen, Maxim machine gun and gunner Smith

U.S.S. Vixen, Maxim machine gun and gunner Smith

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110th Machine Gun Battalion, Major J.H. Washburn, commanding, Camp McClellan, Ala., Feb. 18th, 1918

110th Machine Gun Battalion, Major J.H. Washburn, commanding, Camp McC...

J228020 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright claimant's address: Montgomery, Ala. Copyright deposit; Richards Film Service, Inc.; February 25, 1918; DLC/PP-1918:45726.

German position of resistance in the Argonne Forest, artillery & machine gun nests, captured by the American Forces, 1918

German position of resistance in the Argonne Forest, artillery & machi...

Photographer's address : 613 14th St., Wash., D.C. No. 181. Gift; Breckenridge Long; 1953.

[Machine Gun Company E. outskirts of city

[Machine Gun Company E. outskirts of city

Picryl description: Public domain image of military personnel, conscription, group of people in uniform, armed forces, infantry, war activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Aug. 26, day of big bomb in Jaffa. Military search for arms. Black Watch at Citadel with machine gun car, searching busses [i.e., buses] [Jerusalem]

Aug. 26, day of big bomb in Jaffa. Military search for arms. Black Wat...

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Chrysler tank arsenal. Individual mobile arsenals are the outpost of the huge Chrysler tank arsenal on the outskirts of Detroit. A worker is here installing a machine gun on an M-3 tank, one of the twenty-eight ton giants which mount four machine guns, two .50 calibre and two .30 calibre, a .75 mm. gun and a 37 mm. anti-aircraft gun, as well as an assortment of hand machine guns, and other weapons for use by the crew

Chrysler tank arsenal. Individual mobile arsenals are the outpost of t...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

With an airfield security detachment in Hawaii. If jungle fighting becomes necessary, the members of an airfeild security detachment in Hawaii will be prepared. Shown above with machine gun (left to right) are: Private Wilfred Smith, Scotland Neck, North Carolina and Private Floyd Philpot, Jr., Hogansville, Georgia

With an airfield security detachment in Hawaii. If jungle fighting bec...

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Ready for trouble from the conning tower of the United States submarine. A crew swings a fifty caliber machine gun skyward to safeguard the underseas craft against a possible surprise air attack. Submarine rarely comes to surface during daylight hours. The man in the left background is scanning the horizon through binoculars

Ready for trouble from the conning tower of the United States submarin...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a navy artillery gun, cannon, ship weapon, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Conversion. Watch cases to war production. Skill and experience back the production drive. A die maker in a converted Kentucky watch case factory brings rare ability to the plant's new job of making compass cases, fuse baffles, machine gun parts and other war essentials. Wadsworth Watch Company, Louisville, Kentucky

Conversion. Watch cases to war production. Skill and experience back t...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Women in war. Machine gun production operators. She carries a torch for the men of America's armed forces! Blonde, twenty-one-year-old Elne Nigholm brazes bolt latch releases for the Army's machine guns in a Midwest plant which has been converted from the manufacture of spark plugs to production of war materials. Two thousand women now work in this plant, with more to be added as production increases. A.C. Spark Plugs

Women in war. Machine gun production operators. She carries a torch fo...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a woman working, women labor, 1940s, economic conditions, home front, world war two, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Fort Riley, Kansas. Part of a machine gun brigade on a field problem

Fort Riley, Kansas. Part of a machine gun brigade on a field problem

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Fort Riley, Kansas. Setting up a thirty caliber water-cooled machine gun during a field problem of the cavalry

Fort Riley, Kansas. Setting up a thirty caliber water-cooled machine g...

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Fort Riley, Kansas. A machine gun unit in action during a sham battle

Fort Riley, Kansas. A machine gun unit in action during a sham battle

Public domain photograph of United States agriculture in the 1930s, country, farmer, farm, great depression, migration, dust bowl refugees, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Fort Benning. Tommy gunners, armored forces. The tank soldier finds many chores for the Thompson sub-machine gun, familiarly known as the Tommy gun

Fort Benning. Tommy gunners, armored forces. The tank soldier finds ma...

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MARINE CORPS, U.S.N. MACHINE GUN UNIT DEMONSTRATION AT BALL PARK

MARINE CORPS, U.S.N. MACHINE GUN UNIT DEMONSTRATION AT BALL PARK

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Jesse Rhodes Waller, A.O.M., third class, tries out a 30-calibre machine gun he has just installed on a Navy plane, Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas

Jesse Rhodes Waller, A.O.M., third class, tries out a 30-calibre machi...

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It's an intricate operation - installing a 30-calibre machine gun in a Navy PBY plane, but not too tricky for Jesse Rhodes Waller, Corpus Christi, Texas. He's a Georgia man who's been in the Navy 5-1/2 years. At the Naval Air Base he sees that the flying ships are kept in tip-top shape. Waller is an aviation ordnance mate

It's an intricate operation - installing a 30-calibre machine gun in a...

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Good man, good gun: a private of the armored forces does some practice shooting with a 30-calibre Browning machine gun, Fort Knox, Ky. The gun is mounted on a pedestal for anti-aircraft work

Good man, good gun: a private of the armored forces does some practice...

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Armorer placing fifty caliber machine gun bullets in magazine. Lake Muroc, California

Armorer placing fifty caliber machine gun bullets in magazine. Lake Mu...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of workers, war production, aircraft, airfield, the 1930s -1940s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Fort Riley, Kansas. Machine gun crew of jeep

Fort Riley, Kansas. Machine gun crew of jeep

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Fort Riley, Kansas. Soldiers of a cavalry machine gun platoon going over an obstacle during a field problem

Fort Riley, Kansas. Soldiers of a cavalry machine gun platoon going ov...

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Fort Riley, Kansas. Standard bearer of a machine gun platoon of the cavalry

Fort Riley, Kansas. Standard bearer of a machine gun platoon of the ca...

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Fort Riley, Kansas. Soldiers with a pack horse carrying a machine gun

Fort Riley, Kansas. Soldiers with a pack horse carrying a machine gun

Public domain photograph of United States agriculture in the 1930s, country, farmer, farm, great depression, migration, dust bowl refugees, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Naval air base, Corpus Christi, Texas. It's an intricate operation installing a 30-caliber machine gun in a Navy PBY plane, but not too tricky for Jesse Rhodes Waller. He's a Georgia man who's been in the Navy five and a half years. At the naval air base in Corpus Christi, Texas, he sees that flying ships are kept in tip-top shape. Waller is an aviation ordnance mate

Naval air base, Corpus Christi, Texas. It's an intricate operation ins...

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Fort Benning machine gunners. A couple of experts at slowing up the Axis timetable. These two members of a machine gun crew doing post-graduate work at Fort Benning, Georgia have a fast, accurate piece, and they know how to use it

Fort Benning machine gunners. A couple of experts at slowing up the Ax...

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Lake Muroc, California. Armorer placing fifty caliber machine gun bullets in a magazine

Lake Muroc, California. Armorer placing fifty caliber machine gun bull...

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Don't be a dope! Handle equipment right When the Stukas begin to attack ain't the time to make up for a lack of cleaning your gun - which won't shoot at a Hun with a month's gummy dust on its back! Clean it every 3 days / / Warrant Off. Will Eisner, Ordnance.

Don't be a dope! Handle equipment right When the Stukas begin to attac...

Poster shows Joe Dope being shot through by enemy fire as he oils his machine gun.

[U.S. Marine sits in a foxhole and points a machine gun towards Beirut, Lebanon, in the distance] / [TOH].

[U.S. Marine sits in a foxhole and points a machine gun towards Beirut...

U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet available for reference purposes.

Naval Air Station Barbers Point, Battery-Machine Gun Positions, South of Point Cruz Road & west of Coral Sea Road, Ewa, Honolulu County, HI

Naval Air Station Barbers Point, Battery-Machine Gun Positions, South ...

Survey number: HABS HI-279-AC Public domain photograph - historical image of Hawaii, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mexican Revolution - 1916. Machine gun platoon of the 16th Infantry - gun inspection and firing near Casa Grande, Mex.

Mexican Revolution - 1916. Machine gun platoon of the 16th Infantry - ...

213036 U.S. Copyright Office. Photographed by Underwood and Underwood. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Machine guns; Mex. C-G- region; Army, US Infantry 1916;... More

MARINE CORPS RIFLE RANGE, WINTHROP, MD. GEN. BARNETT TESTING COLT'S AUTOMATIC MACHINE GUN

MARINE CORPS RIFLE RANGE, WINTHROP, MD. GEN. BARNETT TESTING COLT'S AU...

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ARMY, U.S. MACHINE GUN TESTS - Public domain photograph

ARMY, U.S. MACHINE GUN TESTS - Public domain photograph

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Chairman of Senate Military Affairs Committee inspects Fort Meyer troops. Washington, D.C., Feb. 11. Senator Morris Sheppard, of Texas, Chairman of the Senate Military Affairs Committee, inspects the Machine Gun Unit of the 3rd Cavalry, USA, at Fort Meyer, Virginia He is shown with Col. J.M. Wainwright, Commandant at Fort Meyer,. 2/11/38

Chairman of Senate Military Affairs Committee inspects Fort Meyer troo...

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Chrysler tank arsenal. Individual mobile arsenals are the outpost of the huge Chrysler tank arsenal on the outskirts of Detroit. A worker is here installing a machine gun on an M-3 tank, one of the twenty-eight ton giants which mount four machine guns, two .50 calibre and two .30 calibre, a .75 mm. gun and a 37 mm. anti-aircraft gun, as well as an assortment of hand machine guns, and other weapons for use by the crew

Chrysler tank arsenal. Individual mobile arsenals are the outpost of t...

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Oil burners to machine gun parts. Painted olive-drab, this oil burner awaits shipment to American armed forces--somewhere in the field. Converted to a large degree to production of precision gun parts, the factory which manufactures these oil burners ships most of them either to the Army or abroad under lend-lease contracts. Reif-Rexoil Company, Buffalo, New York

Oil burners to machine gun parts. Painted olive-drab, this oil burner ...

Public domain photograph of New York in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Fort Riley, Kansas. Soldiers of a cavalry machine gun platoon going over an obstacle during a field problem

Fort Riley, Kansas. Soldiers of a cavalry machine gun platoon going ov...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a horse, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Women in war. Machine gun production operators. She carries a torch for the men of America's armed forces! Blonde, twenty-one-year-old Elne Nigholm brazes bolt latch releases for the Army's machine guns in a Midwest plant which has been converted from the manufacture of spark plugs to production of war materials. Two thousand women now work in this plant, with more to be added as production increases. A.C. Spark Plugs

Women in war. Machine gun production operators. She carries a torch fo...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a woman working, women labor, 1940s, economic conditions, home front, world war two, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Batawa, Ontario, Canada. A Czechoslovak worker, former shoemaker, working at a multiple machine gun in a Czechoslovak factory which was originally founded to produce shoes, but which now manufactures guns

Batawa, Ontario, Canada. A Czechoslovak worker, former shoemaker, work...

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Fort Riley, Kansas. Cavalrymen manning a 50 caliber machine gun

Fort Riley, Kansas. Cavalrymen manning a 50 caliber machine gun

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Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Sergeant Williams leading a machine gun squad in a maneuver

Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Sergeant Williams leading a machine gun sq...

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Buffalo, New York. In the finishing department of Republic Steel. Gladys Chase (left), former beautician, using an acetylene torch to burn defects from a twenty-foot steel billet which will later be shaped into a machine gun barrel. It takes six months to learn this process, which is called scarfing

Buffalo, New York. In the finishing department of Republic Steel. Glad...

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Machine gun in front line trench

Machine gun in front line trench

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Culv. Machine Gun Detachment - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Culv. Machine Gun Detachment - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domai...

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Hitler would like this man to go home and forget about the war. A good American non-com at the side machine gun of a huge YB-17 bomber is a man who knows his business and works hard at it

Hitler would like this man to go home and forget about the war. A good...

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U.S. Negro troops on way to Liberia. The Naval armed guard on a Liberia bound transport stages a gun drill with a 4 inch deck gun and a heavy anti-aircraft machine gun. The Negro troops, members of a highly trained engineer unit of the U.S. Army, made the trip to Africa without incident

U.S. Negro troops on way to Liberia. The Naval armed guard on a Liberi...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a ship, docks, navy, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of a man holding a television. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a man holding a television. Office of War I...

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Fort Knox. Browning machine gun. Good man, good gun. A private of the armored forces, in training at Fort Knox, Kentucky, does some practice shooting with a 30-caliber Browning machine gun. The gun is mounted on a pedestal for anti-aircraft work

Fort Knox. Browning machine gun. Good man, good gun. A private of the ...

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Fort Benning machine gunners. These boys have learned some tricks to show the Axis. This machine gun crew is finishing a sharpening-up course at Fort Benning, Georgia

Fort Benning machine gunners. These boys have learned some tricks to s...

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Oil burners to machine gun parts. A battery of oil burners ready for shipment. Now undergoing conversion to production of machine gun parts for Uncle Sam's army, this plant has only a small percentage of its equipment still producing oil burners. Those still rolling off the assembly lines are sent primarily to U.S. Army agencies or shipped abroad under lend-lease contracts. Reif-Rexoil Company, Buffalo, New York

Oil burners to machine gun parts. A battery of oil burners ready for s...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a basement, underground, lobby, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Fort Knox. Browning machine gun. Good man, good gun. A private of the armored forces, in training at Fort Knox, Kentucky, does some practice shooting with a 30-caliber Browning machine gun. The gun is mounted on a pedestal for anti-aircraft work

Fort Knox. Browning machine gun. Good man, good gun. A private of the ...

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Fort Riley, Kansas. A machine gun unit setting up their gun during a sham battle

Fort Riley, Kansas. A machine gun unit setting up their gun during a s...

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Women in war. Machine gun production operators. This capable young woman is making an important contribution to America's war effort. Employed by a Midwest plant, converted from the production of spark plugs to machine guns, she's one of many skilled women milling-machine operators who are producing weapons for America's armed forces. Here, she's checking a slot she has just milled in a gun part. A.C. Spark Plugs

Women in war. Machine gun production operators. This capable young wom...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a woman working, women labor, 1940s, economic conditions, home front, world war two, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Troops at a U.S. Army airbase in New Hebrides manning a heavy machine gun. Left to right: Private First Class Elliott Moore, Trenton, New Jersey; Corporal Raymond Elliott, Jaspar, Alabama; Corporal Johnny Jackson, Augusta, Georgia; Private First Class Shade Mackee, Jr., Ashland, Alabama

Troops at a U.S. Army airbase in New Hebrides manning a heavy machine ...

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Lewis machine gun crew, Camp Mills

Lewis machine gun crew, Camp Mills

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U.S. Army 1911 maneuvers in Texas: Maxim machine gun & crew

U.S. Army 1911 maneuvers in Texas: Maxim machine gun & crew

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8th Machine Gun Cavalry in action on Mexican border--Mexican-U.S. campaign after Villa, 1916

8th Machine Gun Cavalry in action on Mexican border--Mexican-U.S. camp...

J213048 U.S. Copyright Office. Public domain photograph - New Mexico, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

MARINE CORPS, U.S.N. MACHINE GUN UNIT DEMONSTRATION AT BALL PARK. DANIELS AND GEN. BARNETT

MARINE CORPS, U.S.N. MACHINE GUN UNIT DEMONSTRATION AT BALL PARK. DANI...

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MARINE CORPS RIFLE RANGE, WINTHROP, MD. GEN. BARNETT TESTING COLT'S AUTOMATIC MACHINE GUN

MARINE CORPS RIFLE RANGE, WINTHROP, MD. GEN. BARNETT TESTING COLT'S AU...

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118th Machine Gun Battalion, Major George R. Seavy, commanding, Camp Wheeler, Ga., Feb. 7th, 1918; Battalion organized Sept. 30th, 1917

118th Machine Gun Battalion, Major George R. Seavy, commanding, Camp W...

J22787[...] U.S. Copyright Office Copyright claimant's address: Montgomery, Ala. Battalion companies labeled on image. Copyright deposit; Richards Film Service, Inc.; February 18, 1918; DLC/PP-1918:45626.

Machine Gun Co., Chicago Regiment of Colored Soldiers, 8th Illinois Infantry

Machine Gun Co., Chicago Regiment of Colored Soldiers, 8th Illinois In...

J239229 U.S. Copyright Office Stereo copyrighted by the Keystone View Co. No. 19172. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Army, US 8th Ill.; Machine guns; Military... More

Machine gun pointed . scopes, etc. overlooking city toward the east out through opening in wall from roof of Tower of David, Dome of Rock seen in distance

Machine gun pointed . scopes, etc. overlooking city toward the east ou...

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Families of Nationalist demonstrators who were killed in the Ponce massacre, standing before the Nationalist headquarters. Note machine gun bullets in wall. Ponce, Puerto Rico

Families of Nationalist demonstrators who were killed in the Ponce mas...

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Detroit, Michigan. Conference between U.S. Army ordnance and washing machine industry officials to determine the ability of manufacturers to produce parts needed by the Army. After inspecting samples, blueprints and prices were discussed. Inspecting a machine gun

Detroit, Michigan. Conference between U.S. Army ordnance and washing m...

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Women in war. Machine gun production operators. A woman's place is on the production line in this Midwest plant which has been converted from the manufacture of spark plugs to machine guns. Elsie M. Terry, one of 2,000 women employed here, is a skilled milling-machine operator who is making an important contribution to the war effort. She's making guns for America's armed forces. A.C. Spark Plugs

Women in war. Machine gun production operators. A woman's place is on ...

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Women at war (Mrs. Smuda). Tastes good! After tapering fifty-millimeter cartidge shells for America's machine gun battallions, you'd think Mrs. Smuda would be ready for bed. But she's still full of pep and ready to fix dinner for the daughter, son-in-law and grandchild who live with her. This time it's stew, based on a recipe from her native Poland

Women at war (Mrs. Smuda). Tastes good! After tapering fifty-millimete...

Picryl description: Public domain image of food, dinner, grocery store, eating, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Oil burners to machine gun parts. Oil burners are the normal product of this Eastern factory now undergoing conversion to production of small precision parts for machine guns. This milling machine has not yet been converted to the war effort and is still turning out parts for burners. Reif-Rexoil Company, Buffalo, New York

Oil burners to machine gun parts. Oil burners are the normal product o...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a machine, industrial equipment, engine, generator, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). Construction of Douglas Dam. "Big Pete" Ramagos, rigger at the TVA's new Douglas Dam on the French Broad River, served overseas in the last war, with the 90th Division, 345th machine gun company. He is a Greek who speaks with a Southern drawl. This dam will be 161 feet high and 1,682 feet long, with a 31,600 acre reservoir area extending forty-three miles upstream. With a useful storage capacity of approximately 1,330,000 acre-feet, this reservoir will make possible the addition of nearly 100,000 kilowatts of continuous power to the TVA in dry years and almost 170,000 kilowatts in the average year

Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). Construction of Douglas Dam. "Big Pe...

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Conversion. Floor waxer plant. Now making machine gun cover plates, this machine was converted from a line shaft drive to motor drive when a small Eastern manufacturing company converted its product from floor waxers to small parts for war equipment. Unable to purchase new equipment for his defense work, the owner bought second-hand equipment and remodelled it. Delivery of first orders was made thirty days after contract, an amazingly short time considering that conversion of the machinery took two weeks of it. Floorola Products Inc., York, Pennsylvania

Conversion. Floor waxer plant. Now making machine gun cover plates, th...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, workshop, workers, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Fort Knox. M-3 tank crews. This capable member of a M-3 tank crew in training at Fort Knox, Kentucky, is a handy man with a machine gun. The Fort Knox school for tank crews has graduated many men who are now ready to meet the Axis on our far-flung battle lines and on more than equal terms

Fort Knox. M-3 tank crews. This capable member of a M-3 tank crew in t...

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Tennessee Valley Authority. Construction of Douglas Dam. "Big Pete" Ramogos, rigger at TVA's new Douglas Dam on the French Broad River. Served overseas in the last war with the ninetieth Division, 345th Machine Gun Company. A Greek who speaks with a Southern drawl. This dam will be 161 feet high and 1,682 feet long with 31,600 acre reservoir area extending forty-three miles upstream. With a useful storage capacity of approximately 1,330,000 acre-feet this reservoir will make possible the addition of nearly 100,000 kilowatts of continuous power to the TVA system in dry years and almost 170,000 kilowatts in the average year

Tennessee Valley Authority. Construction of Douglas Dam. "Big Pete" R...

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Fort Benning. Tommy gunners, armored forces. The tank soldier finds many chores for the Thompson sub-machine gun, familiarly known as the Tommy gun

Fort Benning. Tommy gunners, armored forces. The tank soldier finds ma...

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Conversion. Watch cases to war production. Conversion, all the day. The fourty-five star flag above a worker in a converted watch case factory marks a soldier of the firing line of '98, now a soldier of the production line of '42. The plant makes small carbine and machine gun parts, compass cases and radio parts for our armed forces. Wadsworth Watch Company, Louisville, Kentucky

Conversion. Watch cases to war production. Conversion, all the day. Th...

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Langley Field, Virginia. YB-17 bombardment squadron. Hitler would like this man to go home and forget about the war. A good American non-com at the side machine gun of a huge YB-17 bomber is a man who knows his business and works hard at it

Langley Field, Virginia. YB-17 bombardment squadron. Hitler would like...

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Camp Lejeune, New River, North Carolina. Engineers of the 51st Composite Battalion, U.S. Marine Corps, firing a thirty calibre machine gun on the range

Camp Lejeune, New River, North Carolina. Engineers of the 51st Composi...

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B-29 Super Fortress machine gun ammunition

B-29 Super Fortress machine gun ammunition

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Naval Air Station Barbers Point, Battery-Machine Gun Positions, South of Point Cruz Road & west of Coral Sea Road, Ewa, Honolulu County, HI

Naval Air Station Barbers Point, Battery-Machine Gun Positions, South ...

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Machine gun school - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Machine gun school - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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MARINE CORPS RIFLE RANGE, LEWIS MACHINE GUN TESTS

MARINE CORPS RIFLE RANGE, LEWIS MACHINE GUN TESTS

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MARINE CORPS, U.S.N. MACHINE GUN UNIT DEMONSTRATION AT BALL PARK

MARINE CORPS, U.S.N. MACHINE GUN UNIT DEMONSTRATION AT BALL PARK

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MARINE CORPS, U.S.N. MACHINE GUN UNIT DEMONSTRATION AT BALL PARK. DANIELS AND GEN. BARNETT

MARINE CORPS, U.S.N. MACHINE GUN UNIT DEMONSTRATION AT BALL PARK. DANI...

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ARMY, U.S. MACHINE GUN TESTS - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

ARMY, U.S. MACHINE GUN TESTS - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domai...

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Jesse Rhodes Waller, A.O.M., third class, tries out a 30-calibre machine gun he has just installed in a Navy plane, Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas

Jesse Rhodes Waller, A.O.M., third class, tries out a 30-calibre machi...

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With an airfield security detachment in Hawaii. Manning a machine gun under cover are two members of an airfeild security detachment in Hawaii. Left to right are: Corporal Alvin J. Comeaux, Lafayette, Louisiana, and Corporal Ellis Smith, Birmingham, Alabama

With an airfield security detachment in Hawaii. Manning a machine gun ...

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Lend-Lease to Britain. An American-made machine gun is unpacked and assembled at an ordnance depot in England, having been shipped from the United States

Lend-Lease to Britain. An American-made machine gun is unpacked and as...

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Fort Benning machine gunners. A couple of experts at slowing up the Axis timetable. These two members of a machine gun crew doing post-graduate work at Fort Benning, Georgia have a fast, accurate piece, and they know how to use it

Fort Benning machine gunners. A couple of experts at slowing up the Ax...

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Fort Riley, Kansas. Cavalry machine gun unit dismounting to get guns into action

Fort Riley, Kansas. Cavalry machine gun unit dismounting to get guns i...

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Fort Benning. Tommy gunners, armored forces. The tank soldier finds many chores for the Thompson sub-machine gun, familiarly known as the Tommy gun

Fort Benning. Tommy gunners, armored forces. The tank soldier finds ma...

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Production. Lockheed P-38 pursuit planes. An armorer in a large Western aircraft plant tests machine gun controls in the partly-finished nose section of a new Lockheed P-38 pursuit plane. This section is now ready for the operation of "mating" it to the center section. The ship will travel down the main assembly line to receive engines, wings, landing gear and other essential equipment

Production. Lockheed P-38 pursuit planes. An armorer in a large Wester...

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Fort Riley, Kansas. A machine gun unit in action during a sham battle

Fort Riley, Kansas. A machine gun unit in action during a sham battle

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Mrs. Smuda's son. The man with the gun. It's Private Edwin Smuda at army camp "somewhere in the South." In addition to being a prize fighting man, one of Private Smuda's claims to fame is his widowed, fifty-five-year-old mother who works six days a week in the Frankford, Pennsylvania arsenal tapering cartridges for 50mm machine gun shells. Mrs. Smuda is one of that great army of American women who work just as hard for victory as their sons on the front lines

Mrs. Smuda's son. The man with the gun. It's Private Edwin Smuda at ar...

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Fort Riley, Kansas. A jeep of a mechanized cavalry reconnaissance unit carrying a thirty caliber machine gun during a field problem

Fort Riley, Kansas. A jeep of a mechanized cavalry reconnaissance unit...

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United States Army air force gunner Sergeant William Watts of Alexandria, Louisiana, training machine gun on the enemy during a aerial fight with German planes somewhere in the European war theater. Behind him may be seen the legs of another gunner operating his weapon from the side of the plane

United States Army air force gunner Sergeant William Watts of Alexandr...

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Machine gun at Brooklyn Navy Yard

Machine gun at Brooklyn Navy Yard

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Plattsburgh Air Force Base, M-60 Machine Gun Range, Off Perimeter Road in Firearms Training Area, Plattsburgh, Clinton County, NY

Plattsburgh Air Force Base, M-60 Machine Gun Range, Off Perimeter Road...

Significance: Building 3430 provided space for automatic arms firing range. Survey number: HAER NY-326-CU

Dist. soldiers returning, 6/7/19; 312th Machine Gun battalion

Dist. soldiers returning, 6/7/19; 312th Machine Gun battalion

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German machine gun in action - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

German machine gun in action - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domai...

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Working German gun against Russians

Working German gun against Russians

Photograph shows German soldiers with machine gun during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012)

MARINE CORPS, U.S.N. MACHINE GUN UNIT DEMONSTRATION AT BALL PARK

MARINE CORPS, U.S.N. MACHINE GUN UNIT DEMONSTRATION AT BALL PARK

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MARINE CORPS, U.S.N. MACHINE GUN UNIT DEMONSTRATION AT BALL PARK

MARINE CORPS, U.S.N. MACHINE GUN UNIT DEMONSTRATION AT BALL PARK

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