2,411 items in this album on 121 pages.
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| MG 34 machine gun mounted as an anti-aircraft weapon, 1940s | Parabellum P08 'Luger' handgun, circa 1940s |
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| Partially camouflaged Chinese Type 24 machine gun position, China, circa 1940s, photo 1 of 2 | Partially camouflaged Chinese Type 24 machine gun position, China, circa 1940s, photo 2 of 2 |
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| Portrait of a Japanese Army soldier with Type 38 rifle and other gear, circa 1940s | Sailors conducting bayonet drill aboard HMS Rodney, circa 1940 |
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| Sailors conducting bayonet drill aboard HMS Rodney, Firth of Forth, Scotland, United Kingdom, 1940 | Simo Häyhä posing with his honorary M/28-30 rifle, 1939-1940 |
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| Soldiers drill at a 155mm coastal defense gun protecting the Borinquen Field, Puerto Rico, 1940. | Type 92 battalion guns, circa 1940s |
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| Type 95 75mm field gun, circa 1940s | 2-inch mortar team of UK 2nd Warwickshire Regiment at Rumegies, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France, 22 Jan 1940 |
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| Finnish soldier with a LS/26 light machine gun, Finland, Feb 1940 | Finnish soldiers with Lahti-Saloranta M/26 light machine gun, Kuhmo, Finland, Feb 1940 |
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| Admiral Graf Spee's Number Four 15cm/55 gun mount, second gun in the forward port side group, 2 Feb 1940 | Admiral Graf Spee's Number Two 10.5cm/65 twin anti-aircraft gun mount, port side, amidships, 2 Feb 1940 |
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| Admiral Graf Spee's starboard Number One 105mm/65 anti-aircraft gun mount, 2 Feb 1940 | Finnish Army machine gun crew near Lemetti, Karjala, Finland (now Pitkyarantsky, Russia), 21 Feb 1940; note Maxim M32/33 machine gun |
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| Men of D Company, 2nd Sherwood Foresters, UK 1st Division in a forward trench near Roches, France, 1 Apr 1940; Lance Corporal L. J. Harris seen shaving | Danish machine gun team gathered for a photo hours before engaging with German invaders, Bredevad, Denmark, 9 Apr 1940; two of the men died later that day; note Madsen light machine gun |
2,411 items in this album on 121 pages.
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